ALMA Project News ALMA Director, Project Manager, and Deputy Project Manager Named... Construction at the Array Operations Site (AOS)... Construction at the Operations Support Facility (OSF)... Activities at the ALMA Test Facility... ALMA Simulations Workshop... Read more...

An ALMA Workshop on Massive Star Formation NRAO and the University of Virginia Astronomy Department hosted the third annual NAASC Workshop on Transformational Science with ALMA, September 25-27 at the Omni Hotel in Charlottesville. The meeting, entitled “The Birth and Feedback of Massive Stars Within and Beyond the Galaxy,” drew record interest from the international scientific community and filled the 150-person venue to capacity. Read more...

New Research Center Will Free Chemistry from Earth's Bonds The NRAO is a partner in a new research center that will combine the tools of chemistry and astronomy to use the unique laboratory of interstellar space to free the study of basic chemistry from the restrictive bonds of Earth. Read more...

GBT Dynamic Scheduling Beta Test Ends September 30 marked the end of the summer test period for the beta version of the Green Bank Telescope’s new Dynamic Scheduling System (DSS). The DSS test period was designed to allow the Green Bank team to test both the software and the policies planned for the final GBT dynamic scheduling system which is planned to be released in 2009. Read more...

GBT Precision Telescope Control System (PTCS) Update During the summer GBT maintenance season, engineers performed a comprehensive service effort on the active surface hardware. Repairs were performed on a number of actuators with broken cables, unstable LVDT modules, and other maladies. Read more...

NRAO Welcomes New Assistant Director for Green Bank Operations We are pleased to announce that Karen O'Neil has been named the new Assistant Director for Green Bank Operations, effective October 1, 2008. Karen has done an outstanding job as the Interim Assistant Director for Green Bank since May 2008, when she stepped in following the departure of Richard Prestage. Read more...

NRAO Lab Notebook: Imaging & Calibration Algorithm Research at the NRAO Next generation radio telescopes under construction at NRAO and elsewhere in the world promise at least a ten-fold increase in the achievable sensitivity. Some of the research on imaging and calibration algorithms at NRAO in the past several years has been focused on solving the problem of correcting instrumental and atmospheric effects that vary across the telescope field of view. Read more...

Career Opportunities

• 2009 Jansky Fellowship Program
• NRAO Tenure Track Astronomer
• NAASC Scientist - CASA Scientific Software Developer
• NAASC Scientist - Commissioning Liaison
• NAASC Postdoctoral Fellow - Splatalogue
• NAASC Postdoctoral Fellow - CASA
• ALMA Commissioning Scientists

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Library The NRAO Library has opened NRAOPapers for the public. This database has full citations and information on NRAO telescopes, NRAO proposal numbers plus other information of interest. In addition, NRAOPapers links to ADS for records having an ADS entry. Read more...

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