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2005 December 2005 The CSO telescope obtained clear interference fringes with the SMA antennas, as part of the eSMA (expanded Submillimeter Array) project.  Phase variation of fringes on all baselines measured in an eSMA experiment done in December 2005. (Click the figure above to see the enlarged image.) Read more... August 2005 New 350 micron Polarimeter, SHARP, opens its eyes.  The module of the SHARCII polarimeter, SHARP, will split the incident beam, coming from the left, into two orthogonally polarized beams fall onto the SHARCII detectors, shown in the right.   Read more... Go to SHARP web page April 2005 Extremely luminous high redshift ( z > 1) galaxies surveyed with Bolocam at 1.1 mm A new deep survey image towards distant galaxies with Bolocam at 1.1 mm.  Read more... February 2005 CSO Planetary Disk Surveys done with the SHARCII camera. Fomalhaut debris disk image taken with the SHARCII camera.  Read more... 350 micron band molecular line survey towards Orion KL A spectrum towards Orion KL throughout the 350 micron band (from 795 to 903 GHz). Read more... SHARCII captured approximately 50 luminous galaxies A 350 micron SHARCII image of a merger galaxy called Antennae.  Read more... Go back to A Digest of Recent News and Scientific Results at the Caltech Submillimeter Observatory

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