Additional information for ALMA Cycle 5 proposals

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Additional information for ALMA Cycle 5 proposals has been published today.
The announcement provides further information on:

1. Update on the availability of Band 5,
2. Reclassification of 16 km baselines as a standard mode,
3. Cycle 5 configuration schedule,
4. Information for preparing Large Programs.

You can read the full announcement at the following link:

https://almascience.eso.org/news/additional-information-for-cycle-5-proposals-1

Complete details will be provided in the Call for Proposals, which will be
released on the ALMA Science Portal on **March 21, 2017**.

To read this and other ALMA News visit this link to the Science portal:
ALMA News.

ALMA Cycle 5 Pre-announcement

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The Joint ALMA Observatory (JAO) will start the next cycle of observing (Cycle 5) in October 2017. A Call for Proposals with detailed information on Cycle 5 will be issued in March 2017, with a deadline for proposal submission in April 2017. This pre-announcement highlights aspects of the Cycle 5 proposal call that are needed to plan proposals.

Details about the Cycle 5 Pre-announcenement can be found in the ALMA Science Portal.

ALMA Cycle 1 & 2 Summary Report

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A detailed report on ALMA Cycles 1 & 2 is now available. The report details observing and completion statistics, data reduction and delivery, and publication statistics.

The document is available as PDF and can be downloaded via the ALMA Science Portal.

ALMA Band 5 Science Verification data release

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A new installment of ALMA Science Verification data is available. This release contains data on the following Science Verification targets:
• Arp 220 spectral line observations in Band 5 (H2O, CS, HNC) with the 12-m Array
• SgrB2(N) spectral scan observations across most of the Band 5 tuning range with an hybrid 12m-7m array
• VY CMa spectral line polarization observations of SiO and water lines in Band 5 with the 12m array

Read more details in this link.

Image: The image shows one of the Band 5 receiver cartridges built for the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) waiting to be integrated into the Front End at the OSF technical laboratories. Credit: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO), N. Tabilo

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March 2-3, 2017: Netherlands ALMA Community Day & ALMA Data Reduction Training Day — Announcement

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Allegro, the European ALMA Regional Center node in the Netherlands, is organizing a science day on Thursday March 2, 2017, at Leiden Observatory. This event will feature presentations on exciting recent results from ALMA by astronomers from the Allegro user community, the latest news from ALMA, and a plenary discussion on expectations and wishes for user support and any other ALMA-related topics. We will conclude the day with the Leiden Observatory General Astrophysics Colloquium that for the occasion of this workshop will have a special ALMA theme, and will be delivered by Dr. Mario Tafalla (OAN Madrid) on ‘ALMA observations of protostellar jets. Trying to understand the mechanism of outflow acceleration’.

You can register for the Netherlands Allegro ALMA Community Day 2017 following this link.

If you are interested in given a contributed talk (~20 min) on recent results from ALMA or any related topic, please indicate this on the registration page.

For those interested, ALMA data reduction training with CASA will be offered on Friday March 3 at Allegro. You can indicate your interest on the event registration page linked above.

Black Hole Fed by Cold Intergalactic Deluge

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An international team of astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) has witnessed a cosmic weather event that has never been seen before — a cluster of towering intergalactic gas clouds raining in on the supermassive black hole at the centre of a huge galaxy one billion light-years from Earth. The results will appear in the journal Nature on 9 June 2016.

Read more in this ESO press release.

Registration open for “Half a Decade of ALMA: Cosmic Dawns Transformed”

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Registration is now OPEN for the “Half a Decade of ALMA: Cosmic Dawns Transformed” conference which will be held 20 – 23 September 2016 at the Renaissance Indian Wells Resort in Indian Wells, California, USA (near Palm Springs).

Please submit an abstract featuring your science soon, as the deadline for abstracts to be considered for oral presentation will be 24 June, 2016.

For more details, please visit the link to the conference website:
http://go.nrao.edu/ALMA5years

New OT Version, the Project Tracker, and Clarification of Full Polarization Capabilities

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Information related to the new version of the ALMA Observing Tool (OT) for preparing Cycle-4 proposals, the Project Tracker as well as a clarification on full polarization capabilities are now available in
this link to the ALMA General News.

Clarification of Large Program Policy

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Several clarifications related to the Large Program Policy for Cycle 4 are now available in
this link to the ALMA General News.

Notification of problem affecting certain ALMA data that used mosaic and offset pointing observing modes

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The Joint ALMA Observatory (JAO) has recently identified a problem affecting selected programs from Cycles 1 to 3 where positional offsets or mosaics were used to set up Scheduling Blocks in the ALMA Observing Tool.

Read all the details in this link to the ALMA General News.