Speaker
Description
From low-frequency radio through high energy gamma rays, the landscape of European facilities planned for the 2030s that can map large portions of the sky at subarcminute resolution is extensive. Yet facilities to map far-IR through mm wavelengths are lacking from this roadmap. The Atacama Large Aperture Submm Telescope (AtLAST) aims to fill much of this gap in our observational capabilities.
AtLAST is a concept for a groundbased next-generation 50-m observatory that is optimized to cover the same wavelength range as ALMA (350 microns to 10 mm) and to provide an unprecedentedly large instantaneous field of view (1-2 degrees, approximately 500 times the field of view of existing large single dish mm/submm facilities). It will also allow a suite of six nearly-unprecedentedly large instruments serving its vast range of science goals.
In this talk, I will provide an overview of the AtLAST conceptual design and the technological capabilities and requirements for its first generation of instrumentation, with an emphasis on how to get involved.