Greenland Telescope Project

The Greenland Telescope (GLT) Project is a telescope at sub-millimeter wavelengths to achieve high angular resolutions using Very Long Vaseline Interferometry (VLBI), combined with the other sub-millimeter (submm) telescopes in the world. Recently, submm VLBI is getting active in the East Asia region, including Hawaii. This will provide a better network in submm VLBI. The anticipated angular resolution is 20 micro arc seconds at 350 GHz, which enables us to identify a shadow image of a super massive black hole located at the center of galaxy. As the GLT will be located on the top of the ice sheet in Greenland, it will provide a capability to make single dish observations at Tera-Hertz regime. In 2016, the telescope components are shipped to Greenland to reassemble it after retrofitting for the cold environment.