DocumentCode
126616
Title
Present status and future directions of Onsala Space Observatory, Sweden
Author
Lindqvist, M. ; Conway, J.
Author_Institution
Onsala Space Obs., Onsala, Sweden
fYear
2014
fDate
16-23 Aug. 2014
Firstpage
1
Lastpage
1
Abstract
Onsala Space Observatory (OSO), the Swedish National Facility for Radio Astronomy, operates a 20m-diameter millimetre-wave telescope a 25m-diameter cm-wave telescope as well as a LOFAR station at Onsala, Sweden. OSO is also responsible for the Swedish involvement in the Atacama Pathfinder Experiment (APEX), an excellent sub-millimetre telescope on an exceptionally good site, Llano Chajnantor in Chile. Furthermore, OSO is involved in several international projects such as EVN, IVS, LOFAR, ALMA and SKA. We will describe the present status of the observatory and outline some of the planned future directions.
Keywords
radiotelescopes; submillimetre astronomy; ALMA; APEX; Atacama Pathfinder Experiment; EVN; IVS; LOFAR station; OSO; Onsala Space Observatory; SKA; Swedish National Facility for Radio Astronomy; cm-wave telescope; excellent submillimetre telescope; millimetre-wave telescope; size 20 m; size 25 m; Observatories;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
General Assembly and Scientific Symposium (URSI GASS), 2014 XXXIth URSI
Conference_Location
Beijing
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/URSIGASS.2014.6929982
Filename
6929982
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