Proceedings of the
``IRAM Millimeter Interferometry Summer School''
edited by S.Guilloteau
Institut de Radio Astronomie Millimétrique
300 rue de la piscine
F-38406 Saint Martin d'Hères Cedex, FRANCE
In Memoriam
This book is dedicated to the memory of our esteemed colleagues
Bernard AUBEUF and Patrick VIBERT had been with the IRAM interferometer since the very beginning of its construction. With the help of Henri GONTARD, they had assumed the difficult task of handling the cable car, the general maintenance of the Plateau de Bure buildings, as well as long days of snow clearing to allow the configuration changes in winter. Francis GILLET and Roland PRAYER had been regularly joining the IRAM staff for the summer maintenance, and for the construction of the antennas.
employees of companies working as contractors for IRAM (either on the baseline extension, or on facilities like telephone equipment) also lost their lives in that accident.
Without their efforts, millimeter astronomy would never have come to the Plateau de Bure site. We wish to dedicate these proceedings to their memory.
Preface
This book contains the proceedings from a summer school held at IRAM in Grenoble from September 14 to September 18, 1998. The school was attended by more than 50 participants from abroad. Not all lectures have been put in written form: the school also included a general introduction to millimeter astronomy by Dr. Clemens THUM (IRAM). A visit of the IRAM interferometer on Plateau de Bure was an essential part of the school, which gave an opportunity to the attendants to confront the concepts described in the lectures to their practical implementation on the site.
The school would not have occurred without the dedication of Mrs Catherine BERJAUD, who kindly took care of all logistics problems before and during the school.
Special thanks are also due to the staff of the Plateau de Bure interferometer, who made possible a visit to the site despite the inherent difficulties to handle such a large group of persons.
We also thank Alain PERRIGOUARD and Roger AHTCHOU for help with the video equipment which gave us a lot of fun during the ``real time'' sessions.