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The Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) consists of 64 antennas of 12m diameter that will initially observe in 4 frequency bands between 84 and 720 GHz with spatial resolutions down to 0.01" and velocity resolutions as fine as 0.05 km/s.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Carlos De Breuck

It has been widely acknowledged that Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) in the submillimeter wavelengths can make imaging observations of super massive black holes possible. The Sub-Millimeter Array (SMA) along with the James Clerk…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2012-10-23 Vinayak Nagpal

We present a method to mitigate the atmospheric effects (residual atmospheric lines) in single-dish radio spectroscopy caused by the elevation difference between the target and reference positions. The method is developed as a script using…

Long baseline optical and infrared interferometric arrays achieve high angular resolution and enable detailed astrophysical measurements. Interferometers have enabled observations of stars at various stages of evolution, as well as studies…

The Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) is a joint project between astronomical organizations in Europe, USA and Japan. ALMA will consist of at least 64 12-meter antennas operating in the millimeter and sub-millimeter wavelength range,…

We have developed Water Vapour Radiometers (WVRs) for the Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA) that are capable of determining signal path length fluctuations by virtue of measuring small temperature fluctuations in the atmosphere using…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Balthasar T. Indermuehle , Michael G. Burton , Jonathan Crofts

We test the accuracy of ALMA flux density calibration by comparing ALMA flux density measurements of extragalactic sources to measurements made by the Planck mission; Planck is absolutely calibrated to sub-percent precision using the dipole…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-01-27 Gerrit S. Farren , Bruce Partridge , Rüdiger Kneissl , Simone Aiola , Rahul Datta , Megan Gralla , Yaqiong Li

An adaptive interpolation scheme is proposed to accurately calculate the wideband responses in electromagnetic simulations. In the proposed scheme, the sampling points are first carefully divided into several groups based on their responses…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2022-03-14 Kai Zhu , Jinhui Wang , Shunchuan Yang

Using Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) observations of the quiet Sun at 1.26 and 3 mm, we study spatially resolved oscillations and transient brightenings, i.e. small, weak events of energy release. Both phenomena may…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-18 A. Nindos , S. Patsourakos , C. E. Alissandrakis , T. S. Bastian

The control system (TICS) for the test interferometer being built to support the development of the Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA)will itself be a prototype for the final ALMA array, providing a test for the distributed control…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2007-05-23 M. Pokorny , M. Brooks , B. Glendenning , G. Harris , R. Heald , F. Stauffer , J. Pisano

In recent years there have been significant improvements in the sensitivity and the angular resolution of the instruments dedicated to the observation of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB). ACTPol is the first polarization receiver for…

The observational study of stars in the sub-millimetre regime has only rather recently begun and was made possible mainly by the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA). The emission mechanisms of this radiation from normal MS…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-08 Rene' Liseau

We report detection of oscillations in brightness temperature, size, and horizontal velocity of three small bright features in the chromosphere of a plage/enhanced-network region. The observations, which were taken with high temporal…

We review millimeter interferometric phase variations caused by variations in the precipitable water vapor content of the troposphere, and we discuss techniques proposed to correct for these variations. We present observations with the Very…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 C. L. Carilli , M. A. Holdaway

Many aspects of the Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) instrument are still unknown due to its young age. One such aspect is the true nature of the primary beam of each baseline, and how changes to the individual primary beams affect…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-07 Kara Kundert , Urvashi Rau , Edwin Bergin , Sanjay Bhatnagar

We report the use of the Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA) to conduct polarimetric observations of the sky at 5 GHz. The ATCA is normally operated as an interferometer array, but these observations were conducted in a split array…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-11 D. McConnell , E. Carretti , R. Subrahmanyan

The radio astronomical data analysis package CASA was selected to be the designated tool for observers to analyse the data from the Atacama Large mm/sub-mm Array (ALMA) which is under construction and has recently started taking its first…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 Dirk Petry

We use the Atacama Large sub/Millimetre Array (ALMA) to efficiently observe spectral lines across Bands 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8 at high-resolution (0.5" - 0.1") for 16 bright southern Herschel sources at $1.5 < z < 4.2$. With only six and a…

The intensity of radiation at millimeter wavelengths from the solar atmosphere is closely related to the plasma temperature and the height of formation of the radiation is wavelength dependent. From that follows that the slope of the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-18 Henrik Eklund , Mikolaj Szydlarski , Sven Wedemeyer
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