This is the third announcement of the conference “Hey GPT! Can you help me understand the Universe?”.  Please note that the deadline for abstract submission is extended to July 31st. The list of invited speakers, including the title of their talks, can be found at the conference webpage. 

This collection contains imaging data products for the observing programme CAFFEINE whose data were acquired with the ArTéMiS camera at the APEX telescope from 2018 to 2022. The 48 imaged fields cover a total area of more than ~ 2.5 deg², focused on the dense (AV > 10) parts of molecular clouds within about 3 kpc from the Sun. The released products include, per each field the 350 μm and 450 μm intensity maps with resolutions of 8'' and 10'' (half-power beam width), their related weight maps and multi-resolution H₂ column density maps. These datasets have been carefully calibrated and combined with Herschel/SPIRE data to recover large-scale emission that cannot be detected from the ground with ArTéMiS. The column density maps have been derived by including additional Herschel data at 160 μm and 250 μm and have a resolution ranging from ~8'' in their denser inner parts (AV > 40) to 18.2'' in the lower-density outer parts (AV < 40). For more details, refer to the accompanying release documentation or the publication by Mattern et al.  

With the release of the La Silla Paranal telescope schedule, the Phase 2 preparation for runs scheduled in Service Mode begins. The deadline for the submission of the Phase 2 material for Period 114 is Tuesday, 6 August 2024. The Service Mode guidelines provide detailed information about Phase 2 material preparation with the web application p2, while the instrument overview table provides quick links to user manuals, tools and p2 tutorials for individual instruments.

The 114^th Observing Programmes Committee (OPC) met during May 2024. Based on the committee's recommendations to the ESO Director General, a total of 8148 hours of (Designated) Visitor Mode and Service Mode observations were allocated on the VLT/VLTI, the 3.6-metre, and NTT telescopes. The schedule timeline and the list of scheduled runs is publicly available.

Going well beyond the 10^th anniversary of MUSE, this workshop is a very timely opportunity to reflect on the many successes and challenges such an instrument triggered and to further shape a community-wide science perspective and effort, supported by integral-field spectroscopy. Please be reminded that the deadline for the abstract submission for the MUSE24 workshop is Monday, 15^th July.