Though the anniversary of the
Nobeyama Radio Observatory was celebrated, the main focus of the symposium was the direction of radio astronomy on the basis of initial outcomes of the Atacama large Millimeter Array (ALMA), and many exciting results from ALMA Cycle 0 observations were presented along with those from other instruments.
Eilek of New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology in Socorro, Chris O'Dea of NRAO Socorro, Makoto Inoue of
Nobeyama Radio Observatory in Japan and Richard White of Computer Sciences Corp.
Using a technique called Very Long Baseline Interferomety (VLBI), two radiotelescopes located about 1,000 kilometers apart -- one at the
Nobeyama Radio Observatory in Nagano Prefecture and the other at the Taeduk Radio Astronomy Observatory in South Korea -- observed the masers in May and June.