The Atacama Submillimeter Telescope Experiment: ASTE
The Atacama Submillimeter Telescope
Experiment (ASTE) is a project to operate a 10 m
submillimeter telescope at a high altitude site
at Atacama desert in Northern Chile. The purposes
of the project are to explore the southern sky with
submillimeter waves up to 900 GHz, as well as development
and on-site evaluation of observation techniques
and methods for submillimeter observations.
The project is driven by the National
Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ)
in collaboration with Universidad de Chile
, and Japanese institutes including University of
Tokyo, Nagoya University, and Osaka-Prefecture University.
Following the extensive instrumental studies, ASTE
has successfully started its normal astronomical
observations at wavelenght of 0.87 mm (350 GHz)
since 2004 and many astronomers including from Chile
have to come to observe with ASTE since then.
ASTE
Headlines
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ASTE office and Control room in San Pedro
de Atacama has moved to a new facility; "Don
Esteban".
- New instruments will be available in ASTE
during 2008; AzTEC camera, and the 350 GHz
receiver "CATS345". |
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