Claudia Cicone (@claudiacicone)

AtLAST Forum - March 2026 - AtLAST Welcome to the AtLAST Forum, a platform for the community to exchange ideas and opinions about the AtLAST project and anything related to it.

🔭 Join our next AtLAST Forum where we will find out about the wind conditions on the Chajnantor Plateau - a key environmental factor when selecting astronomical sites

📅 When: March 5, 2026 | 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM UTC

🔗 More info: www.atlast.uio.no/news-and-eve...

#atlast #forum #submmastronomy

16.02.2026 13:57 👍 5 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 1

ESO white papers in support of AtLAST - AtLAST AtLAST is designed as a once-in-a-generation, transformational facility for the coming decades. At least 27 white papers supporting AtLAST were submitted to ESO's Expanding Horizons call, spanning top...

At least 27 white papers in support of AtLAST were submitted to ESO's Expanding Horizons - a call to select a new ground-based telescope/facility (or upgrade to an existing one) that will transform astronomy, highlighting the scientific potential of AtLAST ✨

www.atlast.uio.no/news-and-eve...

10.02.2026 13:45 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

EAS 2026 European Astronomical Society Annual Meeting 2026

🌟 Join our Special Session at EAS 2026 🌟
Planning the future of large-scale (sub-)mm astrophysics

📡 We invite everyone to contribute to the planning of AtLAST and the future of (sub-)mm astrophysics. Follow the link for more info!

eas.unige.ch/EAS_meeting/...

#EAS2026Lausanne

05.02.2026 10:38 👍 5 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 1

📍@fisicas-ucm.bsky.social @ucm.es
💡 Participa en los casos científicos, el desarrollo de instrumentación y los desafíos en el uso de datos
🤝 Construye colaboraciones en los equipos Españoles y Portugueses de este proyecto puntero
✨ ¡Cualquier nivel de experiencia es bienvenido!

27.01.2026 15:03 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

Iberian AtLAST days 2026 - AtLAST This event will bring together the Spanish and Portuguese (sub-)mm communities to foster scientific and technical synergies around the future AtLAST facility.

Iberian AtLAST Days — 4–5 Junio 2026

¡Buscamos astrónom@s y constructor@s de instrumentación astronómica de España/Portugal!
Ayúdanos a hacer comunidad en torno a #AtLAST, el futuro telescopio sub-mm de 50m diseñado para transformar nuestra visión del Cosmos.

www.atlast.uio.no/news-and-eve...

27.01.2026 15:03 👍 4 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0

📍@fisicas-ucm.bsky.social, Universidad Complutense de Madrid
💡 Explore key science cases, data challenges, and instrumentation opportunities
🤝 Build collaborations and help shape the role of Iberian teams in this exciting project
✨ All expertise levels welcome!

#AtLAST #Astronomy #RadioAstronomy

27.01.2026 15:00 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

Iberian AtLAST days 2026 - AtLAST This event will bring together the Spanish and Portuguese (sub-)mm communities to foster scientific and technical synergies around the future AtLAST facility.

Iberian AtLAST Days — 4–5 June 2026 — Universidad Complutense de Madrid

Calling all astronomers, instrument builders, and data scientists in Spain and Portugal! Join us to kick off community engagement around AtLAST, the future 50m class (sub‑)mm telescope.

www.atlast.uio.no/news-and-eve...

27.01.2026 15:00 👍 6 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0

Braking Good: Turning Telescope Motion into (re-)Usable Power - a4e.org On a crowded planet, astronomers are continuously seeking out pristine locations with low pollution levels (e.g. from light, radio interference, and unwanted chemicals) as well as excellent weather an...

Braking Good: Turning Telescope Motion into (re-)Usable Power
a4e.org/braking-good...

Find out more about the energy recovery system planned for AtLAST in this news item published by @a4e.org

14.01.2026 11:05 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

In case you missed it, yesterdays AtLAST Forum talks are now available on our YouTube channel! Links to both excellent talks here:

Thomas Morris: “A comprehensive simulator for single-dish millimeter-wave Telescopes” youtu.be/RCgbVTShl8U?...

Jonas Wurzinger: “maria goes NIFTY” youtu.be/Hcu7s3J6pm4

21.11.2025 13:29 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1

Logo of the AtLAST sub-mm antenna in the chilean desert, a group of word clouds on top of the antenna with the text FORUM on them.

🔭🧪☄️Join our next AtLAST Forum where we dive into cutting-edge methods for improving (sub-)millimetre single-dish telescope data analysis.
📅 When: November 20, 2025 | 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM UTC
🔗 More info: www.atlast.uio.no/news-and-eve...

#atlast #forum #dataanalysis #simulations #submmastronomy

13.11.2025 12:13 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

Learning Millimeter-Wave Adaptive Optics for AtLAST: Insights from Nobeyama - AtLAST Experts from OHB Digital Connect are collaborating with the Nobeyama team to investigate Millimeter-Wave Adaptive Optics (MAO), a promising technology that could facilitate unprecedented levels of opt...

Millimeter-Wave Adaptive Optics could facilitate unprecedented levels of optical control for #AtLAST. This technology is currently being tested on the Nobeyama 45m Radio Telescope so experts from OHB Digital Connect took a trip to find out more! 📡

www.atlast.uio.no/news-and-eve...

17.11.2025 11:37 👍 7 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0

Pioneering Energy Justice: Astronomy Meets Sustainability in the Atacama Desert - AtLAST Can a telescope lead the way in renewable energy? AtLAST is the first to integrate sustainable sources in its design, aiming to reduce emissions while empowering local communities and bridging the gap...

🧪🔭☄️ The AtLAST telescope in Chile's Atacama Desert could meet 66% of San Pedro de Atacama's electricity demand, cutting costs for residents who pay 2x more than Santiago.
This is energy justice in action. 🌱 www.atlast.uio.no/news-and-eve...

#EnergyJustice #Astronomy #Sustainability

12.09.2025 13:55 👍 10 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0

La Astronomía se Une a la Sustentabilidad en el Desierto de Atacama - AtLAST ¿Puede un telescopio liderar el camino hacia las energías renovables? AtLAST es el primero que integra la sustentabilidad en su diseño, con el objetivo de reducir las emisiones, mientras contribuye a ...

🧪🔭☄️ El telescopio AtLAST en el Desierto de Atacama podría cubrir 66% de la demanda eléctrica de San Pedro de Atacama, reduciendo costos para residentes que pagan 2x más que Santiago:
www.atlast.uio.no/news-and-eve...

#JusticiaEnergetica #Astronomia #Sustentabilidad

12.09.2025 13:59 👍 7 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0

A theoretical investigation of far-infrared fine structure lines at $z>6$ and of the origin of the [OIII]88/[CII]158 enhancement [Abridged] The [OIII]$_{88μm}$/[CII]$_{158μm}$ and [OIII]$_{88μm}$/[NII]$_{122μm}$ luminosity ratios have shown to be promising tracers of the ionisation state and gas-phase metallicity of the ISM. Ob...

🧪🔭☄️ New paper in press by A&A led by PhD student C. Nyhagen: "A theoretical investigation of FIR fine structure lines at z>6 and of the origin of the [OIII]88/[CII]158 enhancement" ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2024arXi... clear progress but still lot of work to do to understand high-z FIR line ratios!

11.09.2025 08:59 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The extended molecular gas of the Circinus galaxy and NGC 1097 as seen by APEX The outer region of the interstellar medium (ISM) is witness to dynamically important events in a galaxy's evolutionary history such as outflows, inflows, tidal interactions, and mergers, as well as dynamical structures affecting its current evolution such as bars and spiral arms. Studying imprints of these processes in the diffuse, extended molecular gas is best achieved by a single dish telescope which can cover a large field of view with good sensitivity to large-scale structures. In this work we present results from APEX line emission maps of two nearby galaxies: the Circinus galaxy in the CO(3-2) transition, and NGC 1097 in CO(2-1), covering their full optical extents. We detect gas at the largest extents seen for these galaxies yet, at 5$^{\prime}$ ($r \approx 6$ kpc) for the Circinus galaxy, and $4^{\prime}.5$ ($r \approx 18$ kpc) for NGC 1097, and compute total CO luminosities of $L^{\prime}_{\mathrm{CO(3-2)}} = (1.5\pm0.4)\times10^{8}$ K km s$^{-1}$ pc$^{2}$ and $L^{\prime}_{\mathrm{CO(2-1)}} = (7.0\pm1.7)\times10^{8}$ K km s$^{-1}$ pc$^{2}$, corresponding to molecular gas masses of $(2.1\pm1.0)\times10^{9}$ M$_{\odot}$ and $(4.7\pm1.9)\times10^{9}$ M$_{\odot}$, respectively. We further analyze the large-scale gas kinematics via PV diagrams and tilted ring modeling using $^{\mathrm{3D}}$BAROLO. We detect notable features in both galaxies beyond the well-studied central regions: in the Circinus galaxy we detect molecular gas embedded in a bar-like structure, whose kinematic signature is also evident in the major axis PV diagram, and in NGC 1097, we observe tidal molecular gas involved in the interaction of NGC 1097 with the companion galaxy NGC 1097A. The clear detection of such molecular gas structures shows promise in conducting large-scale molecular gas studies toward nearby galaxies with APEX and, in the future, the Atacama Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope (AtLAST).

🧪🔭☄️ New paper in press by A&A led by PhD student A. Lasrado 'The extended molecular gas of the Circinus galaxy and NGC 1097 as seen by APEX' ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2025arXi... the largest and deepest CO maps of these two iconic galaxies reveal previously unknown extended molecular gas components

11.09.2025 08:55 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

For those who missed the event, the talk "Designing a socially accepted renewable energy system for AtLAST" is now available on Youtube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Y-g... 🧪🔭☄️ #astronomy #sustainability #HorizonEU #AcademicSky #EUfunded

08.09.2025 15:16 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Join the next #AtLAST forum on Sep 4th to discover how we are designing a more sustainable future for ground based astronomy 🧪 🔭 #instrumentation #radioastro #extragalactic #sustainability @ec.europa.eu @uio.no

28.08.2025 05:09 👍 9 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

Group photo - Advanced Summer School on Galaxy formation and evolution, AKSS, Spetses, Greece advancedgalaxyformationschool2025.obspm.fr 🔭 🧪 #extragalactic

22.07.2025 06:29 👍 11 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Spetses 2025. In between lectures..

20.07.2025 06:56 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

First day of Advanced Summer School on Galaxy formation and evolution - hosted by the AKSS in Spetses, Greece advancedgalaxyformationschool2025.obspm.fr 🔭 🧪

16.07.2025 05:24 👍 11 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0

Atacama Large Aperture Submm Telescope (AtLAST) Welcome to the official YouTube channel for the Atacama Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope (AtLAST) project! As pioneers in the field of astronomical research and exploration, AtLAST is revolution...

🌟🎥 New Videos Alert! 🎥🌟 Missed the June edition of the #AtLAST Forum? No worries! The two talks - 1) the nearby Galaxies science case for AtLAST and 2) About AtLAST Operations - were recorded and posted on our YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/@AtLASTdesign 🧪🔭☄️

11.06.2025 08:56 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

AtLAST Newsletters - AtLAST Follow the links below to read our previous newsletters. If you would like to receive our newsletters in your email inbox, visit

Exciting updates from #AtLAST. Our latest newsletter www.atlast.uio.no/news-and-eve... is out:
📅 AtLAST Forum - 5 June 2025 at 14:00 UT
✨ Latest News articles (also in Spanish!)
📚 Recent publications
Subscribe to stay connected with the latest news on AtLAST! 🧪🔭☄️

03.06.2025 06:44 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

The French AtLAST days: engaging with scientific and engineering communities - AtLAST A workshop aiming at mobilizing the French community into the AtLAST project took place in Paris, France on May 12th-14th, 2025. 85 scientists and engineers participated, with about 50% of them attend...

🧪🔭☄️ French scientists and engineers gathered in Paris for AtLAST: www.atlast.uio.no/news-and-eve...
France brings technical developments, new science cases, multi-wavelength synergies, + a vibrant community of young astronomers seeking a more collaborative and sustainable future for Astronomy ✨

30.05.2025 07:44 👍 9 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

AtLAST Forum - June 2025 - AtLAST Welcome to the AtLAST Forum, a platform for the community to exchange ideas and opinions about the AtLAST project and anything related to it.

🔭 Next AtLAST Forum: June 5, 2025 | 14:00 UTC

- AtLAST science on nearby galaxies
- Preparing for AtLAST operations

Followed by a discussion and Q&A session.

Open to all!

Event webpage: www.atlast.uio.no/news-and-eve...

20.05.2025 10:09 👍 8 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

Part of the AtLAST team in front of the SRT near Cagliari, Sardinia @media.inaf.it 🧪🔭

16.05.2025 09:14 👍 11 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0

🧪 🔭 A short report from AtLAST2 official kick off with a field trip to the 64-m Sardinia Radio Telescope

16.05.2025 09:13 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

10.05.2025 17:53 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Jannik Sinner - Back in Rome YouTube video by Jannik Sinner

Oggi torna Sinner .. ansia youtu.be/arp1709nzHM?...

10.05.2025 07:50 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Last night at La Cambusa, which quickly became AtLAST’s oficina B in Cagliari. If you know, you know ..

01.05.2025 09:16 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

INAF press release about the (just concluded) AtLAST2 kick off meeting and the collaboration between AtLAST and the Sardinia Radio Telescope 🔭🧪

30.04.2025 15:42 👍 12 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

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