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A magnum opus on the Chajnantor plateau

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The CONCERTO instrument paves the way to large field-of-view spectro-imagers operating at (sub-)millimetre wavelengths, write Instrument Scientist Alessandro Monfardini and Principal Investigator Guilaine Lagache.

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Fig. 1: The CONCERTO ‘chassis’ flying to APEX.

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    Alessandro Monfardini

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