Submillimeter Astronomy

Submillimeter astronomy occupies the boundary between radio and infrared astronomy. As its name implies, the submillimeter wavelength region is at wavelengths less than 1 mm to about 0.3 mm or 300 /rm. Most current submillimeter observations are carried out with special high-precision radio antennas that have smoother and more accurate shapes than antennas used at longer wavelengths. 

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Phillips T G and Keene J 1992 Submillimeter astronomy Proc. IEEE 80 1662-78... 

The Symposium on Infrared and Submillimeter Astronomy was held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.A., on June 8-10, 1976, as an activity associated with the Nineteenth Plenary Meeting of the Committee on Space Research (COSPAR). The Symposium was sponsored jointly by COSPAR, the International Astronomical Union (lAU) and the International Union of Radio Science (URSI). 

This particular Symposium was unique in many ways. It is the first symposium on the subject of infrared and submillimeter astronomy to be held at a COSPAR meeting. It was also one of the rare occasions in which an international group of infrared astronomers, primarily interested in space astronomy, has gathered together to exchange ideas and information. The number of astronomers that attended the Symposium is another indication of the rapid growth and importance of space astronomy in the infrared and submillimeter region of the spectrum. 

G. G. Fazio (ed.), Infrared and Submillimeter Astronomy, All Rights Reserved. 

G. G. Fazio (ed.), Infrared and Submillimeter Astronomy, A i-SA. All Rights Reserved. Copyright 1977 by D. Reidel Publishing Company, Dordrecht-Holland. 

Space Science Board Study on Infrared and Submillimeter Astronomy 1975, National Academy of Sciences, Washington, DC. 

FIGURE 10 Observed absorption spectra of J = Q transition of CO in the atmosphere of Venus. Line center frequency is 115 GHz. (Adapted from Schloerb, R (1985). In Proceedings ESO-IRAM-ONSALA Workshop on Submillimeter Astronomy."... 

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