2011.09.08
ALMA East Asia Development Workshop 2011
On September 8, ALMA East Asia Development Workshop 2011 was held at the NAOJ Mitaka Campus with about 40 participants including researchers and engineers from…
561 - 580 / 923
2011.09.08
On September 8, ALMA East Asia Development Workshop 2011 was held at the NAOJ Mitaka Campus with about 40 participants including researchers and engineers from…
2011.09.02
On September 2, an interferometer test was conducted with the first Japanese 7-m and first 12-m antennas at the Array Operations Site (AOS) at 5000 m asl and i…
2011.08.25
On August 25, one Japanese 7-m antenna was transported from the Operations Support Facility (OSF) at 2900 m asl to the Array Operations Site (AOS) at 5000 m as…
2011.08.20
On August 20, the NAOJ Nobeyama Open Campus 2011 was held at the Nobeyama Radio Observatory (NRO) in Nagano prefecture. Although it rained all day, as many as …
2011.08.13
On August 13, one more 12-m antenna was transported from the Operations Support Facility (OSF/2900 m asl) to the Array Operations Site (AOS/5000 m asl) by the …
2011.08.11
On August 11, an interferometer test using two Japanese 7-m antennas was conducted at the Operations Support Facility (OSF) at 2900 m asl and interference frin…
2011.08.11
On August 6, an interferometer test was conducted at the Array Operations Site (AOS) at 5000 m asl and fringes of 120 baselines were successfully obtained with…
2011.08.05
On July 31, three days after the arrival of the sixteenth antenna at the Array Operations Site (AOS) at 5000 m asl, one more Japanese 12-m antenna was transpor…
2011.08.04
On July 28, one more 12-m antenna was transported from the Operations Support Facility (OSF) at 2900 m to the Array Operations Site (AOS) at 5000 m asl, just a…
2011.07.26
ALMA has four types of antennas (three types of 12-m antennas and one type of 7-m antenna), two of which (one 12-m and one 7-m) are developed and manufactured …
2011.07.22
On June 29, the Manufacturing Readiness Review (MRR) for Band 8 (one of the three receiver cartridges to be developed and manufactured by Japan) was held at t…
2011.07.12
From the end of June through the beginning of July, it snowed heavily in the Atacama Desert in Northern Chile where ALMA is under construction. Since Chile is…
2011.07.04
People from various countries are working on the ALMA project to construct an international astronomical facility in the Atacama Desert in Northern Chile in c…
2011.06.27
While June is a rainy season before summer in Japan, it’s turning into winter in Chile in the southern hemisphere. The city of Santiago, where ALMA-J Chi…
2011.06.17
On June 14, another 12-m antenna was transported from the OSF (2900 m asl) to the AOS (5000 m asl). Now, fifteen 12-m antennas have been installed at the AOS.…
2011.06.10
The Atacama Desert where ALMA is under construction is the habitat of various animals. In the lakeside of the Salar de Atacama (Atacama Salt Lake, 2300 m asl)…
2011.06.08
In the early morning of May 17 (Chilean time), the Salar de Atacama (Atacama Salt Lake, 2300 m asl) turned to an orange color reflecting the morning sun risin…
2011.06.06
On May 30, radio waves emitted by a variable star VX Sagittarii were collected by a Japanese 7-m antenna and a 12-m antenna, and interference fringes were suc…
2011.06.03
On May 26, another 12-m antenna was transported from OSF (2900 m asl) to AOS (5000 m asl). This brought the total number of the antennas at AOS to fourteen. O…
2011.05.24
ALMA Band 10 development team won the 2011 Commendation for Science and Technology by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (priz…
The ACA Spectrometer development team has received the NAOJ Director General’s Award in the Technical and Development C…
An international research team led by Professor Ken-ichi Tadaki of Hokkai-Gakuen University has made a groundbreaking d…
This article is based on the press release issued by the Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Univers…