Showing posts with label bolometer camera. Show all posts
Showing posts with label bolometer camera. Show all posts

Thursday, February 21, 2008

The world's largest bolometer camera

The world's largest bolometer camera for sub-millimetre astronomy has been put into service at the 12-m APEX telescope, located on the 5100m high Chajnantor plateau in the Chilean Andes.

LArge BOlometer Camera (LABOCA) was specifically designed for the study of extremely cold astronomical objects