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 […]
Allegro is hosting a QA2 training workshop for phased-ALMA data acquired during VLBI observations, which will be held in Leiden (the Netherlands), on February 24-28 2020.VLBI is an observing mode offered since Cycle 4, and the first observations were conducted in Apr 2017. The QA2 process for VLBI projects is significantly more complex than the […]
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 […]
There is an open call for applications to the conference “Resolving the Extragalactic Universe with ALMA” to be held November 9-13, 2020, focused on the latest scientific results on the high-redshift universe with the ALMA telescope. The primary scientific themes are: • High-z galaxies and quasars, the epoch of reionization. • High-spatial resolution studies: Galaxy […]
from 1 October 2019 onwards By popular demand, the EU ARC has implemented a service which permits ALMA users to request the calibrated data for a given dataset (Member Obs Unit Set, MOUS) to be made available for download. The service is open both for ALMA PIs or Delegees with proprietary ALMA data and for […]
Allegro is organizing an ALMA Science Day on Friday November 22, 2019, at Leiden Observatory. Allegro organizes this meeting for the Netherlands ALMA community to share their exciting new science, hear the latest news from the telescope, and discuss user experiences and ALMA-related topics. Program Participants Directions Directions to Leiden Observatory Directions inside the building […]
The Joint ALMA Observatory (JAO) is now accepting observing proposals for Cycle 7 that request to use the Atacama Compact Array (ACA) in stand-alone mode. Instructions on how to submit proposals can be found on the Cycle 7 Supplemental Call web page. Users of any nationality or affiliation are invited to submit proposals before the […]
The Cycle 7 Supplemental Call for Proposals is anticipated to open at 15:00 UT on September 3 with a proposal deadline of 15:00 UT on October 1. ALMA expects to allocate approximately 2500 h of observing time on the ACA in the Supplemental Call. Preliminary information is currently available here. Complete details of the Supplemental […]