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

Abstract. A large single-dish submillimeter-wave telescope equipped with a focal plane array containing ∼ 10 4 bolometers and costing about $120M could locate most protogalaxies in the southern sky within a year of operation. Many of the telescopes planned for the next few decades are designed to ob...

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Main Author: Antony A. Stark
Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
Format: Text
Language:English
Published: 2003
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Online Access:http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.257.2660
http://arxiv.org/pdf/astro-ph/0309005v1.pdf