[et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.19.1″ _module_preset=”default” background_color=”#FFFFFF” custom_padding=”30px|||||” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.19.1″ _module_preset=”default” min_height=”90.8px” custom_margin=”|auto|6px|auto|false|false” custom_padding=”||1px|||” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.17.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text” _builder_version=”4.19.1″ _module_preset=”default” text_text_color=”#000000″ text_orientation=”justified” custom_padding=”||0px||false|false” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”]It was early morning in the control room at OSF. Bill Dent was alone with an operator and typing away when the information on his screen began to slow to a complete stop. Unable to communicate with the antennas, they called the engineers to no success. \u201cWe had no contact, so we called management and IT, and that’s when everything went very quiet. That’s when they realized we were being hacked,\u201d he recalls.<\/p>\n
Se trataba del ciberataque sufrido el s\u00e1bado 29 de octubre del 2022, y Bill Dent, nuestro System Astronomer<\/strong>, was a first-row witness to this unforgettable event for the observatory, one of several milestones in which he has been present.[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row column_structure=”3_5,2_5″ _builder_version=”4.19.1″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_column type=”3_5″ _builder_version=”4.19.1″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.19.1″ _module_preset=”default” text_text_color=”#000000″ text_orientation=”justified” custom_padding=”||16px|||” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”]After m\u00e1s de 15 a\u00f1os en ALMA, Bill se jubila<\/strong>, dando paso a una nueva etapa en su vida que se la toma con un humor muy propio de \u00e9l: \u201cEs un poco chocante, pero sabes, es posible, otras personas lo han hecho\u201d, dice con una sonrisa.<\/p>\n From the same office where he’s worked for more than a decade, Bill recalls that he originally only came for three years: \u201cThat’s what I told my wife. So yeah, my kids basically grew up here. They went to school here and spent most of their lives in Chile. I came for three years and stayed for 15.\u201d[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”2_5″ _builder_version=”4.19.1″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/alma.loadingediciones.cl\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/IMG_5041-scaled.jpg” title_text=”IMG_5041″ _builder_version=”4.19.1″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][\/et_pb_image][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row column_structure=”1_2,1_2″ _builder_version=”4.19.1″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_column type=”1_2″ _builder_version=”4.19.1″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/alma.loadingediciones.cl\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/2018-12-07_224555-1.jpg” title_text=”2018-12-07_224555 (1)” _builder_version=”4.19.1″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][\/et_pb_image][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_2″ _builder_version=”4.19.1″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.19.1″ _module_preset=”default” text_text_color=”#000000″ text_orientation=”justified” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”]He was persuaded by Richard Hills, who left his position as a professor of radio astronomy at Cambridge to take over as ALMA Project Scientist. \u201cI was like, ‘Go to Chile? I don’t speak any of the language. But if he gave that up and went to Chile, why can’t I? So yeah, ALMA was an adventure.\u201d<\/p>\n The adventures soon followed. Only a year after arriving in Chile from Scotland, he would experience the 2010 earthquake. [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.19.1″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.19.1″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.19.1″ _module_preset=”default” text_text_color=”#00C0C7″ text_font_size=”24px” text_orientation=”justified” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”]Dos antenas en los inicios de ALMA<\/strong>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row column_structure=”1_2,1_2″ _builder_version=”4.19.1″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_column type=”1_2″ _builder_version=”4.19.1″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/alma.loadingediciones.cl\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/2009-10-26_025231-1.jpg” title_text=”2009-10-26_025231 (1)” _builder_version=”4.19.1″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][\/et_pb_image][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_2″ _builder_version=”4.19.1″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.19.1″ _module_preset=”default” text_text_color=”#000000″ text_orientation=”justified” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”]Bill remembers the early years of the observatory, when there were only two antennas and reaching four was big news. He would go up to the OSF every month to work shifts of up to 14 hours in a control room with 12 other colleagues and 2 operators, suffering the software failures that forced them to reset the system up to ten times in one night: \u201cIt was like fighting fire all the time,\u201d he says.[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.19.1″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.19.1″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.19.1″ _module_preset=”default” text_text_color=”#00C0C7″ text_font_size=”24px” text_orientation=”justified” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”]Protagonista de la historia<\/strong>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row column_structure=”1_2,1_2″ _builder_version=”4.19.1″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_column type=”1_2″ _builder_version=”4.19.1″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.19.1″ _module_preset=”default” text_text_color=”#000000″ text_orientation=”justified” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”]Major ALMA finds have passed through Bill’s eyes: he collaborated on our first official image and in 2014 he was the first person to discover gas in a disk.<\/p>\n \u201cRecuerdo que fui al despacho del director y hab\u00eda otra persona produciendo los primeros datos. El primer anillo empezaba a aparecer en el ruido, y yo pensaba: 'no puede ser real'. Y entonces obtuvimos un poco m\u00e1s de datos y cada vez era m\u00e1s y m\u00e1s profundo, y pod\u00edas ver que estaba saliendo. Eso fue genial, muy emocionante\u201d, relata Bill, al evocar la revelaci\u00f3n de la imagen de HL Tau, en 2014.<\/p>\n He also recalls the excitement of watching his colleagues obtain the first image of a black hole in 2019.[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_2″ _builder_version=”4.19.1″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/alma.loadingediciones.cl\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/2013-10-26_044029-1-e1727447154946.jpg” title_text=”2013-10-26_044029 (1)” _builder_version=”4.19.1″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][\/et_pb_image][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.19.1″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.19.1″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.19.1″ _module_preset=”default” text_text_color=”#00C0C7″ text_font_size=”24px” text_orientation=”justified” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”]El idioma de la ciencia<\/strong>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.19.1″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.19.1″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.19.1″ _module_preset=”default” text_text_color=”#000000″ text_orientation=”justified” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”]Between data and findings, Bill watched the observatory grow, going through as many challenges as a pandemic that paralyzed the world. \u201cI don’t think I’m still really sure it really happened,\u201d he says with a laugh.[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row column_structure=”1_2,1_2″ _builder_version=”4.19.1″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_column type=”1_2″ _builder_version=”4.19.1″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/alma.loadingediciones.cl\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/2018-12-07_232216-1.jpg” title_text=”OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA” _builder_version=”4.19.1″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][\/et_pb_image][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_2″ _builder_version=”4.19.1″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.19.1″ _module_preset=”default” text_text_color=”#000000″ text_orientation=”justified” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”]But the time has come for him to retire. Back in Scotland, he plans to make his house an eco-friendly home, take up his hobby of ham radio and continue doing astronomical research with the data he still has and didn’t get around to writing down. <\/p>\n Before leaving, he describes his years of adventure at ALMA with his characteristic humor: \u201cIf you only have one opportunity to do something and you don’t take it, you miss it. So it’s been great, even though my language skills are crap. It’s amazing how far you can go without mastering the language. People are pretty tolerant if you at least try, right?\u201d.[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.19.1″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.19.1″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.19.1″ _module_preset=”default” text_text_color=”#E09900″ text_font_size=”15px” text_orientation=”center” border_color_all=”#153772″ global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”]A continuaci\u00f3n, haz click en la imagen para rememorar los a\u00f1os de Bill Dent en ALMA. It was early morning in the control room at OSF. Bill Dent was alone with an operator and typing away when the information on his screen began to slow to a complete stop. Unable to communicate with the antennas, they called the engineers to no success. \u201cWe had no contact, so we called management and […]<\/p>\n
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