FTS and RLT page

FTS and RLT

Description

The Receiver Lab Telescope (RLT) (the world's highest frequency radio telescope) is the first ground-based radio telescope designed for operating at frequencies above 1 THz. It has been operative since fall 2003. This instrument is settled on cerro Sairecabur in the north of Chile at 5525 meters (18,125 feet) of altitud. This project started with a Furier Transform Spectrometer (FTS) setteled on cerro Chajnantor and it is part important of the RLT system.

Pictures

	Sunset on Sairecabur, Chile.
	Picture of the site. It is possible to see two containers. One is for the FTS's systems and the other one for the RLT's systems.
	The two containers.
	RLT's cryostat connected to the system.
	View of the optical system based on Matin-Puplett Interferometer.
	View of the optical system.
	View of the optical system.
	View of the optical system.
	View of the optical system.
	Cryostat.
	View of cryostat as it comes originally.
	Cryostat Base.
	View of disassembled cryostat.
	View of modified cryostat.
	View of the new cryostat.
	View of the new cryostat.
	Antenna.
	Antenna.
	Antenna.
	Antenna.
	Antenna.
	Antenna.
	Antenna.
	Correlator.
	RLT container interior. I am in the picture as a size reference.

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Comments | 30 April 2007