出典:Wikipedia
出典:『Wikipedia』 (2011/05/05 01:37 UTC 版)
The Cerro Chajnantor Atacama Telescope (CCAT) is a proposed 25-metre telescope that is intended to reveal the cosmic origins of stars, planets, and galaxies with its submillimeter cameras and spectrometers enabled by the superconducting detector arrays. Submillimeter is a type of microwave radiation that is closest to infrared in the light spectrum. Situated at a planned altitude of 5612 meters on Cerro Chajnantor in northern Chile, CCAT would be one of the highest permanent, ground-based telescopes in the world.