From awootten at nrao.edu Thu Nov 6 07:31:59 2014 From: awootten at nrao.edu (awootten) Date: Thu, 06 Nov 2014 07:31:59 -0500 Subject: [mmaimcal] ALMA reaches its higher resolution modes Message-ID: <545B6A3F.8010301@nrao.edu> Folks, I'm unsure how many of these emails still function. As you may know, ALMA reached the end of construction on the schedule and budget agreed by the partners and their funding agencies on 2014 September 30. We all appreciate the efforts you put in to bring this about. A late stage of development has been to implement the long baselines, which have demanding infrastructure and implementation needs. However, the team in Chile led by Stuartt Corder, Tony Remijan, Cat Vlahakis and aided by many others has produced some spectacular results, one of which was the subject of a press release today. In my wildest dreams I never thought the long baselines would produce such stupendous results so quickly upon using them. The image looks better than the simulations Lee Mundy and colleagues made in the 90s. Congratulations to the team! https://public.nrao.edu/news/pressreleases/planet-formation-alma NSF/NRAO Google Hangout to discuss these findings (6 November 2014; 10 a.m. E.S.T.): https://plus.google.com/events/ceul1hkj60se5uts2u75rgqe7rc Clear skies, Al -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From scorder at alma.cl Thu Nov 6 07:37:04 2014 From: scorder at alma.cl (Stuartt Corder) Date: Thu, 06 Nov 2014 09:37:04 -0300 Subject: [mmaimcal] ALMA reaches its higher resolution modes In-Reply-To: <545B6A3F.8010301@nrao.edu> References: <545B6A3F.8010301@nrao.edu> Message-ID: <545B6B70.5070408@alma.cl> And I would add Ed Fomalont very high up on the list of people contributing to this. The managers should get some credit, but Ed has been the technical lead on the campaign details since inception. I still remember the first hour long discussion we had about this, oh, roughly a year ago in my office, on the board, drawing up things. It was fun. Of course, none of this would have been possible without over a decade of work by many people, including many on this distribution. > > I'm unsure how many of these emails still function. As you may know, > ALMA reached the end of construction on the schedule and budget agreed > by the partners and their funding agencies on 2014 September 30. We > all appreciate the efforts you put in to bring this about. A late > stage of development has been to implement the long baselines, which > have demanding infrastructure and implementation needs. However, the > team in Chile led by Stuartt Corder, Tony Remijan, Cat Vlahakis and > aided by many others has produced some spectacular results, one of > which was the subject of a press release today. > > In my wildest dreams I never thought the long baselines would produce > such stupendous results so quickly upon using them. The image looks > better than the simulations Lee Mundy and colleagues made in the 90s. > Congratulations to the team! > > https://public.nrao.edu/news/pressreleases/planet-formation-alma > > NSF/NRAO Google Hangout to discuss these findings (6 November 2014; 10 > a.m. E.S.T.): > > https://plus.google.com/events/ceul1hkj60se5uts2u75rgqe7rc > > Clear skies, > Al > > > > > _______________________________________________ > mmaimcal mailing list > mmaimcal at listmgr.nrao.edu > https://listmgr.nrao.edu/mailman/listinfo/mmaimcal -- Dr. Stuartt Allan Corder Interim Deputy Director Atacama Large Millimeter/ Submillimeter Array Alonso de C?rdova 3107 Vitacura - Santiago Chile +56 97 959 8614 (cell) +56 22 467 6373 (office) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: