This event will bring together the Spanish and Portuguese (sub-)mm communities to foster scientific and technical synergies around the future AtLAST facility.
In person attendance is encouraged for a better experience and collaboration opportunities, but since physical space is limited, we are offering a hybrid event.
The Atacama Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope (AtLAST) (http://www.atlast-telescope.org) will be the most advanced 50-m-class single-dish telescope dedicated to exploring the (sub-)mm sky in the Southern Hemisphere, powered by renewable energy.
With its exceptional sensitivity and unprecedented field of view (~2°), AtLAST will enable transformational science across multiple areas of astronomy: from probing the dust and gas properties of large populations of high-redshift galaxies, to studying the circumgalactic and interstellar media in nearby galaxies — and in our own — thanks to its superb sensitivity to faint extended emission. AtLAST will also provide new insights into the Solar chromosphere, the chemical complexity of our Solar System and the Milky Way, and will revolutionize studies of the transient (sub-)mm sky through the combination of large-format cameras, high sensitivity, and excellent spatial resolution.
The AtLAST study has been funded twice by the European Union, with the current (second) project running through 2028. The consortium includes several Spanish institutions, namely the Institute of Space Sciences (CSIC-ICE), the European Solar Telescope Canarian Foundation (EST-CF), the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), and the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM), and it is aiming at an even larger partnership, including countries that are not yet formally part of the project. Through the Iberian AtLAST Days, we aim to present the project and its current developments, foster new collaborations, and broaden the community of researchers and engineers engaged in AtLAST from across both Portugal and Spain.
