The Atacama Array

Japan-US Workshop on Millimeter and Submillimeter Astronomy at 10 milliarcseconds Resolution

The interest of the NSF in seeing the MMA secure the participation of other government agencies and/or international partners is being pursued with a variety of initiatives proposed. One possible collaboration between the NRAO MMA and the NRO LMSA is to create, periodically, a single combined instrument in a 10~km configuration, called the Atacama Array. This array will have 90 elements, perhaps 6000 sq m collecting area, will operate between 70 and 850 GHz, and will have a maximum resolution of about 10 milli-arcseconds.

Atacama Array Scientific and Technical Workshop

Scientific and technical issues of the Atacama Array will be discussed at a workshop in Tokyo March 16-19, 1997. Please contact Bob Brown at rbrown@nrao.edu if you are interested in attending this workshop on the Atacama Array.

Some Atacama Array issues are being investigated:


Last modified 10 March 1999

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