Plans for a 10-m Submillimeter-wave Telescope at the South Pole
A 10 meter diameter submillimeter-wave telescope has been proposed for the NSF Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station. Current evidence indicates that the South Pole is the best submillimeter-wave telescope site among all existing or proposed ground-based observatories. Proposed scientific programs place...
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ftdatacite:10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/9802326 2023-05-15T13:24:27+02:00 Plans for a 10-m Submillimeter-wave Telescope at the South Pole Stark, Antony A. Carlstrom, John E. Israel, Frank P. Menten, Karl M. Peterson, Jeffrey B. Phillips, T. G. Sironi, Giorgio Walker, Christopher K. 1998 https://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/9802326 https://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9802326 unknown arXiv https://dx.doi.org/10.1117/12.317383 Assumed arXiv.org perpetual, non-exclusive license to distribute this article for submissions made before January 2004 http://arxiv.org/licenses/assumed-1991-2003/ Astrophysics astro-ph FOS Physical sciences article-journal Article ScholarlyArticle Text 1998 ftdatacite https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/9802326 https://doi.org/10.1117/12.317383 2022-04-01T17:14:49Z A 10 meter diameter submillimeter-wave telescope has been proposed for the NSF Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station. Current evidence indicates that the South Pole is the best submillimeter-wave telescope site among all existing or proposed ground-based observatories. Proposed scientific programs place stringent requirements on the optical quality of the telescope design. In particular, reduction of the thermal background and offsets requires an off-axis, unblocked aperture, and the large field of view needed for survey observations requires shaped optics. This mix of design elements is well-suited for large scale (square degree) mapping of line and continuum radiation from submillimeter-wave sources at moderate spatial resolutions (4 to 60 arcsecond beam size) and high sensitivity (milliJansky flux density levels). the telescope will make arcminute angular scale, high frequency Cosmic Microwave Background measurements from the best possible ground-based site, using an aperture which is larger than is currently possible on orbital or airborne platforms. Effective use of this telescope will require development of large (1000 element) arrays of submillimeter detectors which are background-limited when illuminated by antenna temperatures near 50 K. : 12 pages, 3 figures Text Amundsen-Scott South pole DataCite Metadata Store (German National Library of Science and Technology) South Pole Amundsen-Scott ENVELOPE(0.000,0.000,-90.000,-90.000) Amundsen Scott South Pole Station ENVELOPE(0.000,0.000,-90.000,-90.000) Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station ENVELOPE(139.273,139.273,-89.998,-89.998) |
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A 10 meter diameter submillimeter-wave telescope has been proposed for the NSF Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station. Current evidence indicates that the South Pole is the best submillimeter-wave telescope site among all existing or proposed ground-based observatories. Proposed scientific programs place stringent requirements on the optical quality of the telescope design. In particular, reduction of the thermal background and offsets requires an off-axis, unblocked aperture, and the large field of view needed for survey observations requires shaped optics. This mix of design elements is well-suited for large scale (square degree) mapping of line and continuum radiation from submillimeter-wave sources at moderate spatial resolutions (4 to 60 arcsecond beam size) and high sensitivity (milliJansky flux density levels). the telescope will make arcminute angular scale, high frequency Cosmic Microwave Background measurements from the best possible ground-based site, using an aperture which is larger than is currently possible on orbital or airborne platforms. Effective use of this telescope will require development of large (1000 element) arrays of submillimeter detectors which are background-limited when illuminated by antenna temperatures near 50 K. : 12 pages, 3 figures |
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Plans for a 10-m Submillimeter-wave Telescope at the South Pole |
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Plans for a 10-m Submillimeter-wave Telescope at the South Pole |
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