Springer Millimetre and Submillimetre Astronomy - 1987 Summer School Lectures

This comprehensive volume collects lectures from the 1987 summer school on millimetre and submillimetre astronomy held in Stirling, Scotland. The book covers the 300 to 3000 micrometre spectral region (1000 to 100 GHz), exploring rapid advances in detector and receiver technology that opened up this previously challenging astronomical domain. Published by Springer as part of the Astrophysics and Space Science Library series, it documents the era when major ground-based telescopes including the 15-metre James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (JCMT) and the 10-metre Caltech Submillimetre Observatory (CSO) telescope on Mauna Kea, Hawaii, began transforming observational capabilities. Essential reading for astronomers and researchers studying submillimetre wavelengths and the instrumentation that enabled modern millimetre-wave astronomy.