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The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) offers new diagnostic capabilities for studying the Sun, providing complementary insights through high spatial and temporal resolution at millimeter wavelengths. ALMA acts as a linear…

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…

Telescope bibliographies record the pulse of astronomy research by capturing publication statistics and citation metrics for telescope facilities. Robust and scalable bibliographies ensure that we can measure the scientific impact of our…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-15 John F. Wu , Joshua E. G. Peek , Sophie J. Miller , Jenny Novacescu , Achu J. Usha , Christopher A. Wilkinson

This document was created by the Solar Simulations for the Atacama Large Millimeter Observatory Network (SSALMON) in preparation of the first regular observations of the Sun with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA),…

During recent years, bibliometric studies have become increasingly important in evaluating individual scientists, institutes, and entire observatories. In astronomy, often librarians are involved in maintaining publication databases and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-27 Uta Grothkopf , Jill Lagerstrom

Our understanding of the formation and evolution of planetary systems has made major advances in the past decade. This progress has been driven in large part by the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), which has given us an…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-09 Katherine de Kleer , Michael E. Brown , Martin Cordiner , Richard Teague

The Atacama Large Millimeter/Submillimeter Array (ALMA) is an international effort to construct an instrument capable of matching the exquisite imaging properties of optical space telescopes at millimeter and submillimeter wavelengths. ALMA…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jean L. Turner , Alwyn Wootten

While the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) is a uniquely powerful telescope, its impact in certain fields of astrophysics has been limited by observatory policies rather than the telescope's innate technical capabilities.…

In December 2016, the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) carried out the first regular observations of the Sun. These early observations and the reduction of the respective data posed a challenge due to the novelty and…

The Atacama Large Millimeter-submillimeter Array (ALMA), sited on the high desert plains of Chajnantor in Chile, has opened a new window onto solar physics in 2016 by providing continuum observations at millimeter and sub-millimeter…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-07 Timothy Bastian , Masumi Shimojo , Miroslav Barta , Stephen White , Kazumasa Iwai

The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), presently under construction, is a revolutionary astronomical interferometer, that will operate at (sub)millimeter wavelengths. With unprecedented sensitivity, resolution, and imaging…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2010-10-19 V. Casasola , J. Brand

Over the last 15 years, the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) has revolutionized astrophysics by providing unprecedented resolution and sensitivity in observing the cold universe, including the formation of stars, planets,…

Users of the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) are provided with calibration and imaging products in addition to raw data. In Cycle 0 and Cycle 1, these products are produced by a team of data reduction experts spread…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Scott Schnee , Crystal Brogan , Daniel Espada , Elizabeth Humphries , Shinya Komugi , Dirk Petry , Baltasar Vila-Vilaro , Eric Villard

The Atacama Large Millimetre/submillimetre Array (ALMA) is the world's most advanced radio interferometric facility, producing science data with an average rate of about 1 TB per day. After a process of calibration, imaging and quality…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-05-17 A. Wong , E. Hatziminaoglou , A. Borkar , G. Popping , I. Pérez-Fournon , F. Poidevin , F. Stoehr , H. Messias

The Solar Simulations for the Atacama Large Millimeter Observatory Network (SSALMON) was initiated in 2014 in connection with two ALMA development studies. The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) is a powerful new tool,…

ALMA provides the necessary spatial, temporal and spectral resolution to explore central questions in contemporary solar physics with potentially far-reaching implications for stellar atmospheres and plasma physics. It can uniquely…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-02-24 Sven Wedemeyer , Tim Bastian , Roman Brajsa , Miroslav Barta , Masumi Shimojo , Antonio Hales , Pavel Yagoubov , Hugh Hudson

Observations of the Sun at millimeter and submillimeter wavelengths offer a unique probe into the structure, dynamics, and heating of the chromosphere; the structure of sunspots; the formation and eruption of prominences and filaments; and…

An online software tool for the easy preparation of ephemerides of the solar surface features is presented. It was developed as a helper tool for the preparation of observations of the Sun with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-18 I. Skokić , R. Brajša

The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) combines large collecting area and location on a high dry site to provide it with unparalleled potential for sensitive millimeter/submillimeter spectral line observations. Its wide…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Alwyn Wootten

With high over-subscription rates and significant operational costs, observatories must ensure that their operations are efficient and effective. A number of key performance indicators are generally used to evaluate the observatory's…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-30 Felix Stoehr , Erik Muller , Mark Lacy , Stéphane Leon Tanne