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February 2010 APECS 2.1 migrated to APECS 2.2 (ACS 8.1 and Scientific Linux 5.3). New functionality in APECS comprises log audiences and 2SB frontend handling.
February 2010 The paper "Intense star formation within compact regions in a galaxy seen 3 Gyr after the Big-Bang" has been accepted for publication in Nature. The results published on this paper are partly based upon observations done with APEX and the bolometers LABOCA and SABOCA. Furthermore, the APEX staff members Giorgio Siringo and Andreas Lundgren are among the authors of the paper.
January 2010
APEX featured in the "ESO Highlights in 2009": The Atacama Pathfinder Experiment (APEX) telescope keeps on achieving outstanding results, such as mapping the dust content of the inner regions of the Milky Way in unprecedented detail (ESO 24/09) or imaging the jets and lobes emanating from the central black hole of the active galaxy Centaurus A ( ESO 03/09).
More info at ESO Announcement 10/01
December 2009 LABOCA Survey of the Extended Chandra Deep Field South (LESS) published in the ESO Messenger.
December 2009 (No. 138)
December 2009 Oriel Arriagada has joined the APEX team as hardware engineer.
November 2009 "ALMA Weather forecast" page linked from the APEX weather page.
July 2009
ATLASGAL: Astronomer's new guide to the galaxy. Largest map of cold dust revealed. More info at (ESO 24/09)
June 2009 Giorgio Siringo has joined the APEX team as support astronomer at APEX.
June 2009 Alejandra Di Césare has joined the APEX team as support astronomer at APEX for a period of 4 months (July - October).
Junio 2009 Juan Pablo Araneda has joined the APEX team as software engineer.
May 2009 New version of the APEX Safety Regulations released.
April 2009 LABOCA paper published and featured as cover page in Astronomy and Astrophysics Vol. 497 No. 3 (April III 2009, pp. 951, 961)
April 2009
APEX Data on Messenger March 2009 (No.135) cover page. More info at ESO 03/09
April 2009
Watch the recorded movie of the APEX webcast here.
January 2009 APECS 1.1 migrated to APECS 2.0 (ACS 8.0 and Scientific Linux 5.2) and a new control network successfully installed at APEX.
January 2009 Black hole outflows from Centaurus A detected with APEX (ESO 03/09)
December 2008 Franciso Montenegro has joined the APEX team as support astronomer at APEX.
November 2008 VLT and APEX team up to study flares from the black hole at the Milky Way's core ESO 41/08 - Science Release
November 2008 APEX reveals glowing stellar nurseries ESO 40/08 - Press release
October 6 2008 SABOCA first light at APEX.
October 2008 LABOCA calibration data (Zenith opacities and calibration factors) is available on-line
September 2008 Gundolf Wieching has joined the APEX team as RF Engineer in charge of the scientific instrumentation at APEX.
September 2008 Andreas Lundgren is the new APEX deputy station manager.
August 2008 Call for APEX SABOCA Science Verification.
August 2008 Javier Gallardo has joined the APEX team as software engineer.
July 2008 Michael Cantzler has joined the APEX team as mechanical engineer.
July 2008 APEX data made it to the cover page of A&A for the first time ever.
July 2008 APEX data mentioned in the highlights of this week in A&A.
April 2008 Andreas Lundgren is the new APEX head of science operations.
February 2008 Swedish Heterodyne Facility Instrument (SHFI) Call for Science Verification projects.
February 2008 SHFI receivers - Preliminary specifications web page at APEX
January 2008 Swedish Heterodyne Facility Instrument Science Verification
January 2008 BoA package (2008 January 23 version, 451 kB)
September 2007 David Rabanus is the new APEX station manager, replacing Lars Nyman who has moved to the ALMA project.
August 2007 Official LABOCA website at MPIfR
July 2007 DELTA CALL for the LABOCA bolometer array at APEX
September 2006 Call for LABOCA Science Verification
November 2005 LABOCA Science Verification Projects
November 2005 APEX-2A Science Verification
September 2005 Apex Inaguration
July 2005 ESO Press Release 18/05