Single Dish | ||||||
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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 | ||||||
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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 |