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.
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TABLE V.B.1-1 SOME REPRESENTATIVE THz ASTRONOMY FACILITIES Submillimeter Teraherz telescopes |
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Location |
Size |
Name |
Website |
Ground Based Telescopes |
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Mauna Kea |
15 m |
James Clerk Maxwell (JCMT) |
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10 m |
Caltech Submillimeter Observatory (CSO) |
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8 x 6m |
Submillimeter Array (SMA) |
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Boston |
1.2 m |
The Cfa |
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Goernergrat (Switzerland) |
3 m |
KOSMA |
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Llano de Chajnantor (Chile)(an NRAO telescope) |
64 x 12m |
Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) |
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Graham University of Arizona |
10m |
Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie |
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South Pole |
1.7 m |
Center for Astrophysical Research in Antarctica(CARA) |
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Airborne Telescopes |
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Stratospheric Observatory of Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) |
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Space Based Telescopes |
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Submillimeter-Wave Astronomy Satellite (SWAS) |
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Herschel |