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The CHARA Array is a six 1-m telescope optical and near infrared interferometer located at the Mount Wilson Observatory in southern California and operated by the Center for High Angular Resolution Astronomy of Georgia State University. The…

We present Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) observations of a quiet-Sun region at a wavelength of 3 mm, obtained during the first solar ALMA cycle on April 27, 2017, and compare them with available chromospheric…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-06-05 Maria A. Loukitcheva , Stephen M. White , Sami K. Solanki

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 next generation Very Large Array project (ngVLA) would represent a major step forward in sensitivity and resolution for radio astronomy, with ability to achieve 2 milli-arcsec resolution at 100 GHz (assuming a maximum baseline of 300…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-12 David T. Frayer

After eight observing Cycles, the Atacama Large Millimeter-submillimeter Array (ALMA) is capable of observing in eight different bands (covering a frequency range from 84 to 950 GHz), with 66 antennas and two correlators. For the current…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-12 Jorge F. García Yus , Bill Dent , Drew Brisbin , Chin-Shin Chang , Laura Gómez , Theodoros Nakos

LOFAR, the Low Frequency Array, is a large radio telescope consisting about 100 soccer field sized antenna stations spread over a region of 400 km in diameter. It will operate in the frequency range from ~10 to 240 MHz, with a resolution at…

The Submillimeter Array (SMA) was conceived at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory in 1984 as a six element interferometer to operate in the major atmospheric windows from about 200 to 900 GHz. In 1996, the Academica Sinica Institute…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 R. Blundell

We present the first results from the ALHAMBRA survey. ALHAMBRA will cover a relatively wide area (4 square degrees) using a purposely-designed set of 20 medium-band filters, down to an homogeneous magnitude limit AB~25 in most of them,…

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 Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is the next generation of Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes. It will reach a sensitivity and an energy resolution with no precendent in very high energy gamma-ray astronomy. In order to achieve…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 A. López-Oramas , O. Abril , O. Blanch Bigas , J. Boix , V. Da Deppo , M. Doro , L. Font , D. Garrido , M. Gaug , M. Martínez , G. Vasileiadis

The Simons Observatory (SO) is a cosmic microwave background (CMB) experiment located in the Atacama Desert in Chile that will make precise temperature and polarization measurements over six spectral bands ranging from 27 to 285 GHz. Three…

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 Atacama Large Millimeter/sub-millimeter Array (ALMA) is already revolutionising our understanding of the Universe. However, ALMA is not yet equipped with all of its originally planned receiver bands, which will allow it to observe over…

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…

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…

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.…

The Cherenkov Telescopes Array (CTA) is planned to be an Observatory for very high energy gamma ray astronomy and will consist of several tens of telescopes which account for a reflective surface of more than 10000 m$^2$. The mirrors of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 M. C. Medina , B. Garcia , J. Maya , A. Mancilla , J. J. Larrarte , E. Rasztocky , M. Benitez , J. Dipold , M. Platino

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope is a project to map the microwave background radiation at arcminute angular resolution and high sensitivity in three frequency bands over substantial sky areas. Cosmological signals driving such an experiment…

Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 Arthur Kosowsky