The Large Millimeter Telescope (LMT) Alfonso Serrano: current status and telescope performance

David H. Hughes; F. Peter Schloerb; Itziar Aretxaga; Edgar Castillo-Domínguez; Miguel Chávez Dagostino; Edgar Colín; Neal Erickson; Daniel Ferrusca Rodriguez; David M. Gale; Arturo Gómez-Ruiz; José Luis Hernández Rebollar; Mark Heyer; James Lowenthal; Alfredo Montaña; Marcos Emir Moreno Nolasco; Gopal Narayanan; Alexandra Pope; Iván Rodríguez-Montoya; David Sánchez-Argüelles; David Smith; Kamal Souccar; Miguel Velázquez de la Rosa Becerra; Grant W. Wilson; Min S. Yun

doi:10.1117/12.2561893

13 December 2020 The Large Millimeter Telescope (LMT) Alfonso Serrano: current status and telescope performance

David H. Hughes, F. Peter Schloerb, Itziar Aretxaga, Edgar Castillo-Domínguez, Miguel Chávez Dagostino, Edgar Colín, Neal Erickson, Daniel Ferrusca Rodriguez, David M. Gale, Arturo Gómez-Ruiz, José Luis Hernández Rebollar, Mark Heyer, James Lowenthal, Alfredo Montaña, Marcos Emir Moreno Nolasco, Gopal Narayanan, Alexandra Pope, Iván Rodríguez-Montoya, David Sánchez-Argüelles, David Smith, Kamal Souccar, Miguel Velázquez de la Rosa Becerra, Grant W. Wilson, Min S. Yun

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Proceedings Volume 11445, Ground-based and Airborne Telescopes VIII; 1144522 (2020) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2561893
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2020, Online Only

Abstract

The Large Millimeter Telescope (LMT) Alfonso Serrano is a 50m-diameter single-dish radio telescope constructed at an altitude of 4600 meters on the summit of Volcan Sierra Negra, an extinct volcano in the Mexican state of Puebla. The LMT is a bi-national scientific collaboration between Mexico and the USA, led by the Instituto Nacional de Astrofisica, Optica y Electronica (INAOE) and the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. The telescope currently operates at wavelengths from 4mm to 1mm, and during the dry winter months the LMT site provides the highest levels of atmospheric transmission and potential future access to submillimeter observing windows. This paper describes the current status and scientific performance of the LMT, the suite of scientific instrumentation and future engineering upgrades that will optimize the optical efficiency of the telescope and increase its scientific productivity.

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David H. Hughes, F. Peter Schloerb, Itziar Aretxaga, Edgar Castillo-Domínguez, Miguel Chávez Dagostino, Edgar Colín, Neal Erickson, Daniel Ferrusca Rodriguez, David M. Gale, Arturo Gómez-Ruiz, José Luis Hernández Rebollar, Mark Heyer, James Lowenthal, Alfredo Montaña, Marcos Emir Moreno Nolasco, Gopal Narayanan, Alexandra Pope, Iván Rodríguez-Montoya, David Sánchez-Argüelles, David Smith, Kamal Souccar, Miguel Velázquez de la Rosa Becerra, Grant W. Wilson, and Min S. Yun "The Large Millimeter Telescope (LMT) Alfonso Serrano: current status and telescope performance", Proc. SPIE 11445, Ground-based and Airborne Telescopes VIII, 1144522 (13 December 2020); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2561893

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