839. WE-Heraeus-Seminar: Charting the Cosmos: From Cosmic Stellar Nurseries to Evolved Stars using High Powered Telescopes

Session

Instrumentation Landscape

Aug 21, 2025, 9:00 AM

Wasem Kloster Engelthal

77. A phanstatic journey: from Effelsberg to the Skies

Rolf Guesten

8/21/25, 9:00 AM

Invited talk

Over the last few decades we (the more mature generation, still born as classical radio astronomers) have experienced a technological revolution. While this is true for many aspects of modern astrophysics, I will highlight the developments that have enabled a truly golden era of submm/far-infrared astronomy. The rapid advances in telescope construction and THz technologies in general have...

94. Opening the Submm- and FIR-Skies: an exciting journey from KOSMA via ASTRO, SMT, NANTEN2, APEX, HIFI/Herschel, GREAT/SOFIA to CCAT/FYST

Juergen Stutzki (University of Cologne)

8/21/25, 9:40 AM

Invited talk

I will review the submm/FIR-instrumentation development int he group at the Universität zu Köln, in close collaboration with MPIfR, over the last 4 decades. The drivers were, first of all and obviously, the science goals and the rapidly progressing receiver technology development, but also the advancing technology and the stepwise better understanding of the atmospheric constraints, and the...

60. Development of Radio Astronomy Infrastructure in Thailand: The Thai National Radio Telescope and Beyond

Koichiro Sugiyama (National Astronomical Research Institute of Thailand (Public Organization))

8/21/25, 10:30 AM

Contributed talk

The Thai National Radio Astronomy Observatory (TNRO), established in Chiang Mai in 2017 by the National Astronomical Research Institute of Thailand, advances radio astronomy and geodesy infrastructure in Thailand. Its centerpiece, the 40-meter Thai National Radio Telescope (TNRT), operates from 0.3-115 GHz, supporting diverse scientific studies like molecular/maser lines and time-domain...

92. Science with AtLAST

Amelie Saintonge (MPIfR)

8/21/25, 11:00 AM

Contributed talk

TBD

88. Moving towards a panchromatic SMA

Raymond Blundell (CfA)

8/21/25, 11:30 AM

Contributed talk

The Submillimeter Array (SMA) plays a leading role in numerous science areas, capitalizing on its strengths as an agile, wideband instrument, situated on Maunakea, Hawaii — the best site for year-round millimeter and submillimeter observing in the Northern hemisphere. The modest scale of the SMA allows for rapid adoption of technical innovations and nimble scheduling of science observations,...

93. Science with SOFIA and the future with CCAT

Juergen Stutzki (University of Cologne)

Contributed talk

TBD