Radio, mm and sub-mm telescopes
Interferometers
- ATCA (Australia Telescope Compact Array)
6 x 22m T-shaped cm + mm array; λ = 3mm, 7mm, 12mm, 3+6cm, 13cm, 21cm
(NSW, Australia: lat = 30°18'46.3849" S, long = 149°33'00.4997" E)
- ALMA (Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array)
submm + mm array under construction; expected λ = 350 μm to 3.6 mm
(Chile: lat = 23°01'22.42" S, long = 67°45'17.44" W)
- CARMA (Combined Array for Research in Millimeter-wave Astronomy)
Merged BIMA+OVRO mm array of 6 x 10.4-m, 9 x 6.1-m, and 8 x 3.5-m antennas; λ = 1.3, 3, 7 mm
California, USA: lat = 118°08'32" W, long = 37°16'43" N)
- PdBI (IRAM Plateau de Bure Interferometer)
6 x 15-m antennae T-shaped mm array; λ = 3mm, 1.3mm, 0.8mm
(France: lat = 5°54'28.5" E, long = 44°38'02" N)
- SMA (Submillimeter Array)
8 x 6-m mm array; λ = 430µm, 870µm, 1.3mm
(Hawaii: lat = 19°45'32.4" N, long = 155°27'22.8" W)
- VLA (Very Large Array)
27 x 25-m antennae in a Y-shaped array; λ = 90m down to 7mm
(New Mexico, USA: lat = 34°04'43.497" N, long = 107°37'03.819" W)
Single disk
- APEX (Atacama Pathfinder Experiment)
12-m single dish ALMA prototype antenna; λ = 350 μm, 870μm, 1.1mm
(Chile: lat = 23°00'20.8" S, long = 67°45'33.0" W)
APEX archive
- MOPRA (ATNF Mopra telescope)
22-m single dish spectral line telescope; λ = 3mm
(NSW, Australia: lat = 31°16'0420.8" S, long = 149°05'59" W)
- NANTEN2 (Japanese for 'southern sky')
4-m single dish spectral line survey telescope; λ = 2.6 mm to 350 µm
(Chile: lat = 22°57'47" S, long = 67°42'08" W)
Engineers and astronomers...
- cm-bands: L-band = 20cm -- S-band = 13cm -- C-band = 6cm -- X-band = 3cm
- mm-bands: K-band = 12mm -- Q-band = 7mm -- W-band = 3mm
Space telescopes
- Herschel - a 3.5 m photometry and spectroscopy space telescope; λ = 55-672 μm