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A Survey of Australian Sites Suitable for Telescopes Operating at mm-wavelengths

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 April 2016

N. Fourikis ,
K. N. R. Taylor  and
S. Sakelis
N. Fourikis
Affiliation:
Physics Department, University of NSW
K. N. R. Taylor
Affiliation:
Physics Department, University of NSW
S. Sakelis
Affiliation:
Physics Department, University of NSW
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MM-(millimetre) wave astronomy offers over one hundred gigahertz of explorable spectrum within which the transitions of a large number of important molecules occur. Some of these molecules are as simple as carbon monoxide while others are as complex as trans-ethyl alcohol and methylamine; the former species are widely distributed in the Galaxy while the latter species are more localized in extent.

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Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia , Volume 4 , Issue 4 , 1982 , pp. 480 - 482
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Copyright © Astronomical Society of Australia 1982

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