The COVID-19 crisis has continued to affect the global community, including ALMA users and staff. ALMA operations remain suspended, as announced on March 20. Under these difficult and unprecedented circumstances, the ALMA Director, with support from all Executives, has decided to suspend the submission of Cycle 8 proposals until further notice. The Cycle 8 proposal […]
Due to the COVID-19 crisis and its impact on the global astronomical community, the ALMA Director has made the following decision regarding proprietary times of ALMA data sets. The proprietary period of all MOUSs that have been delivered to principle investigators (PIs), but have not become public by 19 March 2020, will be extended by […]
Archive ALMA archive Japanese archive of FITS images Large Programs General information and list of accepted large programs Data Delegation ALMA data can be delegated during the proprietary period by PIs to anyone with an ALMA account. Instructions can be found here. Simulate ALMA Observations ALMA simulator CASA guide (version 5.1+ needed) ALMA Observation Support […]
IMPORTANT UPDATE: The ALMA Director, along with the regional partners, have decided to delay the proposal deadline for the ALMA Cycle 8 Call for Proposals to NO EARLIER than 15 UT on 19 May, 2020. Therefore, Allegro has decided to postpone the Proposal Preparation Workshop of March 26 to a later date, approximately 3 weeks […]
Allegro is complying with Leiden Observatory guidelines and all staff is now working remotely. The Allegro team is available for user support, which can be requested by e-mail and will be conducted via a video link or other remote means. Don’t hesitate to contact us if you have questions or need support!
The End-to-end User Experience Working Group are a team of staff from the different ARC nodes who are seeking feedback on how to improve the ALMA user experience, from the Call from Proposals stage, through working with ALMA data (be it a project you proposed or Archival data). The ultimate goal is to identify and […]
For Cycle 8, ALMA is adopting dual-anonymous review. This means that the proposers do not know who the reviewers are, and the reviewers don’t know who is on the proposing team. This has important consequences on how you write your proposal! ALMA has put together a document with guidelines. Consequently, any text that can identify […]
Dear ALMA community! The Joint ALMA Observatory (JAO) has released the cycle 8 pre-announcement. Please find all the relevant information in this link Happy proposal planning!
We would like to bring to your attention the special session ‘Eight years of ALMA ground-breaking results: A joint venture between the ALMA user community and the ALMA Regional Centres‘ that is organised as part of the yearly meeting of the European Astronomical Society. The conference will take place in Leiden, The Netherlands, on June […]