#atrasc2024 — Public Fediverse posts

And of course NRAO’s Central Development Lab is heavily invested in the next generation VLA (ngVLA)

#ATRASC2024 #URSI #NRAO #CDL #ngVLA

Lots of work at the CDL having to do with the ALMA Wideband Sensitivity Upgrade and Band 6 version 2. #ATRASC2024 #URSI #NRAO #CDL #ALMA #WSU #AtacamaLargeMillimeterSubmillimeterArray #WidebandSensitivityUpgrade

My colleague Cristina García-Miró took some pictures about my talk on Monday. I spoke mostly about the engineering and programmatic updates from the Wideband Sensitivity Upgrade, and the teams behind it. Sean’s talk today (see link) focuses on the advantages of the WSU to astronomers.

https://astrodon.social/@juandesant/112483716032483127

#ATRASC2024 #URSI #ALMA #AtacamaLargeMillimeterSubmillimeterArray #WSU #WidebandSensitivityUpgrade

Bert Hawkins is giving a prerecorded talk on the work of the Central Development Lab from NRAO.

#ATRASC2024 #URSI #NRAO #CDL

Coming next, Yashwant Gupta will talk about the GMRT activities.

(We’ve been going quickly, so we’re killing time to get the program aligned for people hopping across sections.)

#ATRASC2024 #URSI #GMRT

Finally, an upgrade to ASKAP to be better at detecting Fast Radio Bursts
#ATRASC2024 #URSI #ATNF #ASKAP #CSIRO #CRACO #FRB #FastRadioBursts

And also great results from the Australian SKA precursor, a survey-oriented array. #ATRASC2024 #URSI #ATNF #ASKAP #CSIRO

Great result about the polarization of radio emissions from magnetars from Parkes/Murriyang. #ATRASC2024 #URSI #ATNF #Parkes #TheDish #murriyang

Next up is Stephanie Smith, with an update about ATNF, that includes Parkes (Murriyang), ATCA, ASKAP, and the future SKA1_Low.

Plus, the Long Baseline Array.

#ATRASC2024 #URSI #ATNF

And of course the next big thing for ALMA is the Wideband Sensitivity Upgrade…
#ATRASC2024 #URSI #ALMA #AtacamaLargeMillimeterSubmillimeterArray #WSU #WidebandSensitivityUpgrade

ALMA is getting more than one publication per day, around 500 per year.
#ATRASC2024 #URSI #ALMA #AtacamaLargeMillimeterSubmillimeterArray

Risks coming from being constructed and operating for a couple of decades… #ATRASC2024 #URSI #ALMA #AtacamaLargeMillimeterSubmillimeterArray

A great improvement for ALMA operations: we now have fully automated processing and delivery for some data, and we’re trying to get the majority of them in this way for the future.
#ATRASC2024 #URSI #ALMA #AtacamaLargeMillimeterSubmillimeterArray

Sean Dougherty talking about the latest status report for ALMA, including the fact that we had our 10 years celebration and conference.

#ATRASC2024 #URSI #ALMA #AtacamaLargeMillimeterSubmillimeterArray

Sorry, no live or batch tooting yesterday from #URSI #ATRASC2024, trying to resume today…

Nice talk about the Gauribidanur Radio Observatory building a simple all-sky 1-bit digitization system that allows to create beams a posteriori…
#ATRASC2024 #URSI #GauribidanurRadioObservatory #LowFrequency #radioastronomy

Mention of the Julia programming language for the simulation of interleaved analog to digital conversion. #ATRASC2024 #URSI #Metsahovi #Julia #JuliaLang

Bela Dixit is talking about the upgrades to the Finnish Metsahovi radio telescope. Many similarities to our upgrade, but for a single dish system.

https://www.aalto.fi/en/services/metsahovis-main-receivers

#ATRASC2024 #URSI #Metsahovi

Very nice talk on LOFAR rebuilding of their control system, all based on open source components, including PyTANGO as SCADA.

Lots of emphasis on observability!

#ATRASC2024 #URSI #LOFAR #LOFAR2 #SCADA #PyTANGO #SoftwareDevelopment #AstroSoftwareDevelopment

Miguel Sánchez-Portal said that they’ve been closed for 11 months for this upgrade, plus 2-3 months for the surface repainting. #IRAM #IRAM30m #ATRASC2024 #URSI

Very interesting couple of slides from the NOEMA presentation: compared to 20 years ago, only 4 sub-millimeter arrays remain.
#ATRASC2024 #URSI #IRAM #NOEMA #ALMA #AtacamaLargeMillimeterSubmillimeterArray #interferometry

Just gave my talk! Seems to have gone well 😉

#ATRASC2024 #URSI #WidebandSensitivityUpgrade #ALMA #AtacamaLargeMillimeterSubmillimeterArray

The IRAM 30m was inaugurated 40 years ago! 6000h/year of observing time!

So, it’s time for an upgrade…
#ATRASC2024 #URSI #IRAM #IRAM30m

Radio Astronomy in Spain started with the host-country time observations from Riu et al. (University of Barcelona) of a radio source occulted by the moon. #ATRASC2024 #URSI

Cristina Garcia Miro now bringing us the late start, hectic present, and promising future of radio astronomy in Spain.
#ATRASC2024 #URSI

Plan B: will not be live tooting, but batch tooting… I’ll still hope you’ll find it useful! #ATRASC2024 #URSI

I’ll try to be life-tooting from #ATRASC2024 today: wish me luck! #URSI