V.B.1. Some telescope facilities

Table V.B.1-1 lists a number of major millimeter, submillimeter, and far infrared telescope facilities. These include ground, aircraft, and space based telescopes. Especially noteworthy for the future of the field are the large new systems in the active development stage: Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) (http://www.alma.nrao.edu/) at Llano de Chajnantor in Chile, Herschel (FIRST) (http://herschel.esac.esa.int) and SOFIA, a general purpose observing platform in a converted 747 (http://www.nasa.gov/sofia/). By the historical standards of the spectral region, these represent an enormous investment and are a testimony both to the importance of the science that drives these projects and the technological advances that have made them possible.

 

 

 

TABLE V.B.1-1 SOME REPRESENTATIVE THz ASTRONOMY FACILITIES

Submillimeter Teraherz telescopes

 

Location

Size

Name

Website

Ground Based Telescopes

 

 

 

Mauna Kea

15 m 

James Clerk Maxwell (JCMT)

http://www.jach.hawaii.edu/JCMT/

 

10 m 

Caltech Submillimeter Observatory (CSO)

http://www.submm.caltech.edu/cso/

 

8 x 6m 

Submillimeter Array (SMA)

http://sma-www.harvard.edu

Boston

1.2 m

The Cfa 

http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/cfa/mmw/mini.html

Goernergrat 

(Switzerland)

3 m 

KOSMA

http://www.ph1.uni-koeln.de/kosma

Llano de Chajnantor

(Chile)(an NRAO telescope)

64 x 12m

Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA)

http://www.alma.nrao.edu/

 Graham 

University of Arizona

10m 

Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie 

http://aro.as.arizona.edu/index.htm

South Pole 

1.7 m 

Center for Astrophysical Research in Antarctica(CARA) 

http://astro.uchicago.edu/cara/

Airborne Telescopes

 

 

 

 

 

Stratospheric Observatory of Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) 

http://www.sofia.usra.edu/

Space Based Telescopes

 

 

 

 

 

Submillimeter-Wave Astronomy Satellite (SWAS) 

http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/swas/

 

 

Herschel

http://herschel.esac.esa.int

 

 

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