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  1. An Update on the Chinese Space Station Telescope Project Hu Zhan, National Astronomical Observatories, CAS, KIAA, Peking University, On behalf of the CSST Team, ISSI-BJ Workshop: Weak gravitational lensing studies from space missions, Beijing, 2019.11.05
  2. The Chinese Survey Space Telescope (a.k.a. the Chinese Space Station Telescope), Hu Zhan, NAOC & PKU, UV Club, Caltech 2021.09.22

In the 2nd link on slide 7 in the table of specifications:

Wavelength 0.255-1 μm, 0.9-1.7 μm, 0.41-0.51 THz

Near-Terahertz radio astronomy is a regular thing, ALMA's band 10 goes up to 0.95 THz for example

and the famous images "of" supermassive black holes (M78* and Sgr A*) were made at about 0.23 THz. The Xuntian space telescope's range is between these.

And I think the Sofia measurements were at about 2 THz:

Question: How will China's Xuntian (the Chinese Survey Space Telescope) use its Terahertz capability? THz Spectroscopy? Imaging? Something else?

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