Upcoming ESO or ESO-related workshops
The goal of this meeting is to encourage coordination in the communities who study the variable, transient and moving objects that the Vera C Rubin observatory’s LSST will discover vast numbers of, to figure out how best ESO’s facilities can provide the necessary follow up.
The workshop will take place at the ESO Headquarters in Garching near Munich and remotely (via MS Teams) from the morning of Tuesday, 23rd until noon of Friday 26th of January. Monday late afternoon/evening is planned for registration and get together.
ALMA is embarking on its most ambitious upgrade since its conception: the Wideband Sensitivity Upgrade (WSU). This upgrade constitutes the top priority of the ALMA 2030 roadmap. It consists of an increase of the instantaneous spectral bandwidth by as much as a factor of four, while retaining full spectral resolution over the entire bandwidth, thus resulting in increases of the spectral scan speed up to a factor of 50 for the highest spectral resolution. In addition, an upgrade of the full signal chain of ALMA – from the receivers and digitizers, all the way through to the correlated data – will result in increases in sensitivity for all observations. ALMA Band 2, the flagship ALMA upgrade project being led by ESO, will be the first receiver to exploit this new, wide bandwidth.
The aim of this workshop is to widely present the upgrade and engage the community by showcasing the science that will be enabled in the upcoming years, during which some changes on scientific operations are expected due to the extent of the upgrade, deployment, and commissioning activities. At the same time, ESO will also solicit input from the ALMA community that will be used to inform priorities during the commissioning phase.