The Submillimeter Array SMA News
 
The Submillimeter Array (SMA) is an 8-element radio interferometer located atop Mauna Kea in Hawaii. Operating at frequencies from 180 GHz to 700 GHz, the 6m dishes may be arranged into configurations with baselines as long as 509m, producing a synthesized beam of sub-arcsecond width. Each element can observe with two receivers simultaneously, with 2 GHz bandwidth each. The digital correlator backend allows flexible allocation of thousands of spectral channels to each receiver.

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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.
SMA Director: Dr. Ray Blundell
SMA Project Scientist: Dr. Eric Keto
For the latest Newsletter please see: SMA Newsletter February 2013.

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April 25, 2013 Dense Cloud Breaks Rules of Star Formation
article published www.livescience.com
"Researchers are discovering new information about a dark bean-shaped cloud in the center of our galaxy."  
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March 13, 2013 Sun block for the Greater Dog
SMA joins international observatories in the discovery of titanium dioxides TiO2.  
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February 15, 2013 Hydrogen Masers in Space
Astronomers in the 1960s were amazed to discover that molecular clouds in interstellar space sometimes produced natural masers (the radio wavelength analogs of lasers) that shine with bright, narrow beams of radiation.  
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January 10, 2013 A Cloudy Mystery
"Near the crowded galactic center, where billowing clouds of gas and dust cloak a supermassive black hole three million times as massive as the sun- a black hole whose gravity is strong enough to grip stars that are whipping around it at thousands of kilometers per second - one particular cloud has baffled astronomers."  
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