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The Case for a 30m Diameter Submillimeter Telescope on the Antarctic Plateau

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 March 2016

Antony A. Stark*
Affiliation:
Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, 60 Garden St. MS 12, Cambridge, MA 02138USA

Abstract

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A large single-dish submillimeter-wave telescope equipped with a focal plane array containing ~ 104 bolometers and costing about $120M could locate most protogalaxies in the southern sky within a year of operation.

Type
II. Special Scientific Sessions
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of Pacific 2005

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