Major Projects and Collaborations
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HIFI The Heterodyne Instrument for Far Infrared astronomy (HIFI) for the HERSCHEL space observatory |
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SOFIA The Stratospheric Observatory For Infrared Astronomy (external link to the official NASA website) |
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LINC / NIRVANA The Visible / Near-Infrared Interferometric Camera for the Large Binocular Telescope |
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NANTEN2 A 4 m submm telescope at 4800 m altitude in the chilean Atacame desert |
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LEA HiRes at Cologne High Resolution Molecular Spectroscopy |
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MIRI The Mid-Infrared imager and spectrograph for the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) |
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Molecular Nanohybrids solid state dyes, optical bistable molecules, aerogels, time resolved spectroscopy |
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Laboratory Astrophysics
high resolution spectroscopy of ions, molecules and radicals |
GRAVITY The 6-Baseline K-Band Interferometer for the Very Large Telescope |
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Near-Infrared Observations of the Galactic Center | ![]() |
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STO the Stratospheric Terahertz Observatory, is a Long Duration Balloon (LDB) experiment |
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CCAT The Cornell Caltech Atacama Telescope |
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CDMS The Cologne Database for Molecular Spectroscopy |
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KOSMA The 3 m telescope on Gornergrat for observations in the submm and THz region |













