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Evolution of star formation and gas

In these lectures I review observations of star-forming molecular clouds in our Galaxy and nearby galaxies to develop a physical intuition for understanding star formation in the local and high-redshift Universe. A lot of this material is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-11-05 Nick Z. Scoville

Review of scientific topics for Millimetron space observatory

This paper describes outstanding issues in astrophysics and cosmology that can be solved by astronomical observations in a broad spectral range from far infrared to millimeter wavelengths. The discussed problems related to the formation of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-02-24 N. S. Kardashev , I. D. Novikov , V. N. Lukash , S. V. Pilipenko , E. V. Mikheeva , D. V. Bisikalo , D. S. Wiebe , A. G. Doroshkevich , A. V. Zasov , I. I. Zinchenko , P. B. Ivanov , V. I. Kostenko , T. I. Larchenkova , S. F. Likhachev , I. F. Malov , V. M. Malofeev , A. S. Pozanenko , A. V. Smirnov , A. M. Sobolev , A. M. Cherepashchuk , Yu. A. Shchekinov

ATT12: The Antarctic 12-m Terahertz Telescope for Studies of Dusty Galaxies. I. Instrument Sensitivity and Science Forecasts

We present a feasibility study of the Antarctic 12m Terahertz Telescope (ATT12), a next-generation facility to be constructed at New Dome Fuji in Antarctica, designed to open up the FIR and THz windows for extragalactic astronomy. While…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-03-20 Koki Wakasugi , Takuya Hashimoto , Nario Kuno , Yu Nagai , Naomasa Nakai , Ken Mawatari , Masumichi Seta , Shun Ishii , Shunsuke Honda , Mana Ito , Hiroshi Matsuo , Makoto Nagai , Yuri Nishimura , Dragan Salak , Kazuo Sorai , Hidenobu Yajima

ALMA Central Molecular Zone Exploration Survey (ACES) I: Overview

The mass flows and energy cycles within the inner regions of galaxies exert a powerful influence on the evolution of the galaxy population. The centre of the Milky Way is the only galactic nucleus for which it is possible to resolve the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-02-25 Steven N. Longmore , John Bally , Ashley T. Barnes , Cara Battersby , Laura Colzi , Adam Ginsburg , Jonathan D. Henshaw , Paul T. P. Ho , Izaskun Jiménez-Serra , J. M. Diederik Kruijssen , Elisabeth A. C. Mills , Maya A. Petkova , Mattia C. Sormani , Robin G. Tress , Daniel L. Walker , Jennifer Wallace , Emad Alkhuja , Lucia Armillotta , Nazar Budaiev , Rojita Buddhacharya , Alyssa Bulatek , Michael Burton , Natalie O. Butterfield , Laura A. Busch , Paola Caselli , Mélanie Chevance , Claire Cook , Samuel Crowe , Ana Karla Díaz-Rodríguez , Enrico DiTeodoro , Simon R. Dicker , Katarzyna M. Dutkowska , Adam Fairley , Christoph Federrath , Rubén Fedriani , Zi-Xuan Feng , Karl Fiteni , Gary Fuller , Pablo García , Javier Goicoechea , Philipp Girichidis , Simon C. O. Glover , Mark Gorski , Savannah R. Gramze , Qi-Lao Gu , H. Perry Hatchfield , Christian Henkel , Rebecca J. Houghton , Pei-Ying Hsieh , Yue Hu , Katharina Immer , Desmond Jeff , Janik Karoly , Jens Kauffmann , Ralf S. Klessen , Mark R. Krumholz , Alex Lazarian , Emily M. Levesque , Fu-Heng Liang , Dani Lipman , Xunchuan Liu , Xing Lu , Qiu-yi Luo , Alessandro Lupi , Laura McCafferty , S. Martín , Farideh Mazoochi , Mark R. Morris , Marie Nonhebel , Francisco Nogueras-Lara , Tomoharu Oka , Juergen Ott , Marco Padovani , Xing Pan , Jaime E. Pineda , Thushara G. S. Pillai , Marc W. Pound , Miguel Requena Torres , Denise Riquelme-Vásquez , Víctor M. Rivilla , Galaxy Salo , Álvaro Sánchez-Monge , Miriam G. Santa-Maria , Rainer Schoedel , Anika Schmiedeke , Matthias Schultheis , Howard A. Smith , Yoshiaki Sofue , Leonardo Testi , Grant R. Tremblay , Arianna Vasini , Gijs Vermariën , Alexey Vikhlinin , Serena Viti , Q. Daniel Wang , Fengwei Xu , Suinan Zhang , Qizhou Zhang

Our Second Look at the Immature Universe: The Infrared View

The long-awaited promise of studying high-redshift galaxies at long wavelengths has been partially eclipsed by progress at optical wavelengths, mostly because of the number of available pixels. It is nonetheless essential to study optically…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Matthew Malkan

Towards More Precise Survey Photometry for PanSTARRS and LSST: Measuring Directly the Optical Transmission Spectrum of the Atmosphere

Motivated by the recognition that variation in the optical transmission of the atmosphere is probably the main limitation to the precision of ground-based CCD measurements of celestial fluxes, we review the physical processes that attenuate…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Christopher W. Stubbs , F. William High , Matthew R. George , Kimberly L. DeRose , Stephane Blondin , John L. Tonry , Kenneth C. Chambers , Benjamin R. Granett , David L. Burke , R. Chris Smith

MUltiplexed Survey Telescope (MUST) Science White Paper I: Overview of Large-Scale Structure Cosmology in the Era of Stage-V Spectroscopic Surveys

The MUltiplexed Survey Telescope (MUST) is a 6.5-meter telescope under development. Dedicated to highly-multiplexed, wide-field spectroscopic surveys, MUST observes over 20,000 targets simultaneously using 6.2-mm pitch positioning robots…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-08 Cheng Zhao , Song Huang , Mengfan He , Paulo Montero-Camacho , Yu Liu , Pablo Renard , Yunyi Tang , Aurelien Verdier , Wenshuo Xu , Xiaorui Yang , Jiaxi Yu , Yao Zhang , Siyi Zhao , Xingchen Zhou , Shengyu He , Jean-Paul Kneib , Jiayi Li , Zhuoyang Li , Wen-Ting Wang , Zhong-Zhi Xianyu , Yidian Zhang , Rafaela Gsponer , Xiao-Dong Li , Antoine Rocher , Siwei Zou , Ting Tan , Zhiqi Huang , Zhuoxiao Wang , Pei Li , Maxime Rombach , Chenxing Dong , Daniel Forero-Sanchez , Yuanhang Ning , Huanyuan Shan , Tao Wang , Yin Li , Zhongxu Zhai , Yuting Wang , Gong-Bo Zhao , Yong Shi , Shude Mao , Lei Huang , Liquan Guo , Zheng Cai

WST -- Widefield Spectroscopic Telescope: design of a new 12m class telescope dedicated to widefield Multi-object and Integral Field Spectroscopy

The Wide-Field Spectroscopic Telescope (WST) is a concept for a 12-m class seeing-limited telescope providing two concentric fields of view for simultaneous Multi-Object Spectroscopy and Integral Field Spectroscopy. The specified wavelength…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-05 P. Dierickx , T. Travouillon , G. Gausachs , R. Bacon , C. Cudennec , I. Bryson , D. Lee , J. Kragt , E. Muslimov , K. Dohlen , J. Kosmalski , J. Vernet , T. Lépine , P. Doel , D. Brooks

An archival summary: 15 years of ALMA observations on disks and planet formation

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…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-29 Nicolas T. Kurtovic , Lizxandra Flores-Rivera , Laura M. Perez , Miguel Vioque , Myriam Benisty , Felipe Alarcón , Marcelo Barraza-Alfaro , Pietro Curone , Kiyoaki Doi , Sierra Grant , Haochang Jiang , Akimasa Kataoka , Feng Long , Álvaro Ribas , Anibal Sierra , Lucas Stapper , Milou Temmink , Francesco Zagaría

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

The Simons Observatory: Science Goals and Forecasts for the Enhanced Large Aperture Telescope

We describe updated scientific goals for the wide-field, millimeter-wave survey that will be produced by the Simons Observatory (SO). Significant upgrades to the 6-meter SO Large Aperture Telescope (LAT) are expected to be complete by 2028,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-11 The Simons Observatory Collaboration , M. Abitbol , I. Abril-Cabezas , S. Adachi , P. Ade , A. E. Adler , P. Agrawal , J. Aguirre , Z. Ahmed , S. Aiola , T. Alford , A. Ali , D. Alonso , M. A. Alvarez , R. An , K. Arnold , P. Ashton , Z. Atkins , J. Austermann , S. Azzoni , C. Baccigalupi , A. Baleato Lizancos , D. Barron , P. Barry , J. Bartlett , N. Battaglia , R. Battye , E. Baxter , A. Bazarko , J. A. Beall , R. Bean , D. Beck , S. Beckman , J. Begin , A. Beheshti , B. Beringue , T. Bhandarkar , S. Bhimani , F. Bianchini , E. Biermann , S. Biquard , B. Bixler , S. Boada , D. Boettger , B. Bolliet , J. R. Bond , J. Borrill , J. Borrow , C. Braithwaite , T. L. R. Brien , M. L. Brown , S. M. Bruno , S. Bryan , R. Bustos , H. Cai , E. Calabrese , V. Calafut , F. M. Carl , A. Carones , J. Carron , A. Challinor , P. Chanial , N. Chen , K. Cheung , B. Chiang , Y. Chinone , J. Chluba , H. S. Cho , S. K. Choi , M. Chu , J. Clancy , S. E. Clark , P. Clarke , J. Cleary , D. L. Clements , J. Connors , C. Contaldi , G. Coppi , L. Corbett , N. F. Cothard , W. Coulton , K. D. Crowley , K. T. Crowley , A. Cukierman , J. M. D'Ewart , K. Dachlythra , R. Datta , S. Day-Weiss , T. de Haan , M. Devlin , L. Di Mascolo , S. Dicker , B. Dober , C. Doux , P. Dow , S. Doyle , C. J. Duell , S. M. Duff , A. J. Duivenvoorden , J. Dunkley , D. Dutcher , R. Dünner , M. Edenton , H. El Bouhargani , J. Errard , G. Fabbian , V. Fanfani , G. S. Farren , J. Fergusson , S. Ferraro , R. Flauger , A. Foster , K. Freese , J. C. Frisch , A. Frolov , G. Fuller , N. Galitzki , P. A. Gallardo , J. T. Galvez Ghersi , K. Ganga , J. Gao , X. Garrido , E. Gawiser , M. Gerbino , R. Gerras , S. Giardiello , A. Gill , V. Gilles , U. Giri , E. Gleave , V. Gluscevic , N. Goeckner-Wald , J. E. Golec , S. Gordon , M. Gralla , S. Gratton , D. Green , J. C. Groh , C. Groppi , Y. Guan , N. Gupta , J. E. Guðmundsson , S. Hagstotz , P. Hargrave , S. Haridas , K. Harrington , I. Harrison , M. Hasegawa , M. Hasselfield , V. Haynes , M. Hazumi , A. He , E. Healy , S. W. Henderson , B. S. Hensley , E. Hertig , C. Hervías-Caimapo , M. Higuchi , C. A. Hill , J. C. Hill , G. Hilton , M. Hilton , A. D. Hincks , G. Hinshaw , R. Hložek , A. Y. Q. Ho , S. Ho , S. P. Ho , T. D. Hoang , J. Hoh , E. Hornecker , A. L. Hornsby , S. C. Hotinli , Z. Huang , Z. B. Huber , J. Hubmayr , K. Huffenberger , J. P. Hughes , A. Idicherian Lonappan , M. Ikape , K. Irwin , J. Iuliano , A. H. Jaffe , B. Jain , H. T. Jense , O. Jeong , A. Johnson , B. R. Johnson , M. Johnson , M. Jones , B. Jost , D. Kaneko , E. D. Karpel , Y. Kasai , N. Katayama , B. Keating , B. Keller , R. Keskitalo , J. Kim , T. Kisner , K. Kiuchi , J. Klein , K. Knowles , A. M. Kofman , B. J. Koopman , A. Kosowsky , R. Kou , N. Krachmalnicoff , D. Kramer , A. Krishak , A. Krolewski , A. Kusaka , A. Kusiak , P. La Plante , A. La Posta , A. Laguë , J. Lashner , M. Lattanzi , A. Lee , E. Lee , J. Leech , C. Lessler , J. S. Leung , A. Lewis , Y. Li , Z. Li , M. Limon , L. Lin , M. Link , J. Liu , Y. Liu , J. Lonergan , T. Louis , T. Lucas , M. Ludlam , M. Lungu , M. Lyons , N. MacCrann , A. MacInnis , M. Madhavacheril , D. Mak , F. Maldonado , M. Mallaby-Kay , A. Manduca , A. Mangu , H. Mani , A. S. Maniyar , G. A. Marques , J. Mates , T. Matsumura , P. Mauskopf , A. May , N. McCallum , H. McCarrick , F. McCarthy , M. McCulloch , J. McMahon , P. D. Meerburg , Y. Mehta , J. Melin , J. Meyers , A. Middleton , A. Miller , M. Mirmelstein , K. Moodley , J. Moore , M. Morshed , T. Morton , E. Moser , T. Mroczkowski , M. Murata , M. Münchmeyer , S. Naess , H. Nakata , T. Namikawa , M. Nashimoto , F. Nati , P. Natoli , M. Negrello , S. K. Nerval , L. Newburgh , D. V. Nguyen , A. Nicola , M. D. Niemack , H. Nishino , Y. Nishinomiya , A. Orlando , J. Orlowski-Scherer , L. Pagano , L. A. Page , S. Pandey , A. Papageorgiou , I. Paraskevakos , B. Partridge , R. Patki , M. Peel , K. Perez Sarmiento , F. Perrotta , P. Phakathi , L. Piccirillo , E. Pierpaoli , T. Pinsonneault-Marotte , G. Pisano , D. Poletti , R. Puddu , G. Puglisi , F. J. Qu , M. J. Randall , C. Ranucci , C. Raum , R. Reeves , C. L. Reichardt , M. Remazeilles , Y. Rephaeli , D. Riechers , J. Robe , M. F. Robertson , N. Robertson , K. Rogers , F. Rojas , A. Romero , E. Rosenberg , A. Rotti , S. Rowe , A. Roy , S. Sadeh , N. Sailer , K. Sakaguri , T. Sakuma , Y. Sakurai , M. Salatino , G. H. Sanders , D. Sasaki , M. Sathyanarayana Rao , T. P. Satterthwaite , L. Saunders , L. Scalcinati , E. Schaan , B. Schmitt , M. Schmittfull , N. Sehgal , J. Seibert , Y. Seino , U. Seljak , S. Shaikh , E. Shaw , P. Shellard , B. Sherwin , M. Shimon , J. E. Shroyer , C. Sierra , J. Sievers , C. Sifón , P. Sikhosana , M. Silva-Feaver , S. M. Simon , A. Sinclair , K. Smith , W. Sohn , X. Song , R. F. Sonka , D. Spergel , J. Spisak , S. T. Staggs , G. Stein , J. R. Stevens , R. Stompor , E. Storer , R. Sudiwala , J. Sugiyama , K. M. Surrao , S. Sutariya , A. Suzuki , J. Suzuki , O. Tajima , S. Takakura , A. Takeuchi , I. Tansieri , A. C. Taylor , G. Teply , T. Terasaki , A. Thomas , D. B. Thomas , R. Thornton , H. Trac , T. Tsan , E. Tsang King Sang , C. Tucker , J. Ullom , L. Vacher , L. Vale , A. van Engelen , J. Van Lanen , J. van Marrewijk , D. D. Van Winkle , C. Vargas , E. M. Vavagiakis , I. Veenendaal , C. Vergès , M. Vissers , M. Viña , K. Wagoner , S. Walker , L. Walters , Y. Wang , B. Westbrook , J. Williams , P. Williams , H. Winch , E. J. Wollack , K. Wolz , J. Wong , Z. Xu , K. Yamada , E. Young , B. Yu , C. Yu , M. Zannoni , K. Zheng , N. Zhu , A. Zonca , I. Zubeldia

LLAMA Millimeter and Submillimeter Observatory. Update on its Science Opportunities

The Large Latin American Millimeter Array (LLAMA for short) is a joint scientific and technological undertaking of Argentina and Brazil whose goal is to install and to operate an observing facility capable of performing observations of the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-20 M. Fernandez-Lopez , P. Benaglia , S. Cichowolski , F. S. Correra , G. Cristiani , T. P. Dominici , N. Duronea , G. Gimenez de Castro , J. R. D. Lepine , I. F. Mirabel , J. P. Raulin , H. Saldano , L. Suad , C. Valotto

The Disk Substructures at High Angular Resolution Project (DSHARP): I. Motivation, Sample, Calibration, and Overview

We introduce the Disk Substructures at High Angular Resolution Project (DSHARP), one of the initial Large Programs conducted with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA). The primary goal of DSHARP is to find and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-09 Sean M. Andrews , Jane Huang , Laura M. Pérez , Andrea Isella , Cornelis P. Dullemond , Nicolás T. Kurtovic , Viviana V. Guzmán , John M. Carpenter , David J. Wilner , Shangjia Zhang , Zhaohuan Zhu , Tilman Birnstiel , Xue-Ning Bai , Myriam Benisty , A. Meredith Hughes , Karin I. Öberg , Luca Ricci

The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array: Overview & status

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

Submillimetre source counts: first results from SCUBA

The SCUBA submillimetre camera has opened up new possibilities for tracing the evolution of active star formation in dusty galaxies to high redshift, with profound implications for our understanding of the star formation history of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Robert G. Mann , The UK Submillimetre Survey Consortium

A machine learning approach for identifying the counterparts of submillimetre galaxies and applications to the GOODS-North field

Identifying the counterparts of submillimetre (submm) galaxies (SMGs) in multiwavelength images is a critical step towards building accurate models of the evolution of strongly star-forming galaxies in the early Universe. However, obtaining…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-09-04 Ruihan Henry Liu , Ryley Hill , Douglas Scott , Omar Almaini , Fangxia An , Chris Gubbels , Li-Ting Hsu , Lihwai Lin , Ian Smail , Stuart Stach

ALMA Observations of SPT-Discovered, Strongly Lensed, Dusty, Star-Forming Galaxies

We present Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) 860 micrometer imaging of four high-redshift (z=2.8-5.7) dusty sources that were detected using the South Pole Telescope (SPT) at 1.4 mm and are not seen in existing radio to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Y. D. Hezaveh , D. P. Marrone , C. D. Fassnacht , J. S. Spilker , J. D. Vieira , J. E. Aguirre , K. A. Aird , M. Aravena , M. L. N. Ashby , M. Bayliss , B. A. Benson , L. E. Bleem , M. Bothwell , M. Brodwin , J. E. Carlstrom , C. L. Chang , S. C. Chapman , T. M. Crawford , A. T. Crites , C. De Breuck , T. de Haan , M. A. Dobbs , E. B. Fomalont , E. M. George , M. D. Gladders , A. H. Gonzalez , T. R. Greve , N. W. Halverson , F. W. High , G. P. Holder , W. L. Holzapfel , S. Hoover , J. D. Hrubes , K. Husband , T. R. Hunter , R. Keisler , A. T. Lee , E. M. Leitch , M. Lueker , D. Luong-Van , M. Malkan , V. McIntyre , J. J. McMahon , J. Mehl , K. M. Menten , S. S. Meyer , L. M. Mocanu , E. J. Murphy , T. Natoli , S. Padin , T. Plagge , C. L. Reichardt , A. Rest , J. Ruel , J. E. Ruhl , K. Sharon , K. K. Schaffer , L. Shaw , E. Shirokoff , B. Stalder , Z. Staniszewski , A. A. Stark , K. Story , K. Vanderlinde , A. Weiß , N. Welikala , R. Williamson

The ALMA Phasing System: A Beamforming Capability for Ultra-High-Resolution Science at (Sub)Millimeter Wavelengths

The Atacama Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) Phasing Project (APP) has developed and deployed the hardware and software necessary to coherently sum the signals of individual ALMA antennas and record the aggregate sum in Very Long…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-12-27 L. D. Matthews , G. B. Crew , S. S. Doeleman , R. Lacasse , A. Saez , W. Alef , K. Akiyama , R. Amestica , J. M. Anderson , D. A. Barkats , A. Baudry , D. Brogiere , R. Escoffier , V. L. Fish , J. Greenberg , M. H. Hecht , R. Hiriart , A. Hirota , M. Honma , P. T. P. Ho , C. M. V. Impellizzeri , M. Inoue , Y. Kohno , B. Lopez , I. Marti-Vidal , H. Messias , Z. Meyer-Zhao , M. Mora-Klein , N. M. Nagar , H. Nishioka , T. Oyama , V. Pankratius , J. Perez , N. Phillips , N. Pradel , H. Rottmann , A. L. Roy , C. A. Ruszczyk , B. Shillue , S. Suzuki , R. Treacy

ATLAS: A High-Cadence All-Sky Survey System

Technology has advanced to the point that it is possible to image the entire sky every night and process the data in real time. The sky is hardly static: many interesting phenomena occur, including variable stationary objects such as stars…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-23 J. L. Tonry , L. Denneau , A. N. Heinze , B. Stalder , K. W. Smith , S. J. Smartt , C. W. Stubbs , H. J. Weiland , A. Rest

Cornell Caltech Atacama Telescope (CCAT): a 25 m aperture telescope above 5000 m altitude

Cornell, California Institute of Technology (Caltech), and Jet Propulsion Lab (JPL) have joined together to study development of a 25 meter sub-millimeter telescope (CCAT) on a high peak in the Atacama region of northern Chile, where the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-03-02 Thomas A. Sebring , Riccardo Giovanelli , Simon Radford , Jonas Zmuidzinas