Telescopes

Mopra, a 22m millimetre wave telescope sited in the Warrumbungles National Park, near Coonabarabran in NSW, Australia, is being used to gather the data on the CO J=1-0 emission lines. It is a part of the Australia Telescope National Facility.

The 4m Nanten2 telescope is on the 5,000m elevation Pampa la Bola in the Chilean altiplano. It is being used to measure lines of neutral carbon as well as excited CO. It is run by an international university consortium with partners in Australia, Chile, Germany, Japan, South Korea and Switzerland, led by the Universities of Nagoya and Cologne.

The 80cm Stratospheric Terahertz Observatory (STO) will be a balloon-borne telescope flown on a "super-pressure" long duration balloon from McMurdo, Antarctica. It will survey the southern Galactic plane for the ionised carbon and nitrogen lines. It is shown here in its previous guise as the Flare Genesis telescope. It is led by the University of Arizona, with a wide partnership of national and international orgnisations.