We are happy to announce that ALMA signed a joint proposal agreement with telescopes from the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI), the European Southern Observatory (ESO), and the US National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO). "This is a new service to drive more ambitious science projects that go beyond the capabilities of an individual observatory," explains Sergio Martin, our Operations...
Several colleagues have started to create libraries of specific interests that benefit our entire community. "It all started with a simple request to acquire 1 or 2 technical books of my interest," tells us José Luis Ortiz, Digital Systems Technical Lead, who took the initiative together with the Engineering Service Group team. "But in the process we realized that...
A new year at ALMA came to an end, and along with it we made a recount of the most outstanding events of this 2022. With two activities held at OSF and one at SCO, we gathered again to commemorate with all our colleagues the best of this year and, at the same time, to celebrate the winners of...
Our head of the Logistics Department Claudia Johnson (Claudia Tapia recently changed her legal name) has been working at ALMA for 13 years. But her passion for theater is lifelong. It was one of her first college choices, but she ended up studying engineering. However, the pandemic made her take up theater again and she enrolled in an online...
Students are always very curious to know what the life of an ALMA worker is like. Not only to learn about the discoveries we make. Under this premise, Henry Tapia, Mechanical and HVAC Technics, visited five third grade classes of a school in Quilpué where his granddaughter studies. Through posters, videos, didactic games, and links to the ALMA Kids...
After 10 years of operation there are systems that need to be rethought and adjusted to new technologies due to obsolescence problems. One of the most critical areas is the real-time controller (known as ABMs): there are about 80 such controllers distributed throughout the observatory. To address this challenge, a funding of $CLP 200M was granted by ANID (Chilean...