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
- 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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