The CCAT 25m diameter submillimeter-wave telescope
- Woody, David
- Padin, Steve
- Chauvin, Eric
- Clavel, Bruno
- Cortes, German
- Kissil, Andy
- Lou, John
- Rasmussen, Paul
- Redding, David
- Zolkower, Jeff
Publication date
September 2012
DOI Publisher
SPIE-Intl Soc Optical Eng Citation count (estimate)
14Abstract
CCAT will be a 25 m diameter telescope operating in the 2 to 0.2 mm wavelength range. It will be located at an altitude of 5600 m on Cerro Chajnantor in Northern Chile. The telescope will be equipped with wide-field, multi-color cameras for surveys and multi-object spectrometers for spectroscopic follow up. Several innovations have been developed to meet the <0.5 arcsec pointing error and 10 µm surface error requirements while keeping within the modest budget appropriate for radio telescopes
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