An archival summary: 15 years of ALMA observations on disks and planet formation
Abstract
The Atacama Large (sub-)millimeter Array (ALMA) has been in scientific operations for almost 15 years. We celebrate this achievement by providing a summary of the ``Disks and planet formation'' scientific category, with an emphasis on the disks located in the nearby star-forming regions. As of the beginning of February 2026, ALMA had observed 3933 independent coordinates, which we analyzed by their location in the sky, frequency coverage, exposure time, spectral line coverage, and angular resolution. We encourage the community to explore new scientific questions that are made possible through the archival datasets.
Comments: The data of this draft is also shown in https://youtu.be/BNPuSC1frb4?si=Kg7fmVSrmuI8_zZs and https://youtu.be/ahpoT0M8Nao?si=7xFFwRZ6rzeV7gvK . The tables are available at https://github.com/nicokurtovic/Tables_archival-summary-2026 . Article to be submitted to OJAp
Cite
@article{arxiv.2605.30023,
title = {An archival summary: 15 years of ALMA observations on disks and planet formation},
author = {Nicolas T. Kurtovic and Lizxandra Flores-Rivera and Laura M. Perez and Miguel Vioque and Myriam Benisty and Felipe Alarcón and Marcelo Barraza-Alfaro and Pietro Curone and Kiyoaki Doi and Sierra Grant and Haochang Jiang and Akimasa Kataoka and Feng Long and Álvaro Ribas and Anibal Sierra and Lucas Stapper and Milou Temmink and Francesco Zagaría},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2605.30023},
year = {2026}
}