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We report the current status of the 1.85-m mm-submm telescope installed at the Nobeyama Radio Observatory (altitude 1400 m) and the future plan. The scientific goal is to reveal the physical/chemical properties of molecular clouds in the…

The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) is a high etendue imaging facility that is being constructed atop Cerro Pachon in Northern Chile. It is scheduled to begin science operations in 2022. With an 8.4m (6.5m effective) aperture, a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-03-12 Hu Zhan , J. Anthony Tyson

The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) will be a large, wide-field ground-based system designed to obtain, starting in 2015, multiple images of the sky that is visible from Cerro Pachon in Northern Chile. About 90% of the observing time…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-03-12 Z. Ivezic , T. Axelrod , A. C. Becker

The Atacama Large Millimeter-submillimeter Array (ALMA), sited on the high desert plains of Chajnantor in Chile, has opened a new window onto solar physics in 2016 by providing continuum observations at millimeter and sub-millimeter…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-07 Timothy Bastian , Masumi Shimojo , Miroslav Barta , Stephen White , Kazumasa Iwai

The Simons Observatory (SO) is a group of modern telescopes dedicated to observing the polarized cosmic microwave background (CMB), transients, and more. The Observatory consists of four telescopes and instruments, with over 60,000…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-07 David V. Nguyen , Sanah Bhimani , Nicholas Galitzki , Brian J. Koopman , Jack Lashner , Laura Newburgh , Max Silva-Feaver , Kyohei Yamada

The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) is the premier telescope for sensitive, high-resolution observations at millimeter and submillimeter wavelengths. The array consists of fifty 12-m diameter antennas that can be…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-31 John Carpenter , Daisuke Iono , Francisca Kemper , Al Wootten

The Blanco Cosmology Survey (BCS) is a 60 night imaging survey of $\sim$80 deg$^2$ of the southern sky located in two fields: ($\alpha$,$\delta$)= (5 hr, $-55^{\circ}$) and (23 hr, $-55^{\circ}$). The survey was carried out between 2005 and…

The angular power spectrum is a powerful statistic for analysing cosmological signals imprinted in the clustering of matter. However, current galaxy and quasar surveys cover limited portions of the sky, and are contaminated by systematics…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-10-29 Boris Leistedt , Hiranya V. Peiris , Daniel J. Mortlock , Aurélien Benoit-Lévy , Andrew Pontzen

The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST), the next-generation optical imaging survey sited at Cerro Pachon in Chile, will provide an unprecedented database of astronomical measurements. The LSST design, with an 8.4m (6.7m effective)…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-14 Željko Ivezić , Andrew J. Connolly , Mario Jurić

The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) is an international radio telescope under construction in the Atacama Desert of northern Chile. ALMA will be situated on a high-altitude site at 5000 m elevation which provides…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-04-11 A. J. Beasley , R. Murowinski , M. Tarenghi

The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) is an international radio telescope under construction in the Atacama Desert of northern Chile. ALMA is situated on a dry site at 5000 m elevation, allowing excellent atmospheric…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Alwyn Wootten , A. Richard Thompson

We present the temperature and polarization angular power spectra of the CMB measured by the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) from 5400 deg$^2$ of the 2013-2016 survey, which covers $>$15000 deg$^2$ at 98 and 150 GHz. For this analysis we…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-11-18 Steve K. Choi , Matthew Hasselfield , Shuay-Pwu Patty Ho , Brian Koopman , Marius Lungu , Maximilian H. Abitbol , Graeme E. Addison , Peter A. R. Ade , Simone Aiola , David Alonso , Mandana Amiri , Stefania Amodeo , Elio Angile , Jason E. Austermann , Taylor Baildon , Nick Battaglia , James A. Beall , Rachel Bean , Daniel T. Becker , J Richard Bond , Sarah Marie Bruno , Erminia Calabrese , Victoria Calafut , Luis E. Campusano , Felipe Carrero , Grace E. Chesmore , Hsiao-mei Cho , Susan E. Clark , Nicholas F. Cothard , Devin Crichton , Kevin T. Crowley , Omar Darwish , Rahul Datta , Edward V. Denison , Mark J. Devlin , Cody J. Duell , Shannon M. Duff , Adriaan J. Duivenvoorden , Jo Dunkley , Rolando Dünner , Thomas Essinger-Hileman , Max Fankhanel , Simone Ferraro , Anna E. Fox , Brittany Fuzia , Patricio A. Gallardo , Vera Gluscevic , Joseph E. Golec , Emily Grace , Megan Gralla , Yilun Guan , Kirsten Hall , Mark Halpern , Dongwon Han , Peter Hargrave , Shawn Henderson , Brandon Hensley , J. Colin Hill , Gene C. Hilton , Matt Hilton , Adam D. Hincks , Renée Hložek , Johannes Hubmayr , Kevin M. Huffenberger , John P. Hughes , Leopoldo Infante , Kent Irwin , Rebecca Jackson , Jeff Klein , Kenda Knowles , Arthur Kosowsky , Victoria Lakey , Dale Li , Yaqiong Li , Zack Li , Martine Lokken , Thibaut Louis , Amanda MacInnis , Mathew Madhavacheril , Felipe Maldonado , Maya Mallaby-Kay , Danica Marsden , Loïc Maurin , Jeff McMahon , Felipe Menanteau , Kavilan Moodley , Tim Morton , Sigurd Naess , Toshiya Namikawa , Federico Nati , Laura Newburgh , John P. Nibarger , Andrina Nicola , Michael D. Niemack , Michael R. Nolta , John Orlowski-Sherer , Lyman A. Page , Christine G. Pappas , Bruce Partridge , Phumlani Phakathi , Heather Prince , Roberto Puddu , Frank J. Qu , Jesus Rivera , Naomi Robertson , Felipe Rojas , Maria Salatino , Emmanuel Schaan , Alessandro Schillaci , Benjamin L. Schmitt , Neelima Sehgal , Blake D. Sherwin , Carlos Sierra , Jon Sievers , Cristobal Sifon , Precious Sikhosana , Sara Simon , David N. Spergel , Suzanne T. Staggs , Jason Stevens , Emilie Storer , Dhaneshwar D. Sunder , Eric R. Switzer , Ben Thorne , Robert Thornton , Hy Trac , Jesse Treu , Carole Tucker , Leila R. Vale , Alexander Van Engelen , Jeff Van Lanen , Eve M. Vavagiakis , Kasey Wagoner , Yuhan Wang , Jonathan T. Ward , Edward J. Wollack , Zhilei Xu , Fernando Zago , Ningfeng Zhu

CASA, the Common Astronomy Software Applications, is the primary data processing software for the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) and the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA), and is often used also for other radio…

The Atacama Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope (AtLAST) aims to be the premier next generation large diameter (50 meter) single dish observatory capable of observations across the millimeter/submillimeter spectrum, from 30~GHz to 1~THz.…

The primary observational goals of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey are to obtain CCD imaging of 10,000 deg^2 of the north Galactic cap in five passbands, with a limiting magnitude in the r-band of 22.5, to obtain spectroscopic redshifts of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Bernardi

The Atacama B-mode Search (ABS) is an experiment designed to measure cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarization at large angular scales ($\ell>40$). It operated from the ACT site at 5190~m elevation in northern Chile at 145 GHz with a…

The Atacama B-mode Search (ABS) experiment is a 145 GHz polarimeter designed to measure the B-mode polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) at large angular scales. The ABS instrument will ship to the Atacama Desert of Chile…