Recollections of "Tucson Operations"

No books have been published yet on this subject Rather unique monograph presenting one of the key stories in the history of mm-wave observations in the USA (and therefore pretty much in the world) Comes at the right moment The mm-wave part of the spectrum is about the last window that remains to be opened for ground-based astronomy (gravitational waves being the other part) Currently, two major new telescopes (GTM and ALMA) are being built to operate in the mm-wave band They can be seen as a direct spin-off of the Tucson Operations ALMA (see www. alma. nrao. edu/info) is the most internationally and heavily sponsored project (at least 500 million dollar) and will become operational in 2007 With these new tools arriving within a few years, the astronomical community is funding an increasing amount of projects in mm-wave astronomy Includes supplementary material: sn. pub/extras