Gisela Ortiz, former PhD student at the Instituto de Radioastronomía y Astrofísica (UNAM) and LMT collaborator, has been awarded the IAU prize for best 2017 PhD thesis in Fundamental Astronomy.
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Gisela Ortiz, former PhD student at the Instituto de Radioastronomía y Astrofísica (UNAM) and LMT collaborator, has been awarded the IAU prize for best 2017 PhD thesis in Fundamental Astronomy.
On December 13th, 2017, the last two segments of the 50m diameter primary surface of the LMT were installed.
The Large Millimeter Telescope Alfonso Serrano invites members of the Mexican astronomy community and members of the Department of Astronomy at the University of Massachusetts and the Five College Astronomy Department to participate in the call for Science observing proposals 2018-S1.
A new hexapod and a secondary reflector surface have been installed and successfully tested at the LMT.
During the period 4-10 April 2017, the LMT participated in the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) experiment to image the supermassive black hole at the center of our Galaxy.
The Large Millimeter Telescope Alfonso Serrano (LMT) invites members of the Mexican astronomy community and members of the Department of Astronomy at the University of Massachusetts and the Five College Astronomy Department to participate in the call for Early Science observing proposals 2015-ES4.
The LMT participated in the Event Horizon Telescope experiment to image the supermassive black hole at the centre of our Galaxy.
A new 1.3 mm dual-polarization receiver and coupling optics have been developed and installed at the LMT for VLBI observations.
10 December 2014 – First refereed paper based on LMT data has been published
The Large Millimeter Telescope Alfonso Serrano (LMT) invites members of the Mexican astronomy community and members of the Department of Astronomy at the University of Massachusetts and the Five College Astronomy Department to participate in the third call for Early Science observing proposals.
Scientific American has published an article regarding the installation of an hydrogen maser at the LMT. This atomic clock will allow the LMT to participate and contribute in VLBI observations.
A US-Mexican team of astronomers installed a hydrogen maser frequency standard at the LMT to enable Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) experiments.
The Call for Proposals to observe with the LMT during the 2014-ES2 season was closed on January 13th, 2014. The proposals are now under evaluation by the Scientific Committee, in order to assign telescope time and schedule the 2014-ES2 observations.
The Large Millimeter Telescope Alfonso Serrano (LMT) invites members of the Mexican astronomy community and members of the Department of Astronomy at the University of Massachusetts and the Five College Astronomy Department to participate in the second call for Early Science observing proposals.
On September 18th, 2013, INAOE and WebCams de México commissioned two HD web cameras at the LMT site which will continuously broadcast images via the internet.
An international team of US and Mexican scientists has completed a successful Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) test between the Large Millimeter Telescope Alfonso Serrano (LMT) and several Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) stations.
The 50-m Large Millimeter Telescope (LMT) invites members of Mexican astronomy community and members of the Department of Astronomy at the University of Massachusetts and the Five College Astronomy Department to participate in the first call for Early Science observing proposals.
A joint project of the Instituto Nacional de Astrofísica, Óptica y Electrónica and the University of Massachusetts.
The LMT is included in CONACYT's National Laboratories network.
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