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The Swedish-ESO Submillimetre Telescope, acronym SEST, is a 15m diameter radio telescope, which operates in the frequency range 70 - 365 GHz. It was built in 1987 on the ESO site of La Silla, in the Chilean Andes, at an altitude of 2400 meters. The telescope, as its name implies, has been built on behalf of theThe Swedish Research Council (VR) and the European Southern Observatory (ESO). It is presently the only large millimetre / sub(mm) telescope in the southern hemisphere. On the Swedish side SEST is operated by the Swedish National Facility for Radio Astronomy, Onsala Space Observatory at Chalmers University of Technology , which is responsible for the receivers and the computer software. ESO is responsible for the Mechanical, and computer hardware maintenance as well as maintenance of the control building. |
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