The Cornell Caltech Atacama Telescope

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Jan 2009

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2009aas...21335008g&link_type=abstract

American Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting #213, #350.08; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 41, p.487

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The Cornell Caltech Atacama Telescope (CCAT) is a 25-m diameter, submillimeter telescope being designed for a mountaintop site above the Atacama Plateau in Chile. Observations with CCAT from 200 microns to 2 millimeters will enable astronomers to address fundamental questions on topics ranging local star formation and interstellar processes to the formation of galaxies at the highest redshifts. By virtue of its high (18,300 ft.), dry site, large collecting area, precise surface, and large-format cameras enabled by rapid advances in detector technology, CCAT will have a high mapping speed for surveys, providing an essential complement to ALMA. The CCAT consortium includes Cornell University, the California Institute of Technology, the University of Colorado, the University of Waterloo (representing a Canadian university consortium, including the University of British Columbia), and the United Kingdom Astronomy Technology Centre, with additional partners anticipated.

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