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We report the current status of the 1.85-m mm-submm telescope installed at the Nobeyama Radio Observatory (altitude 1400 m) and the future plan. The scientific goal is to reveal the physical/chemical properties of molecular clouds in the…

CCAT will be a large sub-millimeter telescope to be built near the ALMA site in northern Chile. The telescope must support a varied set of instrumentation including large format KID cameras, a large heterodyne array and a KID-based direct…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-03 Reinhold Schaaf , Adam Brazier , Tim Jenness , Thomas Nikola , Martin Shepherd

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

Formation processes of high-mass stars have been long-standing issues in astronomy and astrophysics. This is mainly because of major difficulties in observational studies such as a smaller number of high-mass young stellar objects (YSOs),…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-12-21 Tomoya Hirota

Submillimeter and millimeter wavelengths provide a unique view of the Universe, from the gas and dust that fills and surrounds galaxies to the chromosphere of our own Sun. Current single-dish facilities have presented a tantalising view of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-22 Mark Booth , Pamela Klaassen , Claudia Cicone , Tony Mroczkowski , Martin A. Cordiner , Luca Di Mascolo , Doug Johnstone , Eelco van Kampen , Minju M. Lee , Daizhong Liu , John Orlowski-Scherer , Amélie Saintonge , Matthew W. L. Smith , Alexander Thelen , Sven Wedemeyer , Kazunori Akiyama , Stefano Andreon , Doris Arzoumanian , Tom J. L. C. Bakx , Caroline Bot , Geoffrey Bower , Roman Brajša , Chian-Chou Chen , Elisabete da Cunha , David Eden , Stefano Ettori , Brandt Gaches , Evanthia Hatziminaoglou , Patricia Luppe , Benjamin Magnelli , Jonathan P. Marshall , Francisco Miguel Montenegro-Montes , Michael Niemack , Conor Nixon , Imke de Pater , Yvette Perrott , Sandra I. Raimundo , Elena Redaelli , Anita Richards , Matus Rybak , Nikolina Šarčević , Dmitry Semenov , Silvia Spezzano , Sundar Srinivasan , Thomas Stanke , Paola Andreani , Maria T. Beltrán , Bryan J. Butler , Sebastiano Cantalupo , Miguel Chavez Dagostino , Ana Duarte-Cabral , Bjorn Emonts , Leigh Fletcher , Dale E. Gary , Stanislav Gunar , Alvaro Hacar , Bendix Hagedorn , Tomek Kaminski , Fiona Kirton , Katherine de Kleer , Eduard Kontar , Yi-Jehng Kuan , John Lightfoot , Enrique Lopez-Rodriguez , Andreas Lundgren , Stefanie N. Milam , Atul Mohan , Raphael Moreno , Galina G. Motorina , Arielle Moullet , Kate Pattle , Alberto Pellizzoni , Nicolas Peretto , Joanna Ramasawmy , Claudio Ricci , Andrew J. Rigby , Álvaro Sánchez-Monge , Maryam Saberi , Masumi Shimojo , Aurora Simionescu , Mark Thompson , Alessio Traficante , Cristian Vignali , Stephen M. White

A diverse array of science goals require accurate flux calibration of observations with the Atacama Large Millimeter/Submillimeter array (ALMA), however, this goal remains challenging due to the stochastic time-variability of the ``grid''…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-25 Logan Francis , Doug Johnstone , Gregory Herczeg , Todd R. Hunter , Daniel Harsono

Our aim is to test potential solar prominence plasma diagnostics as obtained with the new solar capability of the Atacama Large Millimeter / submillimeter Array (ALMA). We investigate the thermal and plasma diagnostic potential of ALMA for…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-13 Andrew S Rodger , Nicolas Labrosse

The Arcminute Microkelvin Imager (AMI) is a telescope specifically designed for high sensitivity measurements of low-surface-brightness features at cm-wavelength and has unique, important capabilities. It consists of two interferometer…

The Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) has revolutionised the field of solar millimetre astronomy with its high angular resolution and cadence. However, with a limited field of view (FOV), targeted observations of highly dynamic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-10 Mats Kirkaune , Sven Wedemeyer , Joshiwa van Marrewijk , Tony Mroczkowski , Thomas W. Morris

The first 42 elements of the Allen Telescope Array (ATA-42) are beginning to deliver data at the Hat Creek Radio Observatory in Northern California. Scientists and engineers are actively exploiting all of the flexibility designed into this…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2009-08-11 Joeri van Leeuwen , the ATA team

We present the phase characteristics study of the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) long (up to 3 km) baseline, which is the longest baseline tested so far using ALMA. The data consist of long time-scale (10 - 20 minutes)…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 Satoki Matsushita , Yoshiharu Asaki , Ryohei Kawabe , Ed Fomalont , Denis Barkats , Stuartt Corder

ALMA will become fully operational in a few years and open a new window on primordial galaxies. The mm and submm domain is privileged, since the peak of dust emission between 60 and 100 microns is redshifted there for z= 5-10, and the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 F. Combes

The Submillimeter Array (SMA), a collaborative project of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO) and the Academia Sinica Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics (ASIAA), has begun operation on Mauna Kea in Hawaii. A total of eight…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Paul T. P. Ho , James M. Moran , Kwok Yung Lo

We discuss possibilities and improvements which could be obtained, if a phased array with a large number (N=50-100) of sub-millimeter antennas - like the planned large southern array (the former LSA, now ALMA) is used for…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Thomas P. Krichbaum

The large-scale mass distributions of galaxy-scale strong lenses have long been assumed to be well-described by a singular ellipsoidal power-law density profile with external shear. However, the inflexibility of this model could lead to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-08-14 H. R. Stacey , D. M. Powell , S. Vegetti , J. P. McKean , C. D. Fassnacht , D. Wen , C. M. O'Riordan

Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) will be the world largest mm/submm interferometer, and currently the Early Science is ongoing, together with the commissioning and science verification (CSV). Here we present a study of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 S. Matsushita , K. -I. Morita , D. Barkats , R. E. Hills , E. Fomalont , B. Nikolic

Protostellar outflows provide a means to probe the accretion process of forming stars and their ability to inject energy into their surroundings. However, conclusions based on outflow observations depend upon the degree of accuracy with…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 C. Bradshaw , S. S. R. Offner , H. G. Arce

The formation of stars is usually accompanied by the launching of protostellar outflows. Observations with the Atacama Large Millimetre/sub-millimetre Array (ALMA) will soon revolutionalise our understanding of the morphologies and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-01-07 Thomas Peters , Pamela D. Klaassen , Daniel Seifried , Robi Banerjee , Ralf S. Klessen

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