On October 10th to 12th, we held the fourth AtLAST consortium meeting at ESO headquarters in Garching, Germany, using a hybrid format. We had a record attendance, with about 25 consortium members joining in person, and about 20 more on Zoom. Exciting progress has been made in all the different work packages, as we now approach the end of the design study phase.
The AtLAST consortium releases a sensitivity calculator that allows astronomers to determine the integration time needed for an observation to be precise enough to test a particular scientific theory, demonstrating what AtLAST will be able to do for their science.
A new status update on the design of the antenna was presented on August 23, 2023, at the URSI GASS 2023 conference in Sapporo, Japan, by Patricio Gallardo, a fellow at the University of Chicago’s Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics (KICP), on behalf of the AtLAST team.
Over the summer, the Department of Technology Systems (ITS) at the University of Oslo warmly welcomed three students to work on topics related to the AtLAST project.
How windy does it get on the Chajnantor Plateau in the Chilean Andes? The AtLAST-team has installed a high-tech, weather tower for measuring the wind speed on the prospective AtLAST sites.
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