Remember [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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