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(abridged) The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) was the top-ranked priority for a new ground-based facility in the 2000 Canadian Long Range Plan. Ten years later, at the time of LRP2010, ALMA construction was well…

The Atacama Large Millimeter-submillimeter Array (ALMA) is a general purpose telescope that performs a broad program of astrophysical observations. Beginning in late-2016, solar observations with ALMA became available, thereby opening a new…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-14 Masumi Shimojo , Timothy S. Bastian , Seiji Kameno , Antonio S. Hales

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 Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), an international partnership of Europe, North America and East Asia in cooperation with the Republic of Chile, is the largest astronomical project in existence. While ALMA's…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-04-29 Felix Stoehr , Mark Lacy , Stéphane Leon , Erik Muller , Alisdair Manning , Christophe Moins , Dustin Jenkins

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

The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) is an international radio telescope under construction in the Atacama Desert of northern Chile. ALMA will be situated on a high-altitude site at 5000 m elevation which provides…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-04-11 A. J. Beasley , R. Murowinski , M. Tarenghi

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 ALMACAL survey is based on a database of reprocessed ALMA calibration scans suitable for scientific analysis, observed as part of regular PI observations. We present all the data accumulated from the start of ALMA operations until May…

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/submillimeter Array (ALMA) is a new powerful tool for observing the Sun at high spatial, temporal, and spectral resolution. These capabilities can address a broad range of fundamental scientific questions in…

The Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) will consist of up to 64 state-of-the-art sub-mm telescopes, subject to stringent performance specifications which will push the boundaries of the technology, and makes testing of antenna…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 R. C. Snel , J. G. Mangum , J. W. M. Baars

The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array(ALMA) Band 1 receiver covers the 35-50 GHz frequency band. Development of prototype receivers, including the key components and subsystems has been completed and two sets of prototype…

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 Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) offers new diagnostic possibilities that complement other commonly used diagnostics for the study of our Sun. In particular, ALMA's ability to serve as an essentially linear…

The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) will be a valuable tool for observing the chromosphere of our Sun at (sub-)millimeter wavelengths at high spatial, temporal and spectral resolution and as such has great potential to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-02-24 Sven Wedemeyer , Tim Bastian , Roman Brajsa , Miroslav Barta , Masumi Shimojo

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 Atacama Large millimetre/submillimetre Array (ALMA) makes use of water vapour radiometers (WVR), which monitor the atmospheric water vapour line at 183 GHz along the line of sight above each antenna to correct for phase delays…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-20 L. T. Maud , R. P. J. Tilanus , T. A. van Kempen , M. R. Hogerheijde , M. Schmalzl , I. Yoon , Y. Contreras , M. C. Toribio , Y. Asaki , W. R. F. Dent , E. Fomalont , S. Matsushita

The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) was used in 2021 to image the carbon-rich evolved star R Lep in Bands 8-10 (397-908 GHz) with baselines up to 16 km. The goal was to validate the calibration, using band-to-band (B2B)…

The Atacama Large (sub-)millimeter Array (ALMA) has been in scientific operations for almost 15 years. We celebrate this achievement by providing a summary of the ``Disks and planet formation'' scientific category, with an emphasis on the…

ALMA's high-resolution images allow to resolve the filamentary structure of the ISM down to few thousand au at kpc distances. We aim to systematically quantify the impact of the interferometric response and the effects of the short-spacing…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-08-07 F. Bonanomi , A. Hacar , A. Socci , D. Petry , S. Suri