The NSERC CREATE training program on New Technologies for Canadian Observatories (NTCO) has been a unique collaboration between academia, government, and industry to advance innovation in astronomical instrumentation while fostering knowledge exchange as part of an advanced student training program. Through strategic partnerships and funding support, NTCO facilitated the creation of industrial internship opportunities for graduate and undergraduate students in physics, astronomy, and engineering, enabling them to gain valuable professional experience while making high impact contributions to cutting-edge research projects. The NTCO program included nearly 200 supervisors (a third in industry) working together to successfully bridge the gaps between academia, government, and industry, through 70 industrial internships (37 graduate, 33 undergraduate) over the seven-year duration of the program. This paper will outline the key activities and outcomes of the NTCO program, ranging from our strategies in recruiting a diverse group of students and matching them with appropriate industrial internship experiences, to the benefits of advanced summer school training, peer support, annual general meetings, and professional skills development courses for our participants.
In this poster, we present a new method to measure system temperature Tsys for ALMA submillimeter telescope high frequency observations. Traditional Tsys measurements for ALMA use discrete atmosphere (ATM) calibrations done every few minutes, which usually involves 10 ∼ 20 ATM calibrations at high frequencies. Our new method use water vapor radiometer (WVR) data to track the continuous Tsys. We find a tight linear correlation between Tsys measured using traditional method and Tsys extrapolated based on WVR data with scatter of 0.5% – 3%. We applied the extrapolated semi-continuous Tsys on a few data sets from Band 7 to Band 10 and compare the flux measured using traditional and our new methods. We find the discrete and continuous Tsys methods give us consistent flux measurements with difference up to 5%, while our new method has slightly better flux consistency. This new method can help to save up to 10% of time for ALMA high-frequency observations.
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