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- No books have been published yet on this subject
- Rather unique monograph presenting one of the key stories in the history of mm-wave observations in the USA (and therefore pretty much in the world)
- Comes at the right moment
- The mm-wave part of the spectrum is about the last window that remains to be opened for ground-based astronomy (gravitational waves being the other part)
- Currently, two major new telescopes (GTM and ALMA) are being built to operate in the mm-wave band
- They can be seen as a direct spin-off of the Tucson Operations
- ALMA (see www.alma.nrao.edu/info) is the most internationally and heavily sponsored project (at least 500 million dollar) and will become operational in 2007
- With these new tools arriving within a few years, the astronomical community is funding an increasing amount of projects in mm-wave astronomy
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Astrophysics and Space Science Library (ASSL, volume 323)
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
Authors and Affiliations
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National Radio Astronomy Observatory, Tucson, USA
M. A. Gordon
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Recollections of "Tucson Operations"
Book Subtitle: The Millimeter-Wave Observatory of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory
Authors: M. A. Gordon
Series Title: Astrophysics and Space Science Library
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-3236-6
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2005
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-3235-6Published: 14 January 2005
Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-6822-4Published: 22 October 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-3236-3Published: 30 March 2006
Series ISSN: 0067-0057
Series E-ISSN: 2214-7985
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 221
Topics: Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology, History, general