{"id":5259,"date":"2020-05-26T14:50:14","date_gmt":"2020-05-26T13:50:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.innovationnewsnetwork.com\/?p=5259"},"modified":"2020-05-26T14:50:14","modified_gmt":"2020-05-26T13:50:14","slug":"new-study-to-develop-the-worlds-largest-astronomical-telescope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.innovationnewsnetwork.com\/new-study-to-develop-the-worlds-largest-astronomical-telescope\/5259\/","title":{"rendered":"New study to develop the world\u2019s largest astronomical telescope"},"content":{"rendered":"
The study, named Towards an Atacama Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope<\/a> (AtLAST), will take place over the course of three years.<\/p>\n “Our project paves the way for building the largest single-dish sub-millimetre telescope in the world, which will deliver the deepest and widest maps of the sky ever obtained at these wavelengths,” says Dr Claudia Cicone, associate professor at the Institute of Theoretical Astrophysics, University of Oslo<\/a>, and study lead of AtLAST.<\/p>\n The AtLAST project will build a single antenna dish of 50 metres in diameter. Astronomers need such large astronomical telescopes to produce high quality observations of faint and distant astronomical sources<\/a>.<\/p>\n Researchers predict that AtLAST will be able to conduct \u2018one shot\u2019 observations hundreds of times bigger than the area seen by any existing or planned astronomical telescope\u200b. “These characteristics make AtLAST unique in the landscape of future astronomical facilities, but they also imply substantial technological challenges,” said Cicone.<\/p>\n To provide AtLAST with high accuracy in the sub-millimetre window, any surface imperfections on the dish cannot exceed a fraction of the diameter of a human hair. The unique acquisition speed of AtLAST, combined with its high sensitivity and spatial resolution, will enable astronomers to have a much more complete view of the sub-millimetre sky, including those faint and distant sources whose positions cannot be identified with current telescopes.<\/p>\n “AtLAST will take a molecular fingerprint of protostars and planets in distant regions of our Galaxy and galaxies in the nearby Universe,” adds Cicone.<\/p>\nEnabling new observations of distant astronomical sources<\/h3>\n
New era of green astronomical telescope<\/h3>\n