Millimeter and Sub-millimeter Telescopes

In this section we list the major, general-purpose singe-dish and interferometric telescopes used throughout the world. Any telescope that observes at the mm or submillimeter wavebands.

Single Dish
Telescope Location Diameter Freq Coverage Access Imaging/Multipixel Instruments Notes
APEX Llano de Chajnantor 12 m 211 - 1390 GHz   LABOCA (295 pix 345 GHz), SABOCA (39 pix 850 GHz) ALMA Prototype antenna
GBT Green Bank, WV 100 m 0.3 MHz - 100 GHz Open Sky Mustang  
IRAM 30-m Pico Veleta 30 m 83 - 350 GHz   HERA (9 pix 250 GHz spec); MAMBO2 (117 pix 250 GHz cont)  
LMT Sierra Negra 50 m (32 m) 85 - 275 GHz   AzTEC (144 pix; 140 or 275 GHz)  
45-m Nobeyama 45 m 20 - 120 GHz Open  
JCMT Mauna Kea 15 m 211 - 710 GHz Open SCUBA (5120 pix bolo; 450/850 um)  
CSO Mauna Kea, HI 10.4 m 180 - 950 GHz Open SHARC II (384 pix bolo; 350/450/850um)  
Herschel Orbit 3.5 m 446 - 1545 GHz (SPIRE)   SPIRE Also houses Far-IR instruments HIFI and PACS; Active until 2013
CCAT Cerro Chajnantor 25 m TBD TBD   Completed in 2020?
100-m Effelsberg 100 m 0.4 - 96 GHz Open    

Interferometers
Telescope Location Elements Max Baseline Total Collecting Area (m^2) Freq Coverage (GHz) Access
SMA Mauna Kea, HI 8 x 6m   226 180 - 700 72% Open Sky
CARMA Cedar Flat, CA 6 x 10.4m, 9 x 6.1 m     85 - 270 GHz Open
CARMA Cedar Flat, CA 8 x 3.5m     26 - 115 GHz Open
PdBI Plateau de Bure 6 x 15m 760 m   80 - 371 GHz  
ALMA (Cycle 0) Chajnantor 16 x 12m 125 / 400 m 1800 84 - 720 GHz Open
ALMA (Full) Chajnantor 50 x 12m + 12 x 7m + 4 x 12m (TPA) 16 km > 5600 31 - 787 GHz Open

-- JimBraatz - 2011-09-21
Topic revision: r5 - 2011-10-04, JonathanKeohane
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