About Us The Submillimeter Array is an 8-element radio interferometer located atop Mauna Kea in Hawaii. Operating at frequencies from 180 GHz to 900 GHz, the 6m dishes may be arranged into configurations with b
aselines as long as 500m, producing a synthesized beam of sub-arcsecond width. Each element can observe with two receiv
ers simultaneously, with 2 GHz bandwidth each. The digital correlator backend allows flexible allocation of thousands o
f spectral channels to each receiver.
December 26, 2007Jets Are a Real DragAstronomers have found the best evidence yet of matter spiraling outward from a young, still-forming star in fountain-like jets.
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December 18, 2007New View of Distant Galaxy Reveals Furious Star FormationA furious rate of star formation discovered in a distant galaxy shows that galaxies in the early universe developed either much faster or in a different way from what astronomers have thought.
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The Submillimeter Array is a joint project between the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory and the Academia Sinica Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics and is funded by the Smithsonian Institution and the Academia Sinica.