During Ringberg meeting in 09 of January 2023, it was made public a major milestone in the history of APEX: reaching 5000 hours on sky in 2022. This achievement was possible due to the constant work and the commitment of Read More …
APEX News
Summer Shutdown 2023 / Technical works starting
As every year around this time, we enter into a very intense technical maintenance period: The Summer shutdown 2023 -or SSD23. Different types of maintenances and upgrades are carried out during the SSD23: Instruments. telescope, servers, network, electrical and more. Read More …
A new era for APEX
2022 marks the end of an era for APEX as the OSO / ESO / MPIfR fruitful partnership also ends with the year. It has been an incredible ride together, with outstanding scientific accomplishments, always pushing technology boundaries with state-of-the-art Read More …
Seasonal greetings from APEX!
The Earth is completing yet another turn around the Sun, leading us toward 2022. This has been a year full of challenges in many ways. Overall, it has been a successful year for the observatory and we want to celebrate Read More …
Science schedule 2022 online
Dear APEX community, the Science schedule defining the dates of the different observing blocks for the APEX partners has been recently agreed and approved in the last board meeting. You can find now the schedule online.
Now online our historical database of line reference spectra
We are making available a database with reference spectra (individual scans) taken with all heterodyne receivers at APEX. You can visit this list if you want to check for calibration variations between different epochs, for example if your project was Read More …
OTF estimator updated to v10.0
We have just updated our On-the-fly time calculator to v10.0, fixing a mistake in the time estimation that we had introduced in the previous version. As a consequence, now time estimates can be considerably longer, especially for deep integrations where Read More …
Meeting the APEX research community: Hans Olofsson
Welcome back dear reader to this space, where we can get to know a bit more about some of the people in our APEX research community. In our previous inaugural edition we introduced Silvia Leurini who told us about their Read More …
Meeting the APEX research community: Maud Galametz
Welcome back dear reader to this space, where we can get to know a bit more about some of the people in our APEX research community. In our previous inaugural edition we introduced Silvia Leurini who told us about her Read More …
Science schedule for 2021 is now online
Dear APEX community, the Science schedule defining the dates of the different observing blocks for the APEX partners has been recently agreed and approved in the last board meeting. You can find now the schedule online.