Atacama Pathfinder Experiment
(APEX)
(12-meter submillimeter telescope in Chile)
The Atacama Pathfinder Experiment (APEX) is a twelve-meter
microwave telescope at the
Llano de Chajnantor Observatory
in the Atacama Desert in Chile, with the goal of
studying molecular clouds, e.g., observing their 0.2 mm carbon monoxide
emission lines.
It began operation in 2004.
Among its instruments:
- SEPIA "Swedish-ESO PI receiver for APEX" (spectrograph).
- nFLASH aka FLASH+ (SIS receiver).
- LASMA "Large APEX Sub-Millimetre Array".
Some former instruments:
(The title word "pathfinder" refers to the dish's original purpose,
serving as a prototype for ALMA dishes.)
(telescope,microwave,submillimeter,ground,Chile)
Further reading:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atacama_Pathfinder_Experiment
http://www.apex-telescope.org/
https://astronomy.swin.edu.au/cosmos/A/APEX
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2002Msngr.109...18N/abstract
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2009A%26A...497..945S/abstract
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2023pcsf.conf..335R/abstract
| WaveL | Freq | Photon
Energy | | |
| .2mm | 1.5THz | 6.2meV | begin | Atacama Pathfinder Experiment |
| 1.5mm | 200GHz | 827μeV | end | Atacama Pathfinder Experiment |
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Referenced by pages:
ADC Backend For Bolometer Array (ABBA)
Atacama Desert
CONCERTO
DeGaS-MC
European Southern Observatory (ESO)
La Silla Paranal Observatory (LPO)
LABOCA Extended Chandra Deep Field-South Submillimetre Survey (LESS)
Llano de Chajnantor Observatory
submillimeter astronomy
Swedish-ESO Submillimetre Telescope (SEST)
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