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Description
AtLAST is a next-generation concept for a 50-m single dish telescope covering 30-950 GHz in frequency and featuring a field of view >500 times larger than that of current large mm-wave facilities like the Large Millimeter Telescope. When it is built, it will be the first submm single dish with >20-m aperture ever and the only >12-m single dish with full access to the southern sky. AtLAST will also house the largest receiver cabin ever, with space to accommodate up to 6 massive instruments (the 4 smaller of which can be as large as Prime Cam or the large aperture telescope receivers of SO and CMB-S4, and the 2 Nasmyth-mounted instruments each being up to 4-5x larger). The first design study for AtLAST finished in August 2024, resulting in 8 refereed science cases, identification of 3 key science drivers, several papers and proceedings detailing the optics, structure, and energy recovery systems, and more. Starting in January 2025, a new phase, with funding by the EU Horizons Europe program, began. This phase aims to consolidate plans for AtLAST and link the science cases to instrument concepts and requirements. In this talk, I will detail this effort and provide an overview of the tools we are developing to do this.
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