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Tony Mroczkowski
@tonymroczkowski.bsky.social
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astronomer, submm instrument scientist, AtLAST, ALMA, ACT, GBT/MUSTANG-2, Simons Observatory, CMB-S4
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Tony Mroczkowski @tonymroczkowski.bsky.social · Aug 8
In fairness to Poland, their "ketchup" is more like pizza sauce (and isn't disgusting like ketchup).
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Atacama Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope @atlastdesign.bsky.social · Apr 1
Researcher position available at the University of Oslo to conduct synthesis and characterization of alloys including feasibility and sustainability under realistic conditions envisioned for AtLAST, deadline 30 april 🔭 🧪 #hydrogen #renewables

www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
Researcher in in hydrogen storage for a sustainable telescope (277709) | University of Oslo
Job title: Researcher in in hydrogen storage for a sustainable telescope (277709), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Wednesday, April 30, 2025
www.jobbnorge.no
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Tony Mroczkowski @tonymroczkowski.bsky.social · Apr 28
Kicking off the AtLAST2 kickoff! @atlastdesign.bsky.social
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Atacama Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope @atlastdesign.bsky.social · Mar 3
The next AtLAST forum is planned for this coming Thursday March 6th at 14 UTC. Talks: 1) telescope design, 2) the science shaping the design, followed by an open discussion. For details and zoom link check www.atlast.uio.no/news-and-eve...
AtLAST Forum - March 2025 - AtLAST
Welcome to the AtLAST Forum, a platform for the community to exchange ideas and opinions about the AtLAST project and anything related to it.
www.atlast.uio.no
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Atacama Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope @atlastdesign.bsky.social · Feb 7
In case you missed it, the recordings of the talks are now available on our YouTube channel 🧪🔭 www.youtube.com/@AtLASTdesign
Atacama Large Aperture Submm Telescope (AtLAST)
Welcome to the official YouTube channel for the Atacama Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope (AtLAST) project! As pioneers in the field of astronomical research and exploration, AtLAST is revolution...
www.youtube.com
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Eve Vavagiakis @evevavagiakis.bsky.social · Mar 4
The physics REU program at Duke has been canceled this year. It was one of two programs in the country that enabled students to do research at CERN.

www.science.org/content/arti...
NSF downsizes summer research program for undergraduates
Many participants are from groups underrepresented in science
www.science.org
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Anna Cabré Albós @annacabrealbos.bsky.social · Mar 5
It happened. Trump and Elon cut our Dept of Defense grant on climate, adaptation, migration, and conflict.
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Tony Mroczkowski @tonymroczkowski.bsky.social · Feb 25
www.ice.csic.es?view=article...
Astronomer Tony Mroczkowski receives a grant from the ATRAE programme
ICE Web
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Simons Observatory @simonsobservatory.org · Feb 15
Fog can't stop us from installing our last mirror 🔭
Image credit: Toby Satterthwaite
A large aluminium mirror made of square panels is being lifted by a crane on a foggy day. Many ropes are connected to it to control the hoist
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Bernardita Ried Guachalla @bernarditaried.bsky.social · Feb 14
@simonsobs.bsky.social is happening!
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Big day! The primary mirror is in the LAT!

Credit: Elle Shaw
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Tony Mroczkowski @tonymroczkowski.bsky.social · Feb 14
Almost a year later, I found that AtLAST was mentioned in 2 news stories shortly after we posted the design paper:

www.universetoday.com/166060/astro...

phys.org/news/2024-03...
Astronomers Propose a 50-Meter Submillimeter Telescope
AtLAST is the Atacama Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope. Astronomers hope work can start on this new observatory later this decade.
www.universetoday.com
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Paola Andreani @badiapub.bsky.social · Feb 9
too funny 😂
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Claudia Cicone @claudiacicone.bsky.social · Feb 7
AtLAST is now also on YouTube! We have uploaded the AtLAST forum talks from yesterday 🧪🔭
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Tony Mroczkowski @tonymroczkowski.bsky.social · Feb 3
Wow...
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Tony Mroczkowski @tonymroczkowski.bsky.social · Feb 1
That makes sense!
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Tony Mroczkowski @tonymroczkowski.bsky.social · Jan 30
It's not just painted blue to look cool?
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Tony Mroczkowski @tonymroczkowski.bsky.social · Jan 27
The high is -30 C these days
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Jason Spyromilio Ιάσων Σπυρομίλιος @apolitosb.bsky.social · Jan 26
A gentle reminder that Paranal is endangered. 🔭
eso.org ESO @eso.org · Jan 10
The skies above Paranal are at risk from a proposed industrial megaproject. 

This would be located in the vicinity of ESO's Observatory. If constructed, it would irreparably impact astronomical observations.

Read more: https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso2501/
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📷 ESO/P. Horálek
World's darkest and clearest skies at risk from industrial megaproject
On December 24th, AES Andes, a subsidiary of the US power company AES Corporation, submitted a project for a massive industrial complex for environmental impact assessment. This complex threatens the pristine skies above ESO’s Paranal Observatory in Chile’s Atacama Desert, the darkest and clearest of any astronomical observatory in the world [1]. The industrial megaproject is planned to be located just 5 to 11 kilometres from telescopes at Paranal, which would cause irreparable damage to astronomical observations, in particular due to light pollution emitted throughout the project’s operational life. Relocating the complex would save one of Earth's last truly pristine dark skies.
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Simons Observatory @simonsobservatory.org · Jan 21
Hello Bluesky! We’re excited to share with you here! Follow for instrumentation, cosmology and astrophysics updates from the scientists of the Simons Observatory.
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Tony Mroczkowski @tonymroczkowski.bsky.social · Jan 16
Funny how we've been on this for over a year, and some organizations are just now joining!
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Tony Mroczkowski @tonymroczkowski.bsky.social · Jan 14
Fake lines in your ALMA data? Unsure about the statistics? Try jackknify (pypi.org/project/jack...)!

ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2025arXi...
Quantifying the detection likelihood of faint peaks in interferometric data through jackknifing: Test application on finding $z>10$ galaxy candidates
False-positive emission-line detections bias our understanding of astronomical sources; for example, falsely identifying $z\sim3-4$ passive galaxies as $z>10$ galaxies leads to incorrect number cou...
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Luca Di Mascolo 🟥 @lucadimascolo.bsky.social · Dec 23
An amazing piece of work led by (my brother in science) Joshiwa van Marrewijk and Thomas Morris.

Are you building a single-dish telescope (not not talking about you, @atlastdesign.bsky.social) and want to test for mapping and filtering strategies, atmospheric mitigation, etc?

Just ask maria.

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The image depicts a simulated observation by a single-dish millimeter telescope. The background shows a representation of an astrophysical target (in this case, a galaxy cluster), with intersecting loops indicating the scanning path (a Lissajous daisy scanning pattern). Layered red and blue streaks represent the simulated evolving atmosphere, and at the bottom there is a sketch representation of a (sub)millimeter antenna. An arrow passes through the atmosphere layers and connects the telescope to the observed galaxy cluster, indicating the telescope pointing direction.
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Atacama Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope @atlastdesign.bsky.social · Dec 23
In this new paper led by Joshiwa van Marrewijk we demonstrated that AtLAST’s 50m-diameter provides the highest levels of correlation of atmospheric signals across adjacent detectors compared to smaller apertures: AtLAST will be great at removing submm atmospheric signal on large scales 🔭
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Atacama Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope @atlastdesign.bsky.social · Jan 7
"The AtLAST project has demonstrated that the pursuit of transformational science can go hand in hand with a more
sustainable approach", states project coordinator @claudiacicone.bsky.social in this interview for #CORDIS @ec.europa.eu cordis.europa.eu/article/id/4... 🔭 🧪
Scanning the universe with submillimetre astronomy
The design of a state-of-the-art telescope will help astronomers answer some key questions about the universe – while addressing energy...
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Luca Di Mascolo 🟥 @lucadimascolo.bsky.social · Dec 13
Being cool, the Spiderweb way 🕸️

Marika Lepore led a re-analysis of the central region of the Spiderweb protocluster at z=2.16, combining Chandra X-ray and ALMA SZ data. And we find evidence for a strongly cooling core.

More on arXiv: arxiv.org/abs/2312.06392
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Screenshot of the arXiv summary for the paper arXiv:2313.06392 by M. Lepore et al., showing the arXiv red banner on the top, the paper title ("Feeding and feedback processes in the Spiderweb proto-intracluster"), and the list of authors.
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