Title :
The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array
Author :
De Graauw, Thijs
Author_Institution :
Joint ALMA Obs., Santiago, Chile
Abstract :
The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), a collaboration between East Asia, Europe and North America and now under construction, will be a single research instrument composed of 66 high-precision antennas located near Cerro Chajnantor, at 5000m in the Chilean Andes. Although the interferometer is not yet completed, early science observations will already start in September 2011 with 16 antennas.
Keywords :
millimetre wave antenna arrays; radioastronomical techniques; radiowave interferometers; submillimetre wave antennas; ALMA; Atacama Large Millimeter Array; Atacama Large Submillimeter Array; high-precision antennas; interferometer; Antenna arrays; Arrays; Correlators; Europe; Mixers; Observatories;
Conference_Titel :
Infrared, Millimeter and Terahertz Waves (IRMMW-THz), 2011 36th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Houston, TX
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-0510-6
Electronic_ISBN :
2162-2027
DOI :
10.1109/irmmw-THz.2011.6105024
