Atacama Large Millimeter Array
(ALMA)
(large radio telescope array in Chile)
The Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA)
is an interferometer array of radio telescopes on
the Chajnantor Plateau
in the Atacama Desert in Chile.
It sits at an altitude of 5000 meters
and consists of
66 12-meter and 7-meter movable dishes that
observe millimeter and sub-millimeter wavelengths.
It began operation in 2013 with 50 12-meter dishes,
having been under construction since 2003.
A later addition called the Atacama Compact Array (ACA)
consists of sixteen additional 12-meter and 7-meter dishes
with different specifications, including a wider field of view.
(radio,telescope,interferometer,NRAO,ESO,array,ground,Chile,millimeter,submillimeter)
Further reading:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atacama_Large_Millimeter_Array
http://www.almaobservatory.org/
https://almascience.nrao.edu/
http://www.eso.org/sci/facilities/alma.html
| WaveL | Freq | Photon
Energy | | |
| 300μm | 1000GHz | 4.2meV | begin | Atacama Large Millimeter Array |
| 9.7mm | 31GHz | 128μeV | end | Atacama Large Millimeter Array |
|
Referenced by pages:
angular resolution
Academia Sinica Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics (ASIAA)
Atacama Submillimeter Telescope Experiment (ASTE)
Atacama Desert
back end instrument
Combined Array for Research in Millimeter-wave Astronomy (CARMA)
Llano de Chajnantor Observatory
European Southern Observatory (ESO)
front end instrument
Greenland Telescope (GLT)
HL Tau
LABOCA Extended Chandra Deep Field-South Submillimetre Survey (LESS)
Large Millimeter Telescope (LMT)
millimeter astronomy
Millimeter-wave Intensity Mapping Experiment (mmIME)
Next Generation Very Large Array (ngVLA)
National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO)
protoplanetary disk (PPD)
submillimeter astronomy
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