LMT, the Large Millimeter Telescope (LMT), or Gran Telescopio Milimétrico (GTM), a 50-m dish at the top of Sierra Negra, Mexico, starting scientific comissioning in mid-2008.
AzTEC, the Aztronomical Thermal Emission Camera, the 144 spider-web bolometer camera of the LMT, that has obtained scientific 1.1mm imaging campaigns at the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope in Hawaii, USA (2005); and at the Atacama Submillimeter Telescope Experiment, in Chile (2007-2008).
BLAST, the Balloon-borne Large-Aperture Submillimeter Telescope, a 2m dish optimized for imaging at 250-500um that was launched from Kiruna, Sweeden (2005) and Antarctica (2006-2007) to substain 5-15 day observing flights. It has observed an array of galactic and extragalactic fields.
ACT, the Atacama Cosmology Telescope, a 6-m single dish telescope optimized to study the Cosmic Microwave Background and the abundance of clusters in the Universe through the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect. The telescope is operative since the beginning of 2008.
SCUBA2 Cosmology Legacy Project, (S2CLS) is a collaboration of ~100 scientists to exploit the immense increase in mapping speed, fidelity and sensitivity of the new SCUBA2 submillimeter camera on the JCMT at 450 and 850um.
The INAOE Millimeter Cosmology and Instrumentation group is a cohesive team of faculty and students, mainly located at INAOE, but with strong international links and collaborations, that take advantage of the above projects to research galaxy and cluster formation and evolution, the Cosmic Microwave background and its secondary distortions, and the instrumentation necessary to accomplish those projects. Current members of the team are:
Past-members of the group
include: