Plateau de Bure Interferometer

Figure 4.2 The molecular disk around LkCa 15 observed in lines of the CO isotopomers with the Plateau de Bure interferometer by Pietu et al. (2007).

Kastner et al 1997 Aikawa et al. 2003 Dutrey et al. 2007a Qi et al. 2008). Observational facilities, such as the Plateau de Bure interferometer (France), Owens Valley Radio Observatory (USA), Submillimeter Array (USA), and Nobeyama Millimeter Array (Japan), have permitted measurements of nearby systems such as DM Tau, LkCa 15, AB Aur, and TW Hya, see e.g. Fig. 4.2. 

Fig. 2.8 Sketches of planned or proposed future telescopes. From left to right, top row. the space telescopes JWST (James Webb Space Telescope, currently in construction, image credit NASA) and SPICA (JAXA project, image credit JAXA) bottom row. the ground based telescopes ALMA (in construction, image credit ESO/NOAJ/NRAO), Extremely Large Telescope (ELT, ESO project). Plateau de Bure Interferometer (PdBI) (in operation, proposal for extension as NOEMA, image credit IRAM)...

The Plateau de Bure Interferometer (PdBl) located in the French Alps, and the Atacama Large (sub)Millimeter Array (ALMA) (http //www.almaobservatory.org/) located in Chile are among the most sensitive (sub)miHimetre radio interferometers. When its construction is complete, ALMA will provide imprecedented sensitivity for detection and imaging, with its 50 antenna network and its complementary arrays increasing the sensitivity to extended emission. 

Pety J, Gueth F, Guilloteau S, Dutrey A (2006) Plateau de Bure interferometer observations of the disk and outflow of HH 30. Astron Astrophys 458 841... 

The radiotelescopes at IRAM (Institut de Radioastronomie Millimdtrique), a French-Spanish-German consortium, can lay claim to a good few discoveries of new cosmic molecules over the past ten years. The IRAM interferometer on the Plateau de Bures in France combines signals gathered by five parabolic antennas. It has an angular resolution of 0.5 arcsec at 1.3 mm. 

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