Solar science with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array - A new view of our Sun
Abstract
The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) is a new powerful tool for observing the Sun at high spatial, temporal, and spectral resolution. These capabilities can address a broad range of fundamental scientific questions in solar physics. The radiation observed by ALMA originates mostly from the chromosphere - a complex and dynamic region between the photosphere and corona, which plays a crucial role in the transport of energy and matter and, ultimately, the heating of the outer layers of the solar atmosphere. Based on first solar test observations, strategies for regular solar campaigns are currently being developed. State-of-the-art numerical simulations of the solar atmosphere and modeling of instrumental effects can help constrain and optimize future observing modes for ALMA. Here we present a short technical description of ALMA and an overview of past efforts and future possibilities for solar observations at submillimeter and millimeter wavelengths. In addition, selected numerical simulations and observations at other wavelengths demonstrate ALMA's scientific potential for studying the Sun for a large range of science cases.
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@article{arxiv.1504.06887,
title = {Solar science with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array - A new view of our Sun},
author = {S. Wedemeyer and T. Bastian and R. Brajsa and H. Hudson and G. Fleishman and M. Loukitcheva and B. Fleck and E. P. Kontar and B. De Pontieu and P. Yagoubov and S. K. Tiwari and R. Soler and J. H. Black and P. Antolin and E. Scullion and S. Gunar and N. Labrosse and H. -G. Ludwig and A. O. Benz and S. M. White and P. Hauschildt and J. G. Doyle and V. M. Nakariakov and T. Ayres and P. Heinzel and M. Karlicky and T. Van Doorsselaere and D. Gary and C. E. Alissandrakis and A. Nindos and S. K. Solanki and L. Rouppe van der Voort and M. Shimojo and Y. Kato and T. Zaqarashvili and E. Perez and C. L. Selhorst and M. Barta},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1504.06887},
year = {2016}
}
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73 pages, 21 figures ; Space Science Reviews (accepted December 10th, 2015); accepted version