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Pre-HEAT and HEAT on the Web |
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HEAT stands for the "High Elevation Antarctic Terahertz" telescope.
Pre-HEAT is the first implementation of a submillimeter telescope at the summit of the Antarctic ice plateau, Dome A, an elevation of 4100 meters and a pressure altitude of 4700 meters. Funded by the National Science Foundation under grant ANT-0735854, it is a 20 centimeter aperture telescope coupled to a 660 GHz Schottky diode mixer receiver and a digital FFT spectrometer. Its successor, HEAT, will be a 50 cm telescope with cooled 0.8, 1.4 and 1.9 THz Schottky diode receivers at first light. Future upgrades to a 4K SIS and HEB receiver system will follow. Feel free to browse the Pre-HEAT data archive shown at left. For both this archive and the RAW data archive at UNSW, please use "plato" and "preheat" as login credentials.
Pre-HEAT installed onto PLATO at Dome A. (Click to enlarge image) Last updated 28 August 2008 |