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The UK Astronomy Technology Centre (UK ATC) is based at the Royal Observatory in Edinburgh, Scotland, and is part of the Science and Technology Facilities Council. The UK ATC designs, builds, develops, tests and manages major instrumentation projects in support of UK and international Astronomy. It has design offices, workshops and test facilities for both ground- and space-based instruments, including a suite of test labs capable of handling the largest current and projected instruments.〔(UK Astronomy Technology Centre ). UK ATC information sheet. Retrieved 5 January 2011.〕〔(Facilities and expertise ). UK ATC information sheet. Retrieved 5 January 2011.〕 The UK ATC was formed in 1998 in Edinburgh from the technology departments of the Royal Observatory, Edinburgh (ROE), and the Royal Greenwich Observatory, Cambridge (RGO). Its initial "customers" were the then new Gemini Observatory, the former ROE observatories in Hawaii (the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (JCMT) and the United Kingdom Infrared Telescope (UKIRT)), and a former RGO observatory, the Isaac Newton Group on La Palma, Canary Islands.〔(UK ATC history ). UK ATC. Retrieved 1 April 2012.〕 More recently, collaboration with the European Southern Observatory (ESO) and for the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have gained importance.〔 Major projects and collaborations include: * Several first-generation instruments for the Gemini Observatory.〔〔(GCAL The Gemini Facility Calibration Unit ). UK ATC. Retrieved 5 January 2011.〕〔(GMOS ). UK ATC. Retrieved 5 January 2011.〕〔(GPol ). UK ATC. Retrieved 5 January 2011.〕 * A mid-infrared spectrometer for the UKIRT and the Gemini Observatory.〔(Michelle ). UK ATC. Retrieved 5 January 2011.〕 * Data acquisition and reduction software for the UKIRT and the JCMT.〔(ORAC ). UK ATC. Retrieved 5 January 2011.〕 * The Wide Field Infrared Camera for the UKIRT.〔(WFCAM ). UK ATC. Retrieved 5 January 2011.〕 * The Spectral and Photometric Imaging Receiver of the Herschel Space Observatory.〔(SPIRE ). UK ATC. Retrieved 5 January 2011.〕 * The Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for UK universities and ESO.〔(VISTA ). UK ATC. Retrieved 5 January 2011.〕 * A high-sensitivity, wide-field, sub-millimetre camera for the JCMT (SCUBA2).〔(SCUBA 2 ). UK ATC. Retrieved 5 January 2011.〕 * The Mid-Infrared Instrument for the JWST.〔(MIRI ). UK ATC. Retrieved 5 January 2011.〕 * Observing tool software for the Atacama Large Millimeter Array.〔(ALMA – The Atacama Large Millimetre Array ). UK ATC. Retrieved 5 January 2011.〕 * Design studies for ESO's European Extremely Large Telescope.〔(The UK role in the European Extremely Large Telescope ). UK ATC. Retrieved 5 January 2011.〕 * An infrared K-band multi-object spectrometer for ESO's Very Large Telescope.〔(KMOS ). UK ATC. Retrieved 5 January 2011.〕 * The European Union funded Optical Infrared Coordination Network for Astronomy (OPTICON).〔(OPTICON ). UK ATC. Retrieved 5 January 2011.〕 Following increased government emphasis on knowledge transfer and declining funds for the Science and Technology Facilities Council〔Paul Crowther (2007-2011). (STFC Funding Crisis: Astronomy ). Retrieved 5 January 2011.〕 the UK ATC is increasingly working on projects with astronomical institutions beyond the UK and the EU, with institutions dedicated to science and technology other than astronomy, and with technology-related businesses.〔(ATC Innovations – what we offer ). UK ATC. Retrieved 5 January 2011.〕 == Gallery == Agreement signed to build HARMONI spectrograph for the E-ELT.jpg|UK Astronomy Technology Centre makes part in the consurtium that builds instruments for E-ELT.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.eso.org/public/announcements/ann15070/ )〕 UK ATC lab 1.jpg|"Flexure rig" to simulate operational movement on a telescope. UK ATC lab 2.jpg|Lab with clean room. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「UK Astronomy Technology Centre」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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