Caltech Submillimeter Observatory
(CSO, LCT, Leighton Chajnantor Telescope)
(10.4-meter submillimeter telescope previously in Hawaii)
The Caltech Submillimeter Observatory (CSO)
was a 10.4-meter submillimeter telescope
at Mauna Kea Observatories (MKO), Mauna Kea, Hawaii.
It was built in 1985, ceasing operation in 2015
and removed from Mauna Kea as of July 2024,
part of a deal to allow the Thirty Meter Telescope to be built at MKO.
The CSO's dish is to be reused for the planned Leighton Chajnantor Telescope (LCT)
at the Llano de Chajnantor Observatory in the Atacama Desert in Chile.
CSO instruments:
- MUSIC - Multiwavelength Submillimeter Inductance Camera
- SHARC II - Submillimeter High Resolution Camera
- SHARP - SHARC II polarimeter.
- MAKO - 350 μm camera.
- Z-Spec - broadband grating spectrometer.
- ZEUS-2 - long slit echelle grating spectrometer.
Some earlier CSO instruments:
(telescope,reflector,ground,submillimeter,Hawaii)
Further reading:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caltech_Submillimeter_Observatory
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leighton_Radio_Telescopes
http://cso.caltech.edu/
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1990LIACo..29..291P/abstract
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2009ASPC..417..377K/abstract
https://fir-sig.ipac.caltech.edu/system/media_files/binaries/29/original/190115GolwalaLCTIRSIGWeb.pdf
https://authors.library.caltech.edu/107460/1/SPIE-AS20-6422bca7-1406-ea11-813b-005056be78dc.pdf
https://www.caltech.edu/about/news/telescope-dismantled-and-heading-to-new-mission-in-chile
https://www.caltech.edu/about/news/caltechs-submillimeter-observatory-has-been-removed-from-maunakea
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2023RAA....23d5013Y/abstract
Referenced by pages:
Atacama Desert
far infrared (FIR)
Leighton Chajnantor Telescope (LCT)
Llano de Chajnantor Observatory
Mauna Kea
Mauna Kea Observatories (MKO)
Submillimeter Array (SMA)
submillimeter astronomy
Tomographic Ionized-carbon Mapping Experiment (TIME)
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