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Related papers: Two years of ALMA bibliography - lessons learned

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Bibliometric studies have become increasingly important in evaluating individual scientists, specific facilities, and entire observatories. In this context, the ESO Library has developed and maintains two tools: FUSE, a full-text search…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2011-12-23 Silvia Meakins , Uta Grothkopf

The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array remains the largest mm radio interferometer observatory world-wide. It is now conducting its 11th observing cycle. In our previous paper presented at this conference series in 2020, we…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-09 Dirk Petry , María Díaz Trigo , Rüdiger Kneissl , Ignacio Toledo , Atsushi Miyazaki , Toshinobu Takagi , Ashley Barnes , Francesca Bonanomi

The Ca II H & K lines are strong chromospheric diagnostics that can be used to determine the temperature stratification and magnetic structure of the solar atmosphere. The Atacama Large Millimetre/Submillimetre Array (ALMA) offers…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-09 Sneha Pandit , Sven Wedemeyer , Mats Carlsson

ALMA is estimated to generate TB scale data during only one observation; astronomers manage to identify which part of the data they are really interested in. Now we have been developing new GUI software for this purpose utilizing the VO…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2012-11-19 Satoshi Eguchi , Wataru Kawasaki , Yuji Shirasaki , Yutaka Komiya , George Kosugi , Masatoshi Ohishi , Yoshihiko Mizumoto

This memo describes the system used to conduct commensal correlator and beamformer observations at the Allen Telescope Array (ATA). This system was deployed for ~2 years until the ATA hibernation in 2011 and was responsible for collecting…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2012-01-27 Peter K. G. Williams

We describe the calibration and imaging heuristics developed and deployed in the ALMA interferometric data processing pipeline, as of ALMA Cycle 9. The pipeline software framework is written in Python, with each data reduction stage layered…

The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) is an international radio telescope under construction in the Atacama Desert of northern Chile. ALMA is situated on a dry site at 5000 m elevation, allowing excellent atmospheric…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Alwyn Wootten , A. Richard Thompson

Observatory libraries traditionally have maintained databases of publications resulting from usage of their facilities. In the era of electronic publication, the methodology of the creation of these databases has perforce changed as well.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Sarah Stevens-Rayburn , Uta Grothkopf

The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) is the premier telescope for sensitive, high-resolution observations at millimeter and submillimeter wavelengths. The array consists of fifty 12-m diameter antennas that can be…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-31 John Carpenter , Daisuke Iono , Francisca Kemper , Al Wootten

The current generation of radio and millimeter telescopes, particularly the Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA), offers enormous advances in observing capabilities. While these advances represent an unprecedented opportunity to facilitate…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-26 Paul Rosen , Anil Seth , Betsy Mills , Adam Ginsburg , Julia Kamenetzky , Jeff Kern , Chris R. Johnson , Bei Wang

The digital revolution is transforming astronomy from a data-starved to a data-submerged science. Instruments such as the Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA), the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST), and the Square Kilometer Array…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2012-09-25 Melvyn Wright

ALMA is a revolutionary radio telescope at present and its full operation will start from 2012. It is expected that ALMA will resolve several cosmic questions and will show a new cosmic view to us. Our passion for astronomy naturally goes…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2011-06-20 Masao Saito , Satoru Iguchi

The formation of stars is usually accompanied by the launching of protostellar outflows. Observations with the Atacama Large Millimetre/sub-millimetre Array (ALMA) will soon revolutionalise our understanding of the morphologies and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-01-07 Thomas Peters , Pamela D. Klaassen , Daniel Seifried , Robi Banerjee , Ralf S. Klessen

We present a long-term overview of the atmospheric phase stability at the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) site, using >5 years of data, that acts as the successor to the studies summarized two decades ago by Evans et al…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-18 Luke T. Maud , Andrés F. Pérez-Sánchez , Yoshiharu Asaki , Felix Stoehr , Bill Dent , María Díaz Trigo

The importance of the Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) to the study of high-redshift dusty gas-rich galaxies is described. ALMA will have dramatically greater sensitivity and angular resolution than existing millimetre(mm) and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Andrew W. Blain

ALMA's high-resolution images allow to resolve the filamentary structure of the ISM down to few thousand au at kpc distances. We aim to systematically quantify the impact of the interferometric response and the effects of the short-spacing…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-08-07 F. Bonanomi , A. Hacar , A. Socci , D. Petry , S. Suri

Once completed, the Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) will be the most powerful (sub)millimeter interferometer in terms of sensitivity, spatial resolution and imaging. This paper presents the capabilities of ALMA applied to the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 A. Moullet , E. Lellouch , R. Moreno , M. Gurwell

The Atacama Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) Phasing Project (APP) has developed and deployed the hardware and software necessary to coherently sum the signals of individual ALMA antennas and record the aggregate sum in Very Long…

With the mainstream adoption of references to datasets in astronomical manuscripts, researchers today are able to provide direct links from their papers to the original data that were used in their study. Following a process similar to the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Alberto Accomazzi , Guenther Eichhorn , Arnold Rots

The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) is an international radio telescope under construction in the Atacama Desert of northern Chile. ALMA will be situated on a high-altitude site at 5000 m elevation which provides…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-04-11 A. J. Beasley , R. Murowinski , M. Tarenghi