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13 December 2020 Development status of the Millimetron Space Observatory
Andrei Smirnov, Evgeny Golubev, Elena Filina, Mikhail Arkhipov, Sergey Pilipenko, Victor Pyshnov, Sergey Fedorchuk, Nelly Myshonkova, Igor Vinogradov, Vladimir Kostenko, Yaroslav Podobedov, Andrey Baryshev, Thijs de Graauw, Nikolay Babakin, Sergey Likhachev, Roman Cherny
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Abstract
Millimetron is a cryogenically cooled 10-m aperture space observatory. The telescope of the observatory will be maintained at a temperature less than 10 K, enabling its unprecedented sensitivity gain and will operate from 50 µm to 10 mm, encompassing the far-infrared, submillimeter and millimeter wavelength ranges. Observatory has two modes of observations: as a single dish space telescope, and as an element of Space-Earth Very Large Baseline Interferometer (SVLBI). Scientific instrumentation includes four instruments with capabilities for imaging, spectroscopy (medium- and high-resolution) and polarimetry, as well as an instrument for space-earth interferometry. We describe the key science cases and progress of the MSO development.
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Andrei Smirnov, Evgeny Golubev, Elena Filina, Mikhail Arkhipov, Sergey Pilipenko, Victor Pyshnov, Sergey Fedorchuk, Nelly Myshonkova, Igor Vinogradov, Vladimir Kostenko, Yaroslav Podobedov, Andrey Baryshev, Thijs de Graauw, Nikolay Babakin, Sergey Likhachev, and Roman Cherny "Development status of the Millimetron Space Observatory", Proc. SPIE 11443, Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2020: Optical, Infrared, and Millimeter Wave, 114432H (13 December 2020); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2562829
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KEYWORDS
Space observatories

Imaging spectroscopy

Telescopes

Mirrors

Space telescopes

Cryogenics

Interferometers

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