• DocumentCode
    2670195
  • Title

    Millimeter and sub-millimeter wave technology for astronomy: From early bell labs work to ALMA

  • Author

    Wilson, Robert W.

  • Author_Institution
    Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophys., Cambridge, MA, USA
  • fYear
    2011
  • fDate
    2-7 Oct. 2011
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    Bell Labs was an early developer of millimeter-wave technology. At the peak of its development there, Arno Penzias, Keith Jefferts and I were privileged to use it to discover CO in what turned out to be star forming interstellar clouds. Interest in mm and sub-mm wave astronomy has blossomed since.
  • Keywords
    Bell theorem; interstellar molecular clouds; millimetre waves; star formation; submillimetre astronomy; submillimetre waves; ALMA; Bell labs; astronomy; star forming interstellar clouds; submillimeter wave technology; Astronomy; Clouds; Junctions; Mixers; Optical waveguides; Receivers;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Infrared, Millimeter and Terahertz Waves (IRMMW-THz), 2011 36th International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Houston, TX
  • ISSN
    2162-2027
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4577-0510-6
  • Electronic_ISBN
    2162-2027
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/irmmw-THz.2011.6104781
  • Filename
    6104781