2006.03.24
ALMA Board in Kyoto
From March 22 through 24, ALMA Board meeting was held at Kyoto Research Park for the first time in Japan. Norio Kaifu, Director General of NAOJ, attended the m…
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2006.03.21
Steel framing of the AOS Technical Building completed
Construction of the AOS building (5050 m asl) is proceeding at a fast pace in Chile. As steel framing has been completed, our work is shifting to walling of th…
2006.03.07
6th Millimeter/submillimeter Receiver Workshop
On March 6 and 7, the 6th Millimeter/submillimeter Receiver Workshop was held at Osaka Prefecture University. More than 80 people participated in the workshop,…
2006.03.04
Office building and Southern Cross
There has been no rain since the end of November last year in Santiago. As the season when the city is covered with a smoggy haze is yet to come, we can see st…
2006.03.03
3rd ALMA Science Workshop
ALMA Science Working Group held its 3rd workshop in Mitaka from March 2 to 3. The purpose of this workshop is to discuss a wide variety of research themes rela…
2006.02.27
ALMA Video-3 "Antenna Evaluation at the ATF" was released.
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2006.02.20
Restoration of Japan's first radio telescope
Along with the development of cutting-edge equipment for ALMA, restoration of Japan’s first radio telescope is proceeding at NRO. This is a telescope ins…
2006.02.04
Science Live Show at Science Museum
Science Live Show “Universe” was held at Science Museum. Kaoru Kimura guided “Walk in the Solar System” using 3D image. After this, Sei…
2006.02.01
SKA Workshop
Japan Radio Astronomy Forum and Nobeyama Radio Observatory held a two-day joint symposium for SKA project on February 1 and 2. SKA is a project targeting frequ…
2006.01.29
ASAC in Maryland
ALMA Science Advisory Committee was held in Maryland, U.S., on January 28 and 29. Eight participants from Japan attended the committee with U.S. and European m…
2006.01.28
Disasembly of ALMA-J prototype antenna completed
Disassembly of Japanese prototype antenna has been completed at ALMA Test Facility within VLA (Very Large Array), New Mexico, U.S.. The picture shows the trail…
2006.01.23
Constellation camera opened its English webpage
In December last year, one of the “i-CAN” constellation cameras was installed at the ALMA Operations Support Facility (OSF). After fixing some prob…
2006.01.17
Disasembly of ALMA-J prototype antenna
Disassembly of the tested ALMA-J prototype antenna is proceeding steadily at the ALMA Test Facility within the VLA site of NRAO (National Radio Astronomy Obser…
2006.01.15
Chileans elected their first woman president
Chilean presidential election is held every four years (incumbent president is not allowed to run for consecutive terms in office). In this presidential electi…
2006.01.14
Concrete placing for ACA correlator room completed
Concrete placing for the ACA correlator room at the Array Operations Site (AOS) has been completed. The picture shows Seiichi Sakamoto standing on the concrete…
2006.01.11
Soil testing at ACA site
Basic soil testing was conducted at the proposed ACA site, and the ground was found as firm as other sites. The picture shows a local staff measuring the depth…
2006.01.04
NAOJ Director General's new year speech
Norio Kaifu, Director General of NAOJ gave an annual new year speech at Mitaka, which was shared with three other observatories using videoconference system): …
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