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Submillimeter
facilities
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| Ground based | |||||||||
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Name
|
Site
|
Organizations
|
diameter
|
Year
|
Altitude
m |
range |
pointing
accuracy |
detectors
|
| Atacama Large Millimeter Array | Llano de Chajnantor (Chile) |
64x12
m
|
2010
|
5000
|
35-850
(8.7-0.350)
|
1.0
|
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| Atacama Pathfinder EXperiment | Llano de Chajnantor (Chile) | Max-Planck - Institut fur Radioastronomie |
12
m
|
2003
|
5000
|
200-1000
(
|
2.0
|
300x
bolometer array at 870 micron 37x bolometer array at 350 micron Heterodine 200 GHz to 1 THz |
|
| Antarctic Submillimeter Telescope and Remote Observatory | South Pole (Antarctica) |
1.7
m
|
1995
|
2900
|
(0.2-2)
|
Major
Dobbin: 230 GHz SIS receiver Wanda: dual 492/810 GHz SIS waveguide receiver FLaMR: 460-492 GHz SIS quasi-optical receiver PoleSTAR: 4x800-820 GHz fixed-tuned SIS mixer |
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| Atacama Submillimeter Telescope Experiment | Pampa La Bola (Chile) |
10
m
|
2001
|
4800
|
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| Caltech Submillimeter Array | Mauna Kea (Hawaii, US) |
10.4
m
|
1988
|
4092
|
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| James Clerck Maxwell Telescope | Mauna Kea (Hawaii, US) |
15
m
|
4092
|
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| Kölner Observatorium für Submillimeter Astronomie | Gornergrat (Switzerland) |
3
m
|
3167
|
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| Mt. Fuji (Japan) | Nobeyama Observatory |
1.2
|
1998
|
3724
|
triple-band receiver niobium-based SIS mixers | ||||
| Swedish-ESO Submm Telescope | La Silla (Chile) | Swedish
Research Council European Southern Observatory |
15
m
|
1987
|
2400
|
70-365
(4.2-0.821)
|
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| SubMillimeter Array | Mauna Kea (Hawaii, US) |
Smithsonian Astrophysical
Observatory, Academia Sinica Institute of Astronomy & Astrophysics, Taiwan |
8x6
m
|
2002
|
4080
|
180-900
(1.6-0.35)
|
1.0
|
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| Heinrich Hertz Submillimeter Telescope Observatory | Mt. Graham (AZ, USA) | Steward
Observatory Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie |
10
m
|
3185
|
(0.350-3)
|
1.0
|
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| South Pole Submillimeter Telescope | South Pole (Antarctica) |
10
m
|
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| Airborne | |||||||||
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Name
|
Site
|
Organizations
|
diameter
|
Year
|
Altitude
m |
range |
pwv
|
detectors
|
| NASA DLR |
2.5
m
|
2005
|
15000
|
(0.005-0.300)
|
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| Kuiper Airborne Observatory |
1974
|
14000
|
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| Space | |||||||||
| Herschel Space Observatory | L2 point | ESA |
3.5
m
|
2007
|
1.5E9
|
HIFI
(Heterodyne Instrument for Herschel), a high-resolution spectrometer 480-1250
Ghz PACS (Photoconductor Array Camera and Spectrometer) - a camera SPIRE (Spectral and Photometric Imaging REceiver) - a photometer |
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IRAS
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ISO
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| Space Infrared Telescope Facility | JPL California Institute of Technology |
0.85 m | 2003 | - | (0.003-0.180) |
IRAC (Infrared Array Camera) IRS (InfraRed Spectrograph) MIPS (Multiband Imaging Photometer) |
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| Usefull links | |||||||||
| CSO Atmospheric Transmission Interactive Plotter | |||||||||
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last
update on October 11, 2002
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