@InProceedings{Wild_etal2008,
author="Wild, Wolfgang
and Baryshev, Andrey
and de Graauw, Thijs
and Kardashev, Nikolay
and Likhachev, Sergey
and Goltsman, Gregory
and Koshelets, Valery",
title="Instrumentation for Millimetron - a large space antenna for THz astronomy",
booktitle="Proc. 19$^{th}$ Int. Symp. Space Terahertz Technol.",
year="2008",
pages="186--191",
optkeywords="Millimetron space observatory; VLBI",
abstract="Millimetron is a Russian-led 12m diameter submillimeter and far-infrared space observatory which is included in the Space Plan of the Russian Federation and funded for launch after 2015. With its large collecting area and state-of-the-art receivers, it will enable unique science and allow at least one order of magnitude improvement with respect to the Herschel Space Observatory. Millimetron is currently in a conceptual design phase carried out by the Astro Space Center in Moscow and SRON Netherlands Institute for Space Research. It will use a passively cooled deployable antenna with a high-precision central 3.5m diameter mirror and high- precision antenna petals. The antenna is specified for observations up to {\textasciitilde}2 THz over the whole 12m diameter, and to higher frequencies using the central 3.5m solid mirror. Millimetron will be operated in two basic observing modes: as a single-dish observatory, and as an element of a ground-space VLBI system. As single-dish, angular resolutions on the order of 3 to 12 arcsec will be achieved and spectral resolutions of up to 10 6 employing heterodyne techniques. As VLBI antenna, the chosen elliptical orbit will provide extremely large VLBI baselines resulting in micro-arcsec angular resolution. The scientific payload will consist of heterodyne and direct detection instruments covering the most important sub-/millimeter spectral regions (including some ALMA bands) and will build on the Herschel and ALMA heritage.",
optnote="exported from refbase (https://db.rplab.ru/refbase/show.php?record=1412), last updated on Sat, 15 May 2021 22:31:52 -0500",
opturl="https://www.nrao.edu/meetings/isstt/2008.shtml"
}