James Clerk Maxwell Telescope
(JCMT)
(far-infrared telescope in Hawaii)
The James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (JCMT)
is a sub-millimeter infrared (far infrared) telescope near
the summit of Mauna Kea in Hawaii,
covering roughly half a millimeter to a millimeter.
Its primary mirror is 15 meters, it is located at
an altitude of 4000 meters and has been in operation since 1987.
It is used to study the solar system, interstellar dust and
gas, and distant galaxies.
Instruments:
In development:
- Nāmakanui - low-noise receivers at three frequencies, two of them currently commissioning.
Past:
(telescope,reflector,infrared,ground,Hawaii)
Further reading:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Clerk_Maxwell_Telescope
http://www.eaobservatory.org/jcmt/
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1989ESASP.290..567V/abstract
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1990LIACo..29..353G/abstract
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2009MNRAS.399.1026B/abstract
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2013MNRAS.430.2513H/abstract
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2020SPIE11453E..3TM/abstract
WaveL | Freq | Photon Energy | | |
450μm | 666GHz | 2.8meV | begin | James Clerk Maxwell Telescope |
950μm | 316GHz | 1.4meV | end | James Clerk Maxwell Telescope |
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Referenced by pages:
AMUSE²
angular resolution
AzTEC-3
Caltech Submillimeter Observatory (CSO)
East Asian Observatory (EAO)
JINGLE
Mauna Kea
Mauna Kea Observatories (MKO)
SCUBA
Submillimeter Array (SMA)
submillimeter astronomy
Tomographic Ionized-carbon Mapping Experiment (TIME)
Index