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November 22, 2003
SMA Dedication Opens Elusive Frontier For Exploration
News Release
Today, one of astronomy's most elusive frontiers in understanding the secrets of the universe was opened wide with the dedication of the Submillimeter Array (SMA) on top of Mauna Kea, Hawaii. The SMA is the world's first imaging telescope array that views the universe at submillimeter wavelengths. It will offer unprecedentedly sharp views of the cold and dusty regions of the universe, including locations where stars and planets are being formed.
October 28, 2002
Groundbreaking Held in Hilo for SMA Operations Facility
News Release
Today, Hawaii officials joined astronomers for a groundbreaking at the site of the new SMA Hilo Operations Facility. This building will be a state-of-the-art facility to provide support for the Submillimeter Array (SMA) on Mauna Kea. The SMA is the world's first imaging array at submillimeter wavelengths, and is a project of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO) and the Academia Sinica Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics (ASIAA) in Taiwan.
January 09, 2002
The SubMillimeter Array Opens One of Astronomy's Last Frontiers
News Release
With four out of the eight antennas now operational, the collection of images from the world's first sub millimeter array (SMA) has begun. Exploring one of astronomy's last frontiers at a site near the summit of Mauna Kea in Hawaii, the SMA offers a unique opportunity to observe objects in unprecedented detail. Acting as an interferometer similar to the Very Large Array in New Mexico, the SMA will ultimately combine the electronic signals from eight 6-meter antennas to imitate the resolving power of a much larger telescope. When placed at their widest separation, the SMA's eight antennas will act like a single giant telescope more than 1,600 feet in diameter, equivalent to the length of five football fields.
January 08, 2002
Structure in Dust Around Vega May Be Signature of Planet
News Release
Astronomers are announcing today that features observed in the dust swirling around the nearby star Vega may be the signatures of an unseen planet in an eccentric orbit around the star. The report is being presented by David Wilner, Matt Holman, Paul Ho and Marc Kuchner of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) in Cambridge, MA to the American Astronomical Society meeting in Washington, DC. This result shows that the gravitational effects of extrasolar planets on circumstellar dust may be used to infer their existence and orbital properties.
December 1998
"FIRST LIGHT" IS A WAKE-UP CALL AS THE SM ARRAY GETS A FRINGE ON TOP
News Release: The CfA Almanac Vol XII No. 3
June 17, 1996
A New Partnership for a New Age of Discovery in Astronomy
News Release
Honolulu, HI--The Submillimeter Array, a uniqueastronomical instrument now being built on MaunaKea, was formally launched today on "a grandadventure of discovery" with the joining ofTaiwan's Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysicsin a partnership with the SmithsonianInstitution's Astrophysical Observatory and theUniversity of Hawaii's Institute for Astronomy.
June 08, 1995
Smithsonian Breaks Ground for Unique Astronomical Instrument on Mauna Kea
News Release
MAUNA KE'A, Hawai'i--Smithsonian Institution Secretary I. Michael Heyman will officiate at the groundbreaking todayfor an unusual array of six antennas that will serve as asingle large telescope sensitive to submillimeterradiation, a region of the spectrum called "the lastfrontier of ground-based observational astronomy."
October 1994
SMA Brochure for Mauna Kea Site
September 1994
R&G Newsletter: 'News From The SMA'
News Release: R&G Newsletter Vol I, No. 5 article by Colin Masson |
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