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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 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

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 Atacama Large Millimetre/submillimetre Array (ALMA) is currently in the process of transforming our view of star-forming galaxies in the distant ($z\gtrsim1$) universe. Before ALMA, most of what we knew about dust-obscured star…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-01-18 Jacqueline A. Hodge , Elisabete da Cunha

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…

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 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,…

Science archives are cornerstones of modern astronomical facilities. In this paper we describe the version 1.0 milestone of the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array Science Archive. This version features a comprehensive query…

We present a detailed description of the special procedures for calibration and quality assurance of Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) observations in Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) mode. These procedures are…

The scientific impact of a facility is the most important measure of its success. Monitoring and analysing the scientific return can help to modify and optimise operations and adapt to the changing needs of scientific research. The…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-19 Felix Stoehr , Uta Grothkopf , Silvia Meakins , Marsha Bishop , Ayako Uchida , Leonardo Testi , Daisuke Iono , Kenichi Tatematsu , Al Wootten

The Large Latin American Millimeter Array (LLAMA for short) is a joint scientific and technological undertaking of Argentina and Brazil whose goal is to install and to operate an observing facility capable of performing observations of the…

We report major performance test results of the Atacama Compact Array (ACA) 7-m and 12-m antennas of ALMA (Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array). The four major performances of the ACA antennas are all-sky pointing (to be not more…

The rich information on (sub)millimeter dust continuum emission from distant galaxies in the public Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) archive is contained in thousands of inhomogeneous observations from individual PI-led…

The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array offers an unprecedented view of our Sun at sub-/millimeter wavelengths. The high spatial, temporal, and spectral resolution facilitates the measurement of gas temperatures and magnetic fields…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-02-18 Sven Wedemeyer , Asbjorn Parmer

Atacama Large Millimeter/Submillimeter Array (ALMA) is promising to be a powerful tool for precision astrometry of the area around Sagittarius A$^\ast$ (Sgr A$^\ast$) because it has the high angular resolution, high sensitivity, and wide…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-06-08 Masato Tsuboi , Takahiro Tsutsumi , Atsushi Miyazaki , Ryosuke Miyawaki , Makoto Miyoshi

The specifications of the Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) have placed stringent requirements on the mechanical performance of its antennas. As part of the evaluation process of the VertexRSI and Alcatel EIE Consortium (AEC) ALMA…

Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-20 A. Greve , J. G. Mangum

The increasing volume of papers and proposals that undergo peer review emphasizes the pressing need for greater automation to effectively manage the growing scale. In this study, we present the deployment and evaluation of machine learning…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-20 John M. Carpenter , Andrea Corvillón , Nihar B. Shah

A diverse array of science goals require accurate flux calibration of observations with the Atacama Large Millimeter/Submillimeter array (ALMA), however, this goal remains challenging due to the stochastic time-variability of the ``grid''…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-25 Logan Francis , Doug Johnstone , Gregory Herczeg , Todd R. Hunter , Daniel Harsono

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