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The Large Millimeter Telescope (Lmt) Alfonso Serrano: Current Status And Telescope Performance, David H. Hughes, F. Peter Schloerb, Itziar Aretxaga, Edgar Castillo-Domínguez, Miguel Chávez Dagostino, Edgar Colín, Neal Erickson, Daniel Ferrusca Rodriguez, David M. Gale, Arturo Gómez-Ruiz, José Luis Hernández Rebollar, Mark Heyer, James Lowenthal, Alfredo Montaña, Marcos Emir Moreno Nolasco, Gopal Narayanan, Alexandra Pope, Iván Rodríguez-Montoya, David Sánchez-Argüelles, David Smith, Kamal Souccar, Miguel Velázquez De La Rosa Becerra, Grant W. Wilson, Min S. Yun

Astronomy: Faculty Publications

The Large Millimeter Telescope (LMT) Alfonso Serrano is a 50m-diameter single-dish radio telescope constructed at an altitude of 4600 meters on the summit of Volcan Sierra Negra, an extinct volcano in the Mexican state of Puebla. The LMT is a bi-national scientific collaboration between Mexico and the USA, led by the Instituto Nacional de Astrofisica, Optica y Electronica (INAOE) and the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. The telescope currently operates at wavelengths from 4mm to 1mm, and during the dry winter months the LMT site provides the highest levels of atmospheric transmission and potential future access to submillimeter observing windows. …