Document Type
Conference Proceeding
Publication Date
1-1-2020
Publication Title
Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
Abstract
The Large Millimeter Telescope (LMT) Alfonso Serrano is a 50m-diameter single-dish radio telescope constructed at an altitude of 4600 meters on the summit of Volcan Sierra Negra, an extinct volcano in the Mexican state of Puebla. The LMT is a bi-national scientific collaboration between Mexico and the USA, led by the Instituto Nacional de Astrofisica, Optica y Electronica (INAOE) and the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. The telescope currently operates at wavelengths from 4mm to 1mm, and during the dry winter months the LMT site provides the highest levels of atmospheric transmission and potential future access to submillimeter observing windows. This paper describes the current status and scientific performance of the LMT, the suite of scientific instrumentation and future engineering upgrades that will optimize the optical efficiency of the telescope and increase its scientific productivity.
Keywords
Camera, Kinetic inductance detector, Large Millimeter Telescope, mm-wavelength
Volume
11445
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2561893
ISSN
0277786X
Rights
© 2020 SPIE
Version
Version of Record
Recommended Citation
Hughes, David H.; Schloerb, F. Peter; Aretxaga, Itziar; Castillo-Domínguez, Edgar; Chávez Dagostino, Miguel; Colín, Edgar; Erickson, Neal; Ferrusca Rodriguez, Daniel; Gale, David M.; Gómez-Ruiz, Arturo; Hernández Rebollar, José Luis; Heyer, Mark; Lowenthal, James; Montaña, Alfredo; Moreno Nolasco, Marcos Emir; Narayanan, Gopal; Pope, Alexandra; Rodríguez-Montoya, Iván; Sánchez-Argüelles, David; Smith, David; Souccar, Kamal; De La Rosa Becerra, Miguel Velázquez; Wilson, Grant W.; and Yun, Min S., "The Large Millimeter Telescope (LMT) Alfonso Serrano: Current Status and Telescope Performance" (2020). Astronomy: Faculty Publications, Smith College, Northampton, MA.
https://scholarworks.smith.edu/ast_facpubs/61