ALMA First Fringes at Chajnantor
A team of astronomers and engineers at ALMA have made interferometric measurements of radio signals from an astronomical source from the observatory's "high site", which is at an altitude of 5000 meters. These observations used the full suite of the production equipment that has been developed for ALMA, including two high-precision 12-meter diameter antennas and sophisticated electronic systems for receiving and correlating the signals. This is the first time that all these complex items, almost all of which are at the leading edge of technology, have been used together as a complete system. AOS (Array Operations Site) Interferometer© ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO), Alvaro Quintana and Jose Olivares (ALMA)
A team of astronomers and engineers at ALMA have made interferometric measurements of radio signals from an astronomical source from the observatory's "high site", which is at an altitude of 5000 meters. These observations used the full suite of the production equipment that has been developed for ALMA, including two high-precision 12-meter diameter antennas and sophisticated electronic systems for receiving and correlating the signals. This is the first time that all these complex items, almost all of which are at the leading edge of technology, have been used together as a complete system.
AOS (Array Operations Site) Interferometer© ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO), Alvaro Quintana and Jose Olivares (ALMA)
Submillimetric astronomy may not make as pretty pictures as optical astronomy, but it is scientifically important too !
(And one of the people working on the project is my father, too...) Un roi sans divertissement est un homme plein de misères
Chatacama desert, the driest air you can find, at an altitude of 5000 m... Un roi sans divertissement est un homme plein de misères
driest air you can find, at an altitude of 5000 m
Another benefit of Chili is that there is only the Pacific ocean upwind, so there is very little turbulence in the air above the telescopes. Un roi sans divertissement est un homme plein de misères
