| The Nobeyama Radio Observatory (NRO) is a division of the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ) under the National Institutes of Natural Sciences (NINS). NRO operates powerful, advanced radio telescopes such as the 45 m radio telescope, the Nobeyama Millimeter Array (NMA), ASTE Submillimeter Telescope at Chile, and the Nobeyama Radioheliograph. A large number of scientists from around the world visit NRO to use these telescopes for researches in astronomy and astrophysics. Maintenance, upgrades, and new technical innovations are ceaselessly made all year round. |
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[45m New Results]
Prediction of the mass of a star to be born
Mass distribution of the cores, the predicted and observed stellar mass distribution.
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[ASTE New Resilts]
Distribution of Highly-excited Gas in the Central Molecular Zone of Our Galaxy
Spatial distributions of molecular gas (upper) and highly-excited gas (lower) in the CMZ of our Galaxy.
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| One of the world's largest radio telescopes operating in short millimeter wavelength. Scientific outcomes from this instrument include discovery of a supermassive black hole and a number of interstellar molecules, and cover wide range of research fields such as formation of stars and planetary systems, structure and activity of galaxies, and interstellar chemistry. |
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| Atacama Submillimeter Telescope Experiment (ASTE) is a project that sets up and operates the first submillimeterwave telescope of 10m class in the southern hemisphere at Atacama Desert in South America Chile.
This project promotes the submillimeter astronomy in the southern hemisphere in order to prove the development of the observational equipments and the technique that supports it. |
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| An array of six transportable antennas separated at the maximum baseline of 600 m, connected with cables to achieve an angular resolution equivalent to that of an antenna of 600 m diameter. Scientific outcomes from this instrument include discovery of a forming galaxy and a protoplanetary gaseous disk. |
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| ALMA is a large radio telescope comprised of 80 antennas, under construction at a 5000 m altitude Chilean plateau as a collaborative project among Japan, North America, and Europe.
Full operations will start in 2012.
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| An array of eighty-four antennas aligned in the T-shaped configuration (E-W 500 m, N-S 220 m) dedicated for solar observations. High speed processing of signals from all antennas generates radio images of the Sun at the maximum rate of 20 images per second. Leading instrument for radio observations of solar flares. |
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