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Various solar features can be seen on maps of the Sun in the mm and sub-mm wavelength range. The recently installed Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) is capable of observing the Sun in that wavelength range with an…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-30 R. Brajša , D. Sudar , A. O. Benz , I. Skokić , M. Bárta , B. De Pontieu , S. Kim , A. Kobelski , M. Kuhar , M. Shimojo , S. Wedemeyer , S. White , P. Yagoubov , Y. Yan

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

Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) will be the world largest mm/submm interferometer, and currently the Early Science is ongoing, together with the commissioning and science verification (CSV). Here we present a study of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 S. Matsushita , K. -I. Morita , D. Barkats , R. E. Hills , E. Fomalont , B. Nikolic

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

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

ALMA will revolutionize our understanding of star formation within our galaxy, but before we can use ALMA we need to know where to look. The Millimeter Astronomy Legacy Team 90 GHz (MALT90) Survey is a large international project to map the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2013-03-14 Jonathan B. Foster , Jill M. Rathborne , James M. Jackson , Steve N. Longmore , Scott Whitaker , Sadia Hoq

Among the numerous known extrasolar planets, only a handful have been imaged directly so far, at large orbital radii and in rather evolved systems. The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) will have the capacity to observe…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Jean-François Gonzalez , Christophe Pinte , Sarah T. Maddison , François Ménard

In 2017, an Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) high-frequency long baseline campaign was organized to test image capabilities with baselines up to 16 km at submillimeter (submm) wavelengths. We investigated image qualities…

The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter (ALMA) Array Front End (FE) system is the first element in a complex chain of signal receiving, conversion, processing and recording. 70 Front Ends will be required for the project. The Front End…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2010-09-02 Geoffrey A. Ediss , Joshua Crabtree , Kirk Crady , Erik Gaines , Morgan McLeod , Greg Morris , Rick Williams , Antonio Perfetto , John Webber

The unprecedented sensitivity of the Atacama Large millimeter/submillimeter array (ALMA) is providing many new discoveries. Several of these are serendipitous to the original goal of the observations. We report the discovery of previously…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-21 W. Vlemmings , S. Ramstedt , M. Maercker , B. Davidsson

The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), and the Jansky Very Large Array (JVLA) have recently begun probing the Universe. Both provide the largest collecting area available at locations on a high dry site, endowing them with…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Alwyn Wootten

The development of the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) phasing system (APS) has allowed ALMA to function as an extraordinarily sensitive station for very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) at frequencies of up to 230…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-15 G. B. Crew , C. Goddi , L. D. Matthews , H. Rottmann , A. Saez , I. Marti-Vidal

The (sub)millimeter radiation of solar flares is poorly understood. Without spatial resolution, it cannot be compared easily to flare emissions in other wavelengths. The Atacama Large Millimeter-submillimeter Array (ALMA) offers sufficient…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-01 I. Skokić , A. O. Benz , R. Brajša , D. Sudar , F. Matković , M. Bárta

In a radio interferometer, the determination of geometrical antenna positions relies on accurate calibration of the dry and wet delay of the atmosphere above each antenna. For the Atacama Large Millimeter/Submillimeter Array (ALMA), which…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-14 Todd R. Hunter , Robert Lucas , Dominique Broguiere , Ed B. Fomalont , William R. F. Dent , Neil Phillips , David Rabanus , Catherine Vlahakis

The aim of this study is to demonstrate how the logarithmic millimeter continuum gradient observed using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) may be used to estimate optical thickness in the solar atmosphere. We discuss…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-01 Andrew S. Rodger , Nicolas Labrosse , Sven Wedemeyer , Mikolaj Szydlarski , Paulo J. A. Simões , Lyndsay Fletcher

Thanks to deep optical to near-IR imaging and spectroscopy, significant progress is made in characterizing the rest-frame UV to optical properties of galaxies in the early universe (z > 4). Surveys with Hubble, Spitzer, and ground-based…

CASA, the Common Astronomy Software Applications, is the primary data processing software for the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) and the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA), and is often used also for other radio…

(abridged) The Atacama Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope (AtLAST) project aims to build a 50-m-class submm telescope with $>1^\circ$ field of view, high in the Atacama Desert, providing fast and detailed mapping of the mm/submm sky. It…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-09 Christopher Groppi , Andrey Baryshev , Urs Graf , Martina Wiedner , Pamela Klaassen , Tony Mroczkowski

We summarize the design, capabilities, and some of the priority science goals of a next generation Very Large Array (ngVLA). The ngVLA is an interferometric array with 10x larger effective collecting area and 10x higher spatial resolution…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-23 C. L. Carilli , M. McKinnon , J. Ott , A. Beasley , A. Isella , E. Murphy , A. Leroy , C. Casey , A. Moullet , M. Lacy , J. Hodge , G. Bower , P. Demorest , C. Hull , M. Hughes , J. di Francesco , D. Narayanan , B. Kent , B. Clark , B. Butler