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Leighton Chajnantor Telescope

(LCT)
(future 10.4-meter submillimeter telescope in Chile)

The Leighton Chajnantor Telescope (LCT) is a 10.4-meter submillimeter telescope in development for the Llano de Chajnantor Observatory in the Atacama Desert in Chile. The dish is to be that of the Caltech Submillimeter Observatory (CSO), now dismantled, which operated from 1985 to 2015 at Mauna Kea Observatories (MKO), Mauna Kea, Hawaii. I have found no recent information on progress at the LCT site or a timeline for its installation. NEW-MUSIC is an instrument planned for it, undoubtedly a follow-on to an instrument on the CSO called MUSIC (for Multiwavelength Submillimeter Inductance Camera). LCT has also been considered as a future host for the Tomographic Ionized-carbon Mapping Experiment (TIME).


(telescope,reflector,ground,submillimeter,Chile,future)
Further reading:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leighton_Radio_Telescopes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caltech_Submillimeter_Observatory
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://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2023RAA....23d5013Y/abstract
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1990LIACo..29..291P/abstract

Referenced by page:
Caltech Submillimeter Observatory (CSO)

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