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The Atacama Large Millimeter-Submillimeter Array (ALMA) has opened a new window for studying the Sun via high-resolution high-sensitivity imaging at millimeter wavelengths. In this contribution I review the capabilities of the instrument…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-13 Maria Loukitcheva

The Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) consists of 64 antennas of 12m diameter that will initially observe in 4 frequency bands between 84 and 720 GHz with spatial resolutions down to 0.01" and velocity resolutions as fine as 0.05 km/s.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Carlos De Breuck

The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) offers new diagnostic capabilities for studying the Sun, providing complementary insights through high spatial and temporal resolution at millimeter wavelengths. ALMA acts as a linear…

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

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…

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

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

The Atacama Large Millimetre/submillimetre Array (ALMA) is one of the largest and most complicated observatories ever built. Constructing and operating an observatory at high altitude (5000m) in a cost effective and safe manner, with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Paola Andreani , Martin Zwaan

Science archives are cornerstones of modern astronomical facilities. In this paper we describe the version 1.0 milestone of the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array Science Archive. This version features a comprehensive query…

The Atacama Millimeter/Submillimeter Array (ALMA) remains unparalleled in sensitivity at radio frequencies above 35 GHz. In this paper, we explore ALMA's potential for narrowband technosignature detection, considering factors such as the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-02 Louisa A Mason , Michael A Garrett , Kelvin Wandia , Andrew P V Siemion

The Atacama Large Millimeter-submillimeter Array (ALMA) radio telescope has commenced science observations of the Sun starting in late 2016. Since the Sun is much larger than the field of view of individual ALMA dishes, the ALMA…

The Atacama Large Millimeter-submillimeter Array (ALMA), sited on the high desert plains of Chajnantor in Chile, has opened a new window onto solar physics in 2016 by providing continuum observations at millimeter and sub-millimeter…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-07 Timothy Bastian , Masumi Shimojo , Miroslav Barta , Stephen White , Kazumasa Iwai

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 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…

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 importance of the Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) to the study of high-redshift dusty gas-rich galaxies is described. ALMA will have dramatically greater sensitivity and angular resolution than existing millimetre(mm) and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Andrew W. Blain

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

The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array offers an unprecedented view of our Sun at sub-/millimeter wavelengths. The high spatial, temporal, and spectral resolution facilitates the measurement of gas temperatures and magnetic fields…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-02-18 Sven Wedemeyer , Asbjorn Parmer

Atacama Large Millimeter/Submillimeter Array (ALMA) is promising to be a powerful tool for precision astrometry of the area around Sagittarius A$^\ast$ (Sgr A$^\ast$) because it has the high angular resolution, high sensitivity, and wide…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-06-08 Masato Tsuboi , Takahiro Tsutsumi , Atsushi Miyazaki , Ryosuke Miyawaki , Makoto Miyoshi

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…