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• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2004
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 60 KB
• Volume: 17
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0961-1290
• DOI: 10.1016/s0961-1290(04)00314-x

✦ Synopsis

Caltech) have signed an agreement committing the two institutions to collaborate on the planning for a 25meter infrared telescope high in the Atacama Desert of northern Chile. The universities will focus on the first phase of telescope development, says Riccardo Giovanelli, professor of astronomy at Cornell and project director. During the $2m study phase, researchers will outline the technical and financial resources required to construct the new telescope. Fred Young, an active Cornell alumnus and retired businessman from Racine, Wisc, will fund most of Cornell's share of the study. The estimated total cost of the telescope will be $60m and is expected see " first light" in 2012. The Atacama site, about 1,000 miles north of Santiago, is more than 5,000 meters (16,500 feet) above sea level.The Atacama telescope will be sensitive to light with far-infrared wavelengths longer than 200 microns, or 0.2mm which are too long to be perceived by the human eye, but are shorter than the waves that transmit radio and television signals.