Introduction

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Oct 2009

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ALMA Newsletter, vol. 3, p. 1-1

Physics

Alma

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It's a very special phase in the development of ALMA, since we successfully transported our first antenna to the high altitude Chajnantor plateau, at 5000 meter altitude. This is clearly the beginning of a new era of the life of ALMA as the first elements of this revolutionary instrument are now getting into place. In the first section of this newsletter, we relate the story of this memorable day and give you the possibility to download images from this undertaking. Then, we highlight three areas in the ALMA project. The first concerns the construction projects, both at the Array Operations Site (AOS) where data will be taken by the antennas and at the Operations Support Facility (OSF) where antenna tests are presently carried out. In a second area, we invite you behind the scenes of ALMA, to discover the day-to-day life of our round-a-clock revolutionary observatory. Finally, the third area is the first of a series of 2 "ALMA in Depth" article about the amazing process that led to the design and construction of the most sophisticated submillimeter wavelength antennas ever made.

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