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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

The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) is the world's leading instrument for high-resolution imaging of the 0.3 to 10 mm wavelength sky. This interferometer exemplifies successful international collaboration even down to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-12 Tom Bakx , John Conway

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

Interferometric observations of the Sun with ALMA provide valuable diagnostic tools for studying the small-scale dynamics of the solar atmosphere. Estimations of the observability of the small-scale dynamics as a function of spatial…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-08 Henrik Eklund , Sven Wedemeyer , Mikołaj Szydlarski , Shahin Jafarzadeh

The precise mechanisms that provide the non-radiative energy for heating the chromosphere and the corona of the Sun and those of other stars constitute an active field of research. By studying stellar chromospheres one aims at identifying…

An online software tool for the easy preparation of ephemerides of the solar surface features is presented. It was developed as a helper tool for the preparation of observations of the Sun with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-18 I. Skokić , R. Brajša

Over the last 15 years, the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) has revolutionized astrophysics by providing unprecedented resolution and sensitivity in observing the cold universe, including the formation of stars, planets,…

The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) combines large collecting area and location on a high dry site to provide it with unparalleled potential for sensitive millimeter/submillimeter spectral line observations. Its wide…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Alwyn Wootten

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

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 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

The Atacama Large Millimeter Array, or ALMA, is an international telescope project which will be built over the coming decade in Northern Chile. With over 7000 m^2 of collecting area comprised of 64 12m antennas arrayed over baselines up to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Alwyn Wootten

The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) is currently revolutionizing observational astrophysics. The aperture synthesis technique provides angular resolution otherwise unachievable with the conventional single-aperture…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-06 Łukasz Tychoniec , Fabrizia Guglielmetti , Philipp Arras , Torsten Enßlin , Eric Villard

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.…

High-resolution observations of the solar chromosphere at millimeter wavelengths are now possible with the Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA), promising to tackle many open problems in solar physics. Observations from other ground and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-12 João M. da Silva Santos , Jaime de la Cruz Rodríguez , Jorrit Leenaarts

The Herschel Satellite and the Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) are two very large sub-mm and far infrared (FIR) astronomy projects that are expected to come into operation in this decade. This report contains descriptions of these…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 T. L. Wilson , D. Elbaz , eds

ALMA (Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array) is the world's largest ground-based facility for observations in the millimeter/submillimeter regime. One of ALMA's outstanding characteristics is the large effort dedicated to the quality…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-12 Theodoros Nakos , Harold Francke , Kouichiro Nakanishi , Dirk Petry , Thomas Stanke , Catarina Ubach , Luciano Cerrigone , Erica Keller , Alfonso Trejo , Junko Ueda

Solar observations with the Atacama Large Millimeter/sub-millimeter Array (ALMA) facilitate studying the atmosphere of the Sun at chromospheric heights at high spatial and temporal resolution at millimeter wavelengths. ALMA intensity data…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-23 Henrik Eklund , Sven Wedemeyer , Mikolaj Szydlarski , Shahin Jafarzadeh , Juan Camilo Guevara Gómez

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

We report the results of the Atacama Large Millimeter/sub-millimeter Array (ALMA) observations of the solar chromosphere on the southern polar limb. Coordinated observations with the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) are also…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-22 Takaaki Yokoyama , Masumi Shimojo , Takenori J. Okamoto , Haruhisa Iijima