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IRAM Newsletter 72 (February 2009)

February 25, 2009

Note: this is the on-line version of the IRAM Newsletter. A Postscript version, a gzipped Postscript version and a Portable Document Format (PDF) version are also available. You may also access previous issues ,or proposal forms and style files.

Calendar

March 12th, 2009 17:00h CET (UT+1 hour):: Deadline for the submission of IRAM observing proposals for the period from 01 June 2009 - 30 November 2009.
20-21 April, 2009: Program committee meeting
04-11 September, 2009: Fifth IRAM Summer School in Pradollano (Sierra Nevada, Spain)
28-30 September, 2009: International conference at IRAM Grenoble: To the Edge of the Universe: 30 years of IRAM

Introductory Remarks
To the Edge of the Universe: 30 Years of IRAM
Pre-Announcement: 5th Millimeter Observing School in Pradollano
Sixth IRAM millimeter interferometry school
Proposals for IRAM Telescopes
Large observing programs
Travel funds for European astronomers
Call for Observing Proposals on the 30m Telescope
- Summary
- What is new?
- EMIR
News from the Plateau de Bure Interferometer
- Aluminum panels for antenna 4
- Weather conditions and observing
Call for Observing Proposals on the Plateau de Bure Interferometer
- Conditions for the next summer period
- Proposal category
- Configurations
- Receivers
- Signal to Noise
- Coordinates and Velocities
- Correlator
- Sun Avoidance
- Mosaics
- Local Contact
- Data reduction
- Technical pre-screening
- Non-standard observations
- Documentation
IRAM mailing lists
News from the 30m
- GISMO - The Goddard-IRAM Superconducting 2 Millimeter Observer tested at the IRAM 30m observatory
- MAMBO2 - Science highlights from November 2008
WideX correlator board: first fringes
VLBI News
- October 2008 session
- Result of the EFOS-38 ballistic tuning
Winter 2008/2009 proposal ratings
- Plateau de Bure Interferometer Proposals
- 30m telescope
On the Publications and Citation Statistics of the IRAM telescopes
Staff changes
- IRAM Granada
- IRAM Grenoble
Matt Carter in memoriam
Scientific Results in Press
- Self-Regulated Fueling of Galaxy Centers: Evidence for Star Formation Feedback in IC 342's Nucleus
- HI and CO in the circumstellar environment of the oxygen-rich AGB star RX Lep
- Coordinated multi-wavelength observations of Sgr A*
- Large excess of heavy nitrogen in both hydrogen cyanide and cyanogen from comet 17P/Holmes
- Radio observations of Jupiter-family comets
- Mapping the carbon monoxide coma of comet 29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann 1
- Drastic changes in the molecular absorption at redshift toward the quasar PKS 1830211
- Detection of CN and vibrationally excited CH in IRC +10216
- A Molecular Einstein Ring at : Imaging the Dynamics of a Quasar Host Galaxy Through a Cosmic Lens
- Thermal emission from warm dust in the most distant quasars
- Interferometric CO observations of submillimeter-faint, radio-selected starburst galaxies at $z\sim 2$
- A sensitive search for [N II] $_{205\mu m}$ emission in a quasar host galaxy
- The CO line SED and atomic carbon in IRAS F10214+4724
- GRB 080319B: A Naked-Eye Stellar Blast from the Distant Universe
- Flares from a candidate Galactic magnetar suggest a missing link to dim isolated neutron stars
- A photometric redshift of $z = 1.8^{+0.4}_{-0.3}$ for the AGILE GRB 080514B
- Testing the inverse-Compton catastrophe scenario in the intra-day variable blazar S5 0716+71
  III. Rapid and correlated flux density variability from radio to sub-mm bands
- Cavities in inner disks: the GM Aurigae case
- Chemistry in disks II. Poor molecular content of the AB Aurigae disk
- Simultaneous NIR/sub-mm observation of flare emission from Sagittarius A*
- First detection of glycolaldehyde outside the galactic center
- Limits on chemical complexity in diffuse clouds: search for CH and HCN absorption
- Imaging galactic diffuse gas: bright, turbulent CO surrounding the line of sight to NRAO150
- Disks around CQ Tauri and MWC758: dense PDR or gas dispersal?
- Search for cold gas along radio lobes in the cooling core galaxies MS0735.6+7421 and M87
- Observations of the Goldreich-Kylafis effect in star-forming regions with XPOL at the IRAM 30 m telescope
- A new activity phase of the blazar 3C 454.3. Multifrequency observations by the WEBT and XMM-Newton in 2007-2008
- CN Zeeman measurements in star formation regions
- Monitoring Venus' mesospheric winds in support of Venus Express: IRAM 30-m and APEX observations
- Results of WEBT, VLBA and RXTE monitoring of 3C 279 during 2006-2007s
- Instrument performance of GISMO, a 2 millimeter TES bolometer camera used at the IRAM 30 m Telescope
- Extrasolar planet detection by binary stellar eclipse timing: evidence for a third body around CM Draconis
- The brightness temperature of Mercury at mm-wavelengths
- Surface adjustment of the IRAM 30 m radio telescope
- A kiloparsec-scale hyper-starburst in a quasar host less than 1 gigayear after the Big Bang
- A complete $^{12}$ CO 2-1 map of M51 with HERA: II. Total gas surface densities and gravitational stability
IRAM Astronomy Postdoctoral Position in Granada, Spain