The Onsala Space Observatory

by Hans Olofsson (Astronomy, SU)

Thursday 9 Mar 2006, 10:00 → 11:00 Europe/Stockholm

Onsala Space Observatory (OSO) is the Swedish National Facility for Radio Astronomy. As such it provides Swedish astronomers with different observing facilities within the cm to sub-mm wavelength range. It operates two telescopes at Onsala (a 25m cm-wave telescope, a 20m mm-wave telescope), it is actively involved in the Atacama Pathfinder Experiment (APEX; a 12m sub-mm telescope in the Chilean Andes), it is a member of the European Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) Network, and it operates the Odin satellite data centre. It is also actively involved in future major radio astronomy projects, e.g., the Atacama Large Millimetre Array (ALMA), the Low Frequency Array (LOFAR), the Square Kilometer Array (SKA), the Herschel sub-mm to far-infrared observatory satellite, and e-VLBI (i.e., real-time VLBI through public networks). The full activity at OSO will be presented, with an emphasis on the technical aspects.

Slides 60309_Onsala.pdf