The Greenland Telescope: Antenna Retrofit Status and Future Plans
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
2016-12-14 v1 Astrophysics of Galaxies
Abstract
Since the ALMA North America Prototype Antenna was awarded to the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO), SAO and the Academia Sinica Institute of Astronomy & Astrophysics (ASIAA) are working jointly to relocate the antenna to Greenland. This paper shows the status of the antenna retrofit and the work carried out after the recommissioning and subsequent disassembly of the antenna at the VLA has taken place. The next coming months will see the start of the antenna reassembly at Thule Air Base. These activities are expected to last until the fall of 2017 when commissioning should take place. In parallel, design, fabrication and testing of the last components are taking place in Taiwan.
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@article{arxiv.1612.02969,
title = {The Greenland Telescope: Antenna Retrofit Status and Future Plans},
author = {Philippe Raffin and Paul T. P. Ho and Keiichi Asada and Raymond Blundell and Geoffrey C. Bower and Roberto Burgos and Chih-Cheng Chang and Ming-Tang Chen and You-Hua Chu and Paul K. Grimes and C. C. Han and Chih-Wei L. Huang and Yau-De Huang and Fang-Chia Hsieh and Makoto Inoue and Patrick M. Koch and Derek Kubo and Steve Leiker and Lupin Lin and Ching-Tang Liu and Shih-Hsiang Lo and Pierre Martin-Cocher and Satoki Matsushita and Masanori Nakamura and Zheng Meyer-Zhao and Hiroaki Nishioka and Tim Norton and George Nystrom and Scott N. Paine and Nimesh A. Patel and Hung-Yi Pu and William Snow and T. K. Sridharan and Ranjani Srinivasan and Jackie Wang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1612.02969},
year = {2016}
}