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The Arizona Radio Observatory (ARO) owns and operates two radio telescopes in southern Arizona: The former NRAO 12 Meter (KP12m) Telescope located 50 miles southwest of Tucson on Kitt Peak and the Submillimeter Telescope (SMT) located on Mt. Graham near Safford, Arizona. Combined, the two telescopes routinely cover the entire millimeter and submillimeter windows from about 4.6 mm to about 0.6 mm, and at the SMT observations can be made all the way to 0.3 mm with PI instruments.
The telescopes are operated around-the-clock for about 9 to 10 months per year for a combined 10,000 hours per observing season (about 1500 hours are dedicated to sub-mm wavelengths at the SMT). The ARO offices are centrally located in the Steward Observatory building on the campus of the University of Arizona in Tucson Arizona. ARO is partially funded by the NSF University Radio Observatories (URO) program through grant AST-1140030. Funding for 0.7mmsis receiver development is provided by the NSF Advanced Technologies and Instrumentation (ATI) program through grant AST-0905288. Additional funding for VLBI is provided by NSF ATI. ARO also acknowledges support from the ALMA Development Fund.
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