US ELT group picture at the 235th American Astronomical Society Meeting in Honolulu on January 2020, featuring representatives of the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) National Optical Infrared Astronomy Research Laboratory (NOIRLab), the Giant Magellan Telescope Organization (GMTO), and the TMT International Observatory (TIO). [ From top left: Amanda Kocz, Director of Communications (GMTO); Rebecca Bernstein, Project Scientist (GMTO); Chris Martin, TIO SAC Member, Caltech Professor; Christophe Dumas, TMT Observatory Scientist & Head of Operations (TIO); Gary Sanders, TMT Project Manager (TIO); Mike Bolte, TIO Board of Directors, UCSC Professor; Sandra Dawson, Manager Hawaii Community Affairs (TIO); Fengchuan Liu, TMT Deputy Project Manager (TIO); Warren Skidmore, Instrumentation System Scientist (TIO); Pat McCarthy, Director NSF National OIR Astronomy Research Laboratory (AURA); Mark Dickinson, US-ELT Program Scientist (AURA); Taft Armandroff, Vice-Chair GMTO Board of Directors; Heidy Kelman, Mechanical Design Engineer (GMTO); Jim Fanson, GMT Project Manager (GMTO); Sydney Wolff, US-ELT Program Director; Caty Pilachowski, TIO Board of Directors (AURA); Gordon Squires, Head Communication & Vice President External Affairs (TIO) ]
Two TMT Primary Segment Assemblies fitted with aluminum mirror segments have been successfully installed into the Multi-Segment Integration & Test facility at the TMT lab.
Group picture of TMT Science Forum 2019, held on the campus of Xiamen University in China, November 2019.
The science cases and instrument design of one of TMT’s first decade instruments, the High Resolution Optical Spectrograph (HROS) were discussed during a workshop on the day before the Forum in China. This workshop was aimed at facilitating the definition of HROS main science requirements and the building of its core science team.
TMT was at "Explore Your Universe" (EYU) event at UCLA on Sunday November 3, 2019. A fun day with an overflow of kids experiencing TMT virtual reality walkthrough and a lively discussion with numbers of interesting questions. The 11th annual EYU event was a huge success, with positive feedbacks and rewarding interaction with the local community.
From left: Francisco Delgado, John Rogers, Marianne Cox (Giant Magellan Telescope Organization), Gelys Trancho, Jason Weiss, Jimmy Johnson and Kim Gillies. Remote participants: Edward Chapin (National Research Council Canada, Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics)
From left: Neeraj Gupta (IUCAA), Angelic Ebbers (Gemini North Observatory), Kevin Tsubota (W.M. Keck Observatory), Gelys Trancho, Mark Bowman (Las Cumbres Observatory), Jimmy Johnson, Matthias Schoeck, Sujit Punnadi (IUCAA), Kim Gillies, Hiroshi Terada, Lianqi Wang, Mark Sirota, Gary Brack (Jet Propulsion Lab) - Remote participants: Chris Mayer (Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope) and Dan Kerley (National Research Council Canada)
TMT Senior Opto-Mechanical Engineer, Alastair Heptonstall, positioning the portable CMM, an advanced metrology system used to measure and check the feature locations of TMT M1 aluminum segments that will be integrated in the mirror cell platform at the Monrovia technical lab.
TMT's relative size is small given its mirror size.
Registration is open for the 7th annual TMT Science Forum to be held on the campus of Xiamen University, in China. Scheduled for November 4-6, 2019, make your plans and come to attend the next TMT Forum and get an update on the Thirty-Meter-Telescope design and construction. For more information, please visit: https://conference.ipac.caltech.edu/tmtsf2019.
