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Using Contour Trees in the Analysis and Visualization of Radio Astronomy Data Cubes

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

An 86-GHz search for Pulsars in the Galactic Center with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array

We report on the first pulsar and transient survey of the Galactic Center (GC) with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA). The observations were conducted during the Global Millimeter VLBI Array campaign in 2017 and 2018.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-06-23 Kuo Liu , Gregory Desvignes , Ralph P. Eatough , Ramesh Karuppusamy , Michael Kramer , Pablo Torne , Robert Wharton , Shami Chatterjee , James M. Cordes , Geoffrey B. Crew , Ciriaco Goddi , Scott M. Ransom , Helge Rottmann , Federico Abbate , Geoffrey C. Bower , Christiaan D. Brinkerink , Heino Falcke , Aristeidis Noutsos , Antonio Hernandez-Gomez , Wu Jiang , Michael D. Johnson , Ru-Sen Lu , Yurii Pidopryhora , Luciano Rezzolla , Lijing Shao , Zhiqiang Shen , Norbert Wex

Monte Carlo studies for the optimisation of the Cherenkov Telescope Array layout

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is the major next-generation observatory for ground-based very-high-energy gamma-ray astronomy. It will improve the sensitivity of current ground-based instruments by a factor of five to twenty, depending…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-17 A. Acharyya , I. Agudo , E. O. Angüner , R. Alfaro , J. Alfaro , C. Alispach , R. Aloisio , R. Alves Batista , J. -P. Amans , L. Amati , E. Amato , G. Ambrosi , L. A. Antonelli , C. Aramo , T. Armstrong , F. Arqueros , L. Arrabito , K. Asano , H. Ashkar , C. Balazs , M. Balbo , B. Balmaverde , P. Barai , A. Barbano , M. Barkov , U. Barres de Almeida , J. A. Barrio , D. Bastieri , J. Becerra González , J. Becker Tjus , L. Bellizzi , W. Benbow , E. Bernardini , M. I. Bernardos , K. Bernlöhr , A. Berti , M. Berton , B. Bertucci , V. Beshley , B. Biasuzzi , C. Bigongiari , R. Bird , E. Bissaldi , J. Biteau , O. Blanch , J. Blazek , C. Boisson , G. Bonanno , A. Bonardi , C. Bonavolontà , G. Bonnoli , P. Bordas , M. Böttcher , J. Bregeon , A. Brill , A. M. Brown , K. Brügge , P. Brun , P. Bruno , A. Bulgarelli , T. Bulik , M. Burton , A. Burtovoi , G. Busetto , R. Cameron , R. Canestrari , M. Capalbi , A. Caproni , R. Capuzzo-Dolcetta , P. Caraveo , S. Caroff , R. Carosi , S. Casanova , E. Cascone , F. Cassol , F. Catalani , O. Catalano , D. Cauz , M. Cerruti , S. Chaty , A. Chen , M. Chernyakova , G. Chiaro , M. Cieślar , S. M. Colak , V. Conforti , E. Congiu , J. L. Contreras , J. Cortina , A. Costa , H. Costantini , G. Cotter , P. Cristofari , P. Cumani , G. Cusumano , A. D'Aì , F. D'Ammando , L. Dangeon , P. Da Vela , F. Dazzi , A. De Angelis , V. De Caprio , R. de Cássia dos Anjos , F. De Frondat , E. M. de Gouveia Dal Pino , B. De Lotto , D. De Martino , M. de Naurois , E. de Oña Wilhelmi , F. de Palma , V. de Souza , M. Del Santo , C. Delgado , D. della Volpe , T. Di Girolamo , F. Di Pierro , L. Di Venere , C. Díaz , S. Diebold , A. Djannati-Ataï , A. Dmytriiev , D. Dominis Prester , A. Donini , D. Dorner , M. Doro , J. -L. Dournaux , J. Ebr , T. R. N. Ekoume , D. Elsässer , G. Emery , D. Falceta-Goncalves , E. Fedorova , S. Fegan , Q. Feng , G. Ferrand , E. Fiandrini , A. Fiasson , M. Filipovic , V. Fioretti , M. Fiori , S. Flis , M. V. Fonseca , G. Fontaine , L. Freixas Coromina , S. Fukami , Y. Fukui , S. Funk , M. Füßling , D. Gaggero , G. Galanti , R. J. Garcia López , M. Garczarczyk , D. Gascon , T. Gasparetto , M. Gaug , A. Ghalumyan , F. Gianotti , G. Giavitto , N. Giglietto , F. Giordano , M. Giroletti , J. Gironnet , J. -F. Glicenstein , R. Gnatyk , P. Goldoni , J. M. González , M. M. González , K. N. Gourgouliatos , T. Grabarczyk , J. Granot , D. Green , T. Greenshaw , M. -H. Grondin , O. Gueta , D. Hadasch , T. Hassan , M. Hayashida , M. Heller , O. Hervet , J. Hinton , N. Hiroshima , B. Hnatyk , W. Hofmann , P. Horvath , M. Hrabovsky , D. Hrupec , T. B. Humensky , M. Hütten , T. Inada , F. Iocco , M. Ionica , M. Iori , Y. Iwamura , M. Jamrozy , P. Janecek , D. Jankowsky , P. Jean , L. Jouvin , J. Jurysek , P. Kaaret , L. H. S. Kadowaki , S. Karkar , D. Kerszberg , B. Khélifi , D. Kieda , S. Kimeswenger , W. Kluźniak , J. Knapp , J. Knödlseder , Y. Kobayashi , B. Koch , J. Kocot , N. Komin , A. Kong , G. Kowal , M. Krause , H. Kubo , J. Kushida , P. Kushwaha , V. La Parola , G. La Rosa , M. Lallena Arquillo , R. G. Lang , J. Lapington , O. Le Blanc , J. Lefaucheur , M. A. Leigui de Oliveira , M. Lemoine-Goumard , J. -P. Lenain , G. Leto , R. Lico , E. Lindfors , T. Lohse , S. Lombardi , F. Longo , A. Lopez , M. López , A. Lopez-Oramas , R. López-Coto , S. Loporchio , P. L. Luque-Escamilla , E. Lyard , M. C. Maccarone , E. Mach , C. Maggio , P. Majumdar , G. Malaguti , M. Mallamaci , D. Mandat , G. Maneva , M. Manganaro , S. Mangano , M. Marculewicz , M. Mariotti , J. Martí , M. Martínez , G. Martínez , H. Martínez-Huerta , S. Masuda , N. Maxted , D. Mazin , J. -L. Meunier , M. Meyer , S. Micanovic , R. Millul , I. A. Minaya , A. Mitchell , T. Mizuno , R. Moderski , L. Mohrmann , T. Montaruli , A. Moralejo , D. Morcuende , G. Morlino , A. Morselli , E. Moulin , R. Mukherjee , P. Munar , C. Mundell , T. Murach , A. Nagai , T. Nagayoshi , T. Naito , T. Nakamori , R. Nemmen , J. Niemiec , D. Nieto , M. Nievas Rosillo , M. Nikołajuk , D. Ninci , K. Nishijima , K. Noda , D. Nosek , M. Nöthe , S. Nozaki , M. Ohishi , Y. Ohtani , A. Okumura , R. A. Ong , M. Orienti , R. Orito , M. Ostrowski , N. Otte , Z. Ou , I. Oya , A. Pagliaro , M. Palatiello , M. Palatka , R. Paoletti , J. M. Paredes , G. Pareschi , N. Parmiggiani , R. D. Parsons , B. Patricelli , A. Pe'er , M. Pech , P. Peñil Del Campo , J. Pérez-Romero , M. Perri , M. Persic , P. -O. Petrucci , O. Petruk , K. Pfrang , Q. Piel , E. Pietropaolo , M. Pohl , M. Polo , J. Poutanen , E. Prandini , N. Produit , H. Prokoph , M. Prouza , H. Przybilski , G. Pühlhofer , M. Punch , F. Queiroz , A. Quirrenbach , S. Rainò , R. Rando , S. Razzaque , O. Reimer , N. Renault-Tinacci , Y. Renier , D. Ribeiro , M. Ribó , J. Rico , F. Rieger , V. Rizi , G. Rodriguez Fernandez , J. C. Rodriguez-Ramirez , J. J. Rodríguez Vázquez , P. Romano , G. Romeo , M. Roncadelli , J. Rosado , G. Rowell , B. Rudak , A. Rugliancich , C. Rulten , I. Sadeh , L. Saha , T. Saito , S. Sakurai , F. Salesa Greus , P. Sangiorgi , H. Sano , M. Santander , A. Santangelo , R. Santos-Lima , A. Sanuy , K. Satalecka , F. G. Saturni , U. Sawangwit , S. Schlenstedt , P. Schovanek , F. Schussler , U. Schwanke , E. Sciacca , S. Scuderi , K. Sedlaczek , M. Seglar-Arroyo , O. Sergijenko , K. Seweryn , A. Shalchi , R. C. Shellard , H. Siejkowski , A. Sillanpää , A. Sinha , G. Sironi , V. Sliusar , A. Slowikowska , H. Sol , A. Specovius , S. Spencer , G. Spengler , A. Stamerra , S. Stanič , Ł. Stawarz , S. Stefanik , T. Stolarczyk , U. Straumann , T. Suomijarvi , P. Świerk , T. Szepieniec , G. Tagliaferri , H. Tajima , T. Tam , F. Tavecchio , L. Taylor , L. A. Tejedor , P. Temnikov , T. Terzic , V. Testa , L. Tibaldo , C. J. Todero Peixoto , F. Tokanai , L. Tomankova , D. Tonev , D. F. Torres , G. Tosti , L. Tosti , N. Tothill , F. Toussenel , G. Tovmassian , P. Travnicek , C. Trichard , G. Umana , V. Vagelli , M. Valentino , B. Vallage , P. Vallania , L. Valore , J. Vandenbroucke , G. S. Varner , G. Vasileiadis , V. Vassiliev , M. Vázquez Acosta , M. Vecchi , S. Vercellone , S. Vergani , G. P. Vettolani , A. Viana , C. F. Vigorito , J. Vink , V. Vitale , H. Voelk , A. Vollhardt , S. Vorobiov , S. J. Wagner , R. Walter , F. Werner , R. White , A. Wierzcholska , M. Will , D. A. Williams , R. Wischnewski , L. Yang , T. Yoshida , T. Yoshikoshi , M. Zacharias , L. Zampieri , M. Zavrtanik , D. Zavrtanik , A. A. Zdziarski , A. Zech , H. Zechlin , A. Zenin , V. I. Zhdanov , S. Zimmer , J. Zorn

Solar ALMA observations: constraining the chromosphere above sunspots

We present the first high-resolution Atacama Large Millimeter/Submillimeter Array (ALMA) observations of a sunspot at wavelengths of 1.3 mm and 3 mm, obtained during the solar ALMA Science Verification campaign in 2015, and compare them…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-29 Maria Loukitcheva , Kazumasa Iwai , Sami K. Solanki , Stephen M. White , Masumi Shimojo

The ALMA Band 9 receiver - Design, construction, characterization, and first light

We describe the design, construction, and characterization of the Band 9 heterodyne receivers (600-720 GHz) for the Atacama Large Millimeter / submillimeter Array (ALMA). The ALMA Band 9 receiver units ("cartridges"), which are installed in…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 A. M. Baryshev , R. Hesper , F. P. Mena , T. M. Klapwijk , T. A. van Kempen , M. R. Hogerheijde , B. D. Jackson , J. Adema , G. J. Gerlofsma , M. E. Bekema , J. Barkhof , L. H. R. de Haan-Stijkel , M. van den Bemt , A. Koops , K. Keizer , C. Pieters , J. Koops van het Jagt , H. H. A. Schaeffer , T. Zijlstra , M. Kroug , C. F. J. Lodewijk , K. Wielinga , W. Boland , M. W. M. de Graauw , E. F. van Dishoeck , H. Jager , W. Wild

An ALMA survey of submillimeter galaxies in the Extended Chandra Deep Field South: Source catalog and multiplicity

We present an Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) Cycle 0 survey of 126 submillimeter sources from the LABOCA ECDFS Submillimeter Survey (LESS). Our 870 micron survey with ALMA (ALESS) has produced maps ~3X deeper and with a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 J. A. Hodge , A. Karim , I. Smail , A. M. Swinbank , F. Walter , A. D. Biggs , R. J. Ivison , A. Weiss , D. M. Alexander , F. Bertoldi , W. N. Brandt , S. C. Chapman , K. E. K. Coppin , P. Cox , A. L. R. Danielson , H. Dannerbauer , C. De Breuck , R. Decarli , A. C. Edge , T. R. Greve , K. K. Knudsen , K. M. Menten , H. -W. Rix , E. Schinnerer , J. M. Simpson , J. L. Wardlow , P. van der Werf

ALMA publication statistics

The success of an astronomical facility is measured by its scientific impact. A principal metric for this impact is the ensemble of peer-reviewed publications based on the observational data obtained by the facility. We present a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-26 Felix Stoehr , María Díaz Trigo , Evanthia Hatziminaoglou , Uta Grothkopf , Silvia Meakins , Leslie Kiefer , Lance Utley , Mika Konuma , Eelco van Kampen , Gergö Popping , Enrique Macias , Martin Zwaan

Design of the tertiary optical system for the Large Latin American Millimeter Array radio telescope

Many modern radio telescopes employ an observational strategy that involves maximizing the use of their available spaces (cabins), outfitting them with various receivers at different frequencies to detect incoming signals from the sky…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-24 Emiliano Rasztocky , Matias Rolf Hampel , Rodrigo Reeves , Jacques R. D. Lepine , Gustavo Esteban Romero

The ALMA-QUARKS Survey: II. the ACA 1.3 mm continuum source catalog and the assembly of dense gas in massive star-forming clumps

Leveraging the high resolution, high sensitivity, and wide frequency coverage of the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), the QUARKS survey, standing for "Querying Underlying mechanisms of massive star formation with…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-04-08 Fengwei Xu , Ke Wang , Tie Liu , Lei Zhu , Guido Garay , Xunchuan Liu , Paul Goldsmith , Qizhou Zhang , Patricio Sanhueza , Shengli Qin , Jinhua He , Mika Juvela , Anandmayee Tej , Hongli Liu , Shanghuo Li , Kaho Morii , Siju Zhang , Jianwen Zhou , Amelia Stutz , Neal J. Evans , Kim Kee-Tae , Shengyuan Liu , Diego Mardones , Guangxing Li , Leonardo Bronfman , Ken'ichi Tatematsu , Chang Won Lee , Xing Lu , Xiaofeng Mai , Sihan Jiao , James O. Chibueze , Keyun Su , L. Viktor Toth

Modelling high-resolution ALMA observations of strongly lensed dustystar forming galaxies detected by Herschel

We present modelling of ~0.1arcsec resolution Atacama Large Millimetre/sub-millimeter Array imaging of seven strong gravitationally lensed galaxies detected by the Herschel Space Observatory. Four of these systems are galaxy-galaxy scale…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-03-14 Jacob Maresca , Simon Dye , Aristeidis Amvrosiadis , George Bendo , Asantha Cooray , Gianfranco De Zotti , Loretta Dunne , Stephen Eales , Cristina Furlanetto , Joaquin González-Nuevo , Michael Greener , Robert Ivison , Andrea Lapi , Mattia Negrello , Dominik Riechers , Stephen Serjeant , Mônica Tergolina , Julie Wardlow

Prime-Cam: A first-light instrument for the CCAT-prime telescope

CCAT-prime will be a 6-meter aperture telescope operating from sub-mm to mm wavelengths, located at 5600 meters elevation on Cerro Chajnantor in the Atacama Desert in Chile. Its novel crossed-Dragone optical design will deliver a high…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-28 Eve M. Vavagiakis , Zeeshan Ahmed , Aamir Ali , Kaustuv Basu , Nicholas Battaglia , Frank Bertoldi , Richard Bond , Ricardo Bustos , Scott C. Chapman , Dongwoo Chung , Gabriele Coppi , Nicholas F. Cothard , Simon Dicker , Cody J. Duell , Shannon M. Duff , Jens Erler , Michel Fich , Nicholas Galitzki , Patricio A. Gallardo , Shawn W. Henderson , Terry L. Herter , Gene Hilton , Johannes Hubmayr , Kent D. Irwin , Brian J. Koopman , Jeffrey McMahon , Norman Murray , Michael D. Niemack , Thomas Nikolas , Michael Nolta , John L. Orlowski-Scherer , Stephen C. Parshley , Dominik A. Riechers , Kayla Rossi , Douglas Scott , Carlos Sierra , Max Silva-Feaver , Sara M. Simon , Gordon J. Stacey , Jason R. Stevens , Joel N. Ullom , Michael R. Vissers , Samantha Walker , Edward J. Wollack , Zhilei Xu , Ningfeng Zhu

ALMA Thermal Observations of Europa

We present four daytime thermal images of Europa taken with the Atacama Large Millimeter Array. Together, these images comprise the first spatially resolved thermal dataset with complete coverage of Europa's surface. The resulting…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-31 Samantha K. Trumbo , Michael E. Brown , Bryan J. Butler

Upgrading the Submillimeter Array: wSMA and beyond

The Submillimeter Array (SMA) is an array of 8 antennas operating at millimeter and submillimeter wavelengths on Maunakea, Hawaii, operated by the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory and Academia Sinica Institute of Astronomy and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-26 Paul K. Grimes , Garrett K. Keating , Raymond Blundell , Robert D. Christensen , Mark Gurwell , Attila Kovacs , Timothy Norton , Scott N. Paine , Ramprasad Rao , Edward C. -Y. Tong , Jonathan Weintroub , David Wilner , Robert W. Wilson , Lingzhen Zeng , Qizhou Zhang

A kpc-scale resolved study of unobscured and obscured star-formation activity in normal galaxies at z = 1.5 and 2.2 from ALMA and HiZELS

We present Atacama Large Millimeter/Submillimeter Array (ALMA) continuum observations of a sample of nine star-forming galaxies at redshifts 1.47 and 2.23 selected from the High-$z$ Emission Line Survey (HiZELS). Four galaxies in our sample…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-11-11 Cheng Cheng , Edo Ibar , Ian Smail , Juan Molina , David Sobral , Andres Escala , Philip Best , Rachel Cochrane , Steven Gillman , Mark Swinbank , R. J. Ivison , Jia-Sheng Huang , Thomas M. Hughes , Eric Villard , Michele Cirasuolo

3D Detection and Characterisation of ALMA Sources through Deep Learning

We present a Deep-Learning (DL) pipeline developed for the detection and characterization of astronomical sources within simulated Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) data cubes. The pipeline is composed of six DL models: a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-22 Michele Delli Veneri , Lukasz Tychoniec , Fabrizia Guglielmetti , Giuseppe Longo , Eric Villard

High-frequency oscillations in small chromospheric bright features observed with ALMA

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…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-06 Juan Camilo Guevara Gómez , Shahin Jafarzadeh , Sven Wedemeyer , Mikolaj Szydlarski , Marco Stangalini , Bernhard Fleck , Peter Keys

The Simons Observatory: Design, Integration, and Current Status of Small Aperture Telescopes

The Simons Observatory (SO) is a cosmic microwave background (CMB) survey experiment located in the Atacama Desert in Chile at an elevation of 5200 meters, nominally consisting of an array of three 0.42-meter small aperture telescopes…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-03 Aashrita Mangu , Lance Corbett , Sanah Bhimani , Fred Carl , Samuel Day-Weiss , Brooke DiGia , Josquin Errard , Nicholas Galitzki , Masashi Hazumi , Shawn W. Henderson , Varun Kabra , Amber Miller , Jenna Moore , Xue Song , Tran Tsan , Yuhan Wang , Andrea Zonca

ALMA 690 GHz observations of IRAS 16293-2422B: Infall in a highly optically-thick disk

We present sensitive, high angular resolution ($\sim$ 0.2 arcsec) submillimeter continuum and line observations of IRAS 16293-2422B made with the Atacama Large Millimeter/Submillimeter Array (ALMA). The 0.45 mm continuum observations reveal…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-12 Luis A. Zapata , Laurent Loinard , Luis F. Rodriguez , Vicente Hernandez-Hernandez , Satoko Takahashi , Alfonso Trejo , Berengere Parise

The Simons Observatory: laboratory beam characterization for the first small aperture telescope

The Simons Observatory is a ground-based telescope array located at an elevation of 5200 meters, in the Atacama Desert in Chile, designed to measure the temperature and polarization of the cosmic microwave background. It comprises four…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-13 Remington G. Gerras , Thomas Alford , Michael J. Randall , Joseph Seibert , Grace Chesmore , Kevin T. Crowley , Nicholas Galitzki , Jon Gudmundsson , Kathleen Harrington , Bradley R. Johnson , J. B. Lloyd , Amber D. Miller , Max Silva-Feaver

ALMA resolves extended star formation in high-z AGN host galaxies

We present high resolution (0.3") Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) 870um imaging of five z~1.5-4.5 X-ray detected AGN with luminosities of L(2-8keV)>10^42 erg/s. These data provide a >~20x improvement in spatial resolution over…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-02-17 C. M. Harrison , J. M. Simpson , F. Stanley , D. M. Alexander , E. Daddi , J. R. Mullaney , M. Pannella , D. J. Rosario , Ian Smail