Paul A. Vanden Bout, Robert L. Dickman, Adele L. Plunkett

ALMA Telescope (eBook, PDF)

The Story of a Science Mega-Project

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

ALMA, the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array, situated high in the Chilean desert, is the largest ground-based telescope on Earth. This is an insiders' account of how this complex mega-project came to fruition from authors with intimate knowledge of its past and present. The separate roots of ALMA in the United States, Europe, and Japan are traced to their merger into an international partnership involving more than 20 countries. The book relates the search for a suitable telescope site, challenges encountered in organization, funding, and construction, and lessons learned along the way. It closes with a review of the most significant results from ALMA, now one of the most productive telescopes in the world. Written for a broad spectrum of readers, including astronomers, engineers, project managers, science historians, government officials, and the general public, the eBook edition is available to download as an Open Access publication on Cambridge Core.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. August 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781009279697
• Artikelnr.: 70912125

Autorenporträt

Paul A. Vanden Bout is a Senior Scientist, Emeritus, at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO), where he served as director from 1985 to 2002. He was the first director of ALMA and served as the head of the North American ALMA Science Center (NAASC), where he organized the Center in its early years. His career has been almost entirely spent in millimeter astronomy, including pioneering the Millimeter Wave Observatory at the University of Texas' McDonald Observatory. He has participated in the entire US history of events that led to ALMA, and much of that in Europe, Japan, and Chile.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword Anneila Sargent
Preface
1. Interstellar Carbon Monoxide
2. What Now?
3. The Millimeter Array
4. Searching for a Site
5. Foreign Affairs
6. Organizing ALMA
7. Contentious Matters
8. Funding ALMA
9. Construction and Inauguration
10. Promises Fulfilled
Appendix A. Radioastronomy
Appendix B. Millimeter/Submillimeter Telescopes
Appendix C. Lessons Learned
Bibliography
Glossary
Index.