Year: 2012
Type: book
Abstract: The Arcminute Microkelvin Imager (AMI) is a telescope specifically designed for high sensitivity measurements of low-surface-brightness features at cm-wavelength and has unique, important capabilities. It consists of two interferometer arrays operating over 13.5-18 GHz that image structures on scales of 0.5-10 arcmin with very low systematics. The Small Array (AMI-SA; ten 3.7-m antennas) couples very well to Sunyaev-Zel'dovich features from galaxy clusters and to many Galactic features. The Large Array (AMI-LA; eight 13-m antennas) has a collecting area ten times that of the AMI-SA and longer baselines, crucially allowing the removal of the effects of confusing radio point sources from regions of low surface-brightness, extended emission. Moreover AMI provides fast, deep object surveying and allows monitoring of large numbers of objects. In this White Paper we review the new science - both Galactic and extragalactic - already achieved with AMI and outline the prospects for much more.
DOI: 10.13016/m2mdjd-gdtu
Authors: Grainge, Keith, Alexander, Paul, Battye, Richard, Birkinshaw, Mark, Blain, Andrew, Bremer, Malcolm, Bridle, Sarah, Brown, Michael, Davis, Richard, Dickinson, Clive, Edge, Alastair, Efstathiou, George, Fender, Robert, Hardcastle, Martin, Hatchell, Jennifer, Hobson, Michael, Jarvis, Matthew, Maughan, Benjamin, McHardy, Ian, Middleton, Matthew, Lasenby, Anthony, Saunders, Richard, Savini, Giorgio, Scaife, Anna, Smith, Graham, Thompson, Mark, White, Glenn, Zarb-Adami, Kris, Allison, James, Buckle, Jane, Castro-Tirado, Alberto, Chernyakova, Maria, Deane, Roger, Feroz, Farhan, Santos, Ricardo Genova, Green, David, Hannikainen, Diana, Heywood, Ian, Hurley-Walker, Natasha, Kneissl, Ruediger, Koljonen, Karri, Kulkarni, Shrinivas, Markoff, Sera, MacTavish, Carrie, McCollough, Michael, Migliari, Simone, Miller, Jon M., Miller-Jones, James, Olamaie, Malak, Paragi, Zsolt, Pearson, Timothy, Pooley, Guy, Pottschmidt, Katja, Rebolo, Rafael, Richer, John, Riley, Julia, Rodriguez, Jerome, Rodriguez-Gonzalvez, Carmen, Rushton, Anthony, Savolainen, Petri, Scott, Paul, Shimwell, Timothy, Tavani, Marco, Tomsick, John, Tudose, Valeriu, van der Heyden, Kurt, van der Horst, Alexander, Varlotta, Angelo, Waldram, Elizabeth, Wilms, Joern, Zdziarski, Andrzej, Zwart, Jonathan, Perrott, Yvette, Rumsey, Clare, Schammel, Michel
Institutions: University of Cambridge, University of Manchester, University of Bristol, University of Leicester, University College London, Durham University, University of Southampton, Dublin Institute For Advanced Studies, University of Hertfordshire, University of Exeter, University of Oxford, University of the Western Cape, University of Birmingham, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, The Open University, University of Malta, The University of Sydney, Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía, Dublin City University, University of Cape Town, Florida Institute of Technology, Aalto University, Curtin University, International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research, Atacama Large Millimeter Submillimeter Array, European Southern Observatory, California Institute of Technology, University of Amsterdam, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Universitat de Barcelona, University of Michigan, Goddard Space Flight Center, European Southern Observatory, Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias
Language: English
Subfield: Astronomy and Astrophysics
Field: Physics and Astronomy
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W1533462932