31-03-2025
On Our Way to the Furthest Places. The Large Millimeter Telescope Alfonso Serrano
The Large Millimeter Telescope Alfonso
URLSerrano (http://lmtgtm.org/?lang=en), also known as LMT (or GMT,
its Spanish initials), is a radio telescope
with a 50-meter diameter primary
reflector, designed and optimized to make astronomical observations at millimeter wavelengths,
particularly between 0.85 and 4.0 millimeters. It
is located at the top of the extinct Sierra Negra or
Tliltépetl volcano at an altitude of 4580 meters
above mean sea level, within the Pico de Orizaba
National Park, on the border between the states of
Puebla and Veracruz [Box 1]. It was built through a
binational collaboration between Mexico and the
United States, and it is operated by the National
Institute of Astrophysics, Optics and Electronics
(INAOE) and the University of Massachusetts
Amherst (UMass Amherst).
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