Sister blog of Physicists of the Caribbean. Shorter, more focused posts specialising in astronomy and data visualisation.

Tuesday, 7 February 2017

QA2 begins

This week I'm in Garching learning ALMA QA2 (quality assessment level 2) procedures. All we have to do is determine if the data have the correct sensitivity and resolution. Which is like saying that in order to go to the Moon, all you have to do is build a big enough rocket...

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