Allegro’s newest members are postdocs Pascal Keller and Joshiwa van Marrewijk! Pascal Keller joined Allegro in May 2024. He did his PhD titled “Investigating the Epoch of Reionisation with Radio Interferometers” at the Cavendish Astrophysics group of the University of Cambridge. His research focuses on developing and applying non-standard analysis techniques to radio interferometric data. […]
Announcing 8th Netherlands ALMA Science Day, Friday November 29, 10:30-16:30! When: Friday November 29, 10:30-16:30 Where: Leiden Observatory, Gorlaeus Buidling room BE0.08, Einsteinweg 55, Leiden Allegro is pleased to announce the 8th Netherlands ALMA Science Day, which will take place at Leiden Observatory in our new Gorlaeus building on Friday 29 November in room BE.0.08. […]
In July the European ARC network set up a booth at the annual European Astronomical Society (EAS) meeting, where conference participants could pick up a variety of ALMA related stickers, watch an informative video about ALMA and the ARC network, or enjoy a casual chat with one of the ARC representatives. This was a great […]
In June ESO hosted a workshop focused on ALMA’s upcoming Wideband Sensitivity Upgrade (WSU). The workshop, titled “The promises and challenges of the ALMA Wideband Sensitivity Upgrade”, presented the upgrade and showcased the science that will be enabled in the upcoming years. It was also an opportunity to solicit input from the ALMA community that […]
The ALMA Cycle 11 proposal submission statistics set some new records! Although the number of overall submitted proposals seems to be stabilising with 1712 proposals this semester, the number of hours requested on the 12-meter array continues to increase each cycle with over 30000 hours requested this cycle. The region with the highest number of […]
In June the European ALMA regional center organised the first European ALMA school, hosted by the UK regional node in Manchester. The school was a full week of lectures and hands-on activities related to interferometry, and ALMA specifically. Topics ranged from calibration techniques, to the specifics of the products that ALMA delivers, to an overview […]
Allegro will host a training event on 23 October introducing the software packages that are commonly used to work with ALMA data: CASA and CARTA. We will briefly introduce ALMA and Allegro, and start looking at ALMA data using these software packages. The aim of the workshop is to get researchers started using ALMA data, […]
On January 30, 2024, Allegro – in collaboration with JWST colleagues – organized its first Netherlands JWST-Allegro Science Day at Kapteyn Institute, in Groningen. The Joint Science Day was inspired by the recent introduction of “Joint Proposals” at ALMA and other major observatories and was aimed to inspire collaborations while highlighting already existing scientific synergies. […]
Allegro’s newest member is Dr. Megan Lewis who joined in February as a postdoc. Megan received her Bachelor’s degree from Vassar College and her Master’s and PhD degrees from the University of New Mexico in the US. While in New Mexico she was also a Reber predoctoral fellow with the NRAO. She then joined the […]
With the upcoming Cycle 11 call for ALMA proposal, Allegro is providing support to ALMA users with the following plans: For general questions regarding: dual anonymous review process, distributed peer review, accessing the ALMA archive and using the ALMA Observing Tool (OT) to prepare your observing programme, new features in Cycle 11 […]