1. 30/11/051 The Millimetre-Wave Astronomy White Paper Michael Burton UNSW

2. 30/11/052 What place for millimetre-wave in Australian radio astronomy for the next decade? ALMA 2012? SKA 2020? Maintaining the vitality of the astronomical community till SKA

3. MM White Paper3 Australian MM-Wave Facilities ATCA, Mopra, Parkes, Tidbinbilla 3 + 7 + 12 mm (100 + 50 + 20 GHz) Interferometry + OTF mapping Broad band + Spectroscopy

4. MM White Paper4 What’s coming in Australia 8 GHz correlator for Mopra 2 GHz correlator for ATCA 7 mm system for ATCA + Mopra 115 GHz extension for ATCA?

5. MM White Paper5 NANTEN2 4m HEAT 0.5mSPT 10mAST/RO 1.7m APEX 12mASTE 12m

6. MM White Paper6 What’s coming now in the South Atacama Plateau of Chile –4m NANTEN2 –12m APEX –12m ASTE –Plus, of course, ALMA Antarctica –1.7m AST/RO –10m South Pole Telescope –0.5m HEAT (THz frequencies)

7. MM White Paper7 What role for Australia’s facilities? They’re here now! –only southern interferometer for > 5 years 7+12mm unchallenged, 3mm largely so. Broad Band, Fast Mapping. Complementarity to the Chilean / Antarctic facilities?

8. MM White Paper8 Science Drivers: Formation Processes When Planets are young When Stars are young When Galaxies were young When the Universe was young

9. MM White Paper9 MM Windows 12 mm – ATCA 7 mm – ATCA 3 mm – ATCA 2 mm – Oz! sub-mm – ALMA MIR+ 200+300µm – Dome C far-IR – Dome A Massive Protostar z~6 Starburst / AGN

10. MM White Paper10 Science Drivers: I Evolution of circumstellar disks Search for biogenic molecules Evolutionary sequence for MSF Turbulence-regulated star formation? Star formation in other environments –The LMC & SMC

11. MM White Paper11 Science Drivers: II Extragalactic star formation –calibrating the Schmidt Law and the radio- FIR relation Star formation history of the Universe –red-shifted CO as a proxy for SFR Unique objects –SN1987A –The Central Molecular Zone

12. 30/11/0512 Science Drivers: III Other ideas welcome!

13. MM White Paper13 Include possible future enhancements 115 GHz extension to ATCA Adjustable secondaries Real time phase monitoring Million channel spectrometers Focal Plane Arrays –or re-shape dish for a multi-beam? Need to have science drivers!

14. MM White Paper14 Science Drivers vs. Capabilities

15. MM White Paper15 MM White Paper: the process 1. First Draft for MM Science + ATUC meetings (30/11/05 + 01/12/05) 2. Open invitation for contributions 3. Second draft for “Future directions for southern hemisphere mm-wave astronomy” meeting 30-31/03/06 Place in the international context, esp. Chilean facilities Funding sources? 4. MM White Paper delivered to ATUC for June 06 meeting

16. 30/11/0516 Please contribute! mmscience.atnf.csiro.au