APEX News and updates

August 2010	SABOCA calibration data (Zenith opacities and calibration factors) is available on-line
June 2010	New BoA version was released (2010 June 24 version). See http://www.eso.org/sci/activities/apexsv/labocasv/ for more information
April 2010	The APEX End-Of-Mission-Report system is online and ready for our visiting observers under this link. At the end of your observing mission, please take some minutes to evaluate the APEX project. Your feedback will be very much appreciated. Thanks!
March 2010	The paper "Intense star formation within resolved compact regions in a galaxy at z = 2.3" has been published in Nature (Nature 21/03)
March 2010	ESO Science Release eso1012 - APEX Snaps First Close-up of Star Factories in Distant Universe.For the first time, astronomers have made direct measurements of the size and brightness of regions of star-birth in a very distant galaxy, thanks to a chance discovery with the APEX telescope. The galaxy is so distant, and its light has taken so long to reach us, that we see it as it was 10 billion years ago. A cosmic gravitational lens is magnifying the galaxy, giving us a close-up view that would otherwise be impossible. This lucky break reveals a hectic and vigorous star-forming life for galaxies in the early Universe, with stellar nurseries forming one hundred times faster than in more recent galaxies. More info at ESO Announcement 10/12
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