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Public lecture December 2, 2002


We invite you to the public lecture in Astronomical Institute, Academy of Science of the Czech Republic

Monday December 2, 2002
13:00

in new lecture room in Astronomical Institute Ondrejov
 
 

Toward the sub-mm astronomy in the southern sky: from NANTEN to ALMA

Yasuo Fukui
University of Nagoya, Japan



I will discuss the future prospects of the sub-mm astronomy opened with ALMA. First, I will present the recent results of southern molecular clouds obtained with NANTEN, a 4m radio telescope installed in Chile. The topics include the giant molecular clouds in the LMC and the supergiant shells interacting with them, and the most extensive CO view of the Milky Way, which represents star-forming molecular supershells. These obtained at mm wavelengths should serve as a good dataset to explore the sub-mm wave regime where many high excitation molecular spectra are distributed. In particular, ALMA, a large synthesis sub-mm/mm telescope to be completed in 2011 at Atacama will be most powerful in studying the southern sky. NANTEN, as well as ASTE and APEX, will be moved to Atacama in 2003 and should become a good pilot to first observe the sub-mm southern sky as precursors of ALMA.
 
 

Petr Pravec
organizer