The current status?

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the GLT is now deployed.  it has been pointed optically at stars and the moon.  it has detected signals in the radio wavelengths with two of the three receivers, at 86GHz and 230GHz. 

the 230GHz receiver will be used for the april event horizon telescope (EHT) experiment, so we must have it working.  the GLT as a stand-alone telescope can make images of sources on the sky.  point sources will just look like a point, but the moon is extended enough relative to the resolution of the telescope, that we will be able to make an image of the moon.  since we have 3 receivers at 3 different wavelengths, we will have three images with sharper resolution as we go to shorter wavelengths.  

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這是次毫米波特長基線干涉儀在格陵蘭望遠鏡加入後可望取得的M87黑洞陰影之電腦模擬。

角解析力為40微角秒。

電腦模擬圖像取得方法是「光束追蹤法」。

電腦模擬運算條件為：一個質量為太陽60億倍的超大質量黑洞，處於無自旋狀態、黑洞周圍透光度高（有陰影）、且誤植成自由掉落狀態（角動量未計算）。

(Credit: 中研院天文所 VLBI / GLT 團隊)