[SEMINARI] News of ALMA from an insider, Itziar de Gregorio-Monsalvo

[Enric Marco]

Title: News of ALMA from an insider

by: Itziar de Gregorio-Monsalvo

from: ESO-ALMA

where: Seminari del departament d'Astronomia i Astrofísica

date: Dimarts 05 novembre 2013, 12:00 h.

Resum

The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) is an 
international partnership of Europe, North America ,and East Asia in 
cooperation with the Republic of Chile. ALMA is a telescope of 
revolutionary design. It will be composed initially of 66 high precision 
antennas located on the Chajnantor plateau, 5000 meters altitude in 
northern Chile. ALMA will observe at wavelengths in the range 3 mm to 
400 μm (84 to 720 GHz) and will be 10-100 times more sensitive and will 
have 10-100 times better angular resolution than current millimeter 
interferometers. The design of ALMA is driven by three key science 
goals: The ability to detect spectral line emission from CO or [CII] in 
a normal galaxy like the Milky Way at a redshift of z=3 in less than 24 
hours, the ability to image the gas kinematics in protostars and in 
protoplanetary disks around young Sun-like stars in the nearest 
molecular clouds (150 pc), and the ability to provide precise high 
dynamic range images at an angular resolution of 0.1 arcsec. ALMA Early 
Science operations started on September 2011 and yielded more than 60 
publications in refereed journals so far. In this talk, I will present 
the ALMA history, its current status, and I will give a general overview 
on the capabilities offered in the next Cycle 2 call for proposal.

http://celeste.uv.es/daa/seminari.php.UTF8?id=1076

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Departament d'Astronomia i Astrofísica
Facultat de Física
Universitat de València
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Phone: (34)-96-354-3069
Fax:(34)-96-354-3084
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