Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
Mar 1998
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1998msngr..91...28n&link_type=abstract
The Messenger, vol. 91, p. 28-29
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
Scientific paper
The Swedish-ESO Submillimetre Telescope (SEST) has been in operation successfully for close to 10 years, the first scheduled observations having taken place in April 1988. It has served not only the Swedish-ESO community, but 10% of the Swedish observing time has been used by Finnish astronomers and, recently, Australia has signed an agreement with Sweden, also for 10% of Swedish observing time. The SEST receivers have been upgraded on a regular basis during the past decade, but the original control system is still in place. However, during the past couple of years an in-house project to replace this control system as well as the old computers has been in progress, while continuing normal observations. The project is being carried out by the SEST engineers with assistance from the staff at Onsala Space Observatory and will be completed during 1998. This article will describe the present instrumentation, the new control system and give a brief overview of the plans for the SEST during the coming years.
Nyman L.-AA.
Tieftrunk Achim
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