


ALMA Data Reduction Training Day: Dec 9, 2022
Following the 6th Netherlands ALMA Science Day, on Thursday,…

6th Netherlands ALMA Science Day: Dec. 8, 2022
Allegro is organizing the 6th Netherlands ALMA Science Day on Thursday December 8, 2022, at Leiden Observatory.

ALMAxLeiden- “The Great Telescope Adventure” walking tour launched in Leiden
As part of the European City of Science Leiden 2022 project,…

Allegro releases CASSIS cookbook
Allegro has developed a simple cookbook that describes how to…

Allegro launches Friends of Allegro 2023 program
Allegro is looking for applicants for its Friends of Allegro…

Cycle 9 statistics
ALMA Cycle 9 received a total of 1769 proposals for a requested…

Self-calibration and improving image fidelity for ALMA and other interferometers
The high quality of ALMA calibrated data sets allows researchers…

ALMA probes atoms and molecules, near and far
ALMA’s supreme capabilities to detect spectral lines across…

ALMA Proposal Preparation Day 2022
The Allegro ARC Node would like to invite you to attend a proposal…

I-TRAIN: Writing & Reviewing ALMA proposals
The European ARC Network invites users to an online training…

Fifth European ALMA Regional Centre community assembly
The Fifth European ALMA Regional Centre community assembly meeting…

MAYA - Meeting of ALMA Young Astronomers - First Edition
From March 2 to 4, 2022, the first Meeting of ALMA Young Astronomers…

ALminer: ALMA archive mining and visualization toolkit
Allegro has developed a tool to ease the scientific exploration…

ALMAxLeiden - Astronomy-inspired, self-guided city walking tours through Leiden
As part of the European City of Science Leiden 2022 project,…

ALMA at the European Astronomical Society meeting
The next meeting of the European Astronomical Society will take…

ALMA Cycle 9 Proposal Preparation Workshop
The Allegro team will host the ALMA Cycle 9 Proposal Preparation…

Allegro: 2021 look-back and upcoming year
As the pandemic continued throughout 2021, the Allegro staff…

The end of ALMA Cycle 7 and start of Cycle 8 2021 science observations
After a one-year break due to the Covid-19 pandemic, ALMA Cycle…

5th Netherlands ALMA Science day recap
The 5th Netherlands ALMA Science day was hosted by the Allegro…

ALMA data reduction training day November 2021 recap
Allegro hosted an online data reduction training day on November…

Science Highlight: An AGN jet pushing around interstellar gas
Using Cycle 6 ALMA observations of the far-infrared bright radio…

ALMA Data Reduction Training Day: November 30, 2021
Following the 5th Netherlands ALMA Science Day, on Tuesday, November…

5th Netherlands ALMA Science Day: Nov 29, 2021
Allegro is organizing the 5th Netherlands ALMA Science Day on Monday November 29, 2021, at Leiden Observatory.

ALminer: ALMA archive mining and visualization toolkit
It is our pleasure to announce the release of ALminer: ALMA…

ALMA Proposal Preparation Day 2021
The ALMA Cycle 8 2021 Call for Proposals is now open with a…

ALMA Data Reduction Training Day: January 26, 2021
Following the 4th Netherlands ALMA Science Day, we are organizing…

4th Netherlands ALMA Science Day: January 25, 2021
Allegro announces the 4th Netherlands ALMA Science Day, which…

I-TRAIN: ALMA Training Sessions
The European ARC Network is offering a series of online topical…

New Allegro Program Manager: Violette Impellizzeri
We are excited to announce that Violette Impellizzeri has joined…

European ALMA Regional Centre Community Assembly
The European ALMA Regional Centre invites all European ALMA users…

ALMA starts the process of recovering the telescope array
Due to the global coronavirus pandemic, almost the whole ALMA…

Status update for the ALMA telescope
Dear colleagues,
The COVID-19 pandemic still continues to…

Status update for ALMA Cycles 7 & 8
The ALMA Director, with support from all Executives and the ALMA…

Suspension of ALMA Cycle 8 Call for Proposals
The COVID-19 crisis has continued to affect the global community,…

Extension of Proprietary Times
Due to the COVID-19 crisis and its impact on the global astronomical…

Allegro Toolbox
Archive
ALMA archive
Japanese archive of FITS images
Large…

ALMA Proposal Preparation Day (online material)
IMPORTANT UPDATE: The ALMA Director, along with the regional…

Allegro office open remotely
Allegro is complying with Leiden Observatory guidelines and all…

Survey: ALMA User Experience
The End-to-end User Experience Working Group are a team of staff…

Changes to how to write your ALMA proposal for Cycle 8
For Cycle 8, ALMA is adopting dual-anonymous review. This means…

ALMA-VLBI QA2 Workshop-- Leiden Lorentz Center, 24-28 February 2020
Allegro is hosting a QA2 training workshop for phased-ALMA…

ALMA Cycle 8 Pre-Announcement
Dear ALMA community!
The Joint ALMA Observatory (JAO) has…

EAS2020 - Special Session Nr. 13: Eight years of ALMA ground-breaking results.
We would like to bring to your attention the special session…

Conference:Resolving the Extragalactic Universe with ALMA
There is an open call for applications to the conference “Resolving…

Requesting calibrated data in Europe
from 1 October 2019 onwards
By popular demand, the EU ARC…

Netherlands ALMA Science Day -- 22 November 2019.
Allegro is organizing an ALMA Science Day on Friday November…

ACA Supplemental Call for Proposals
The Joint ALMA Observatory (JAO) is now accepting observing proposals…

ACA Supplemental Call for Proposals Pre-announcement
The Cycle 7 Supplemental Call for Proposals is anticipated to…

Improving Image Fidelity on Astronomical Data: Radio Interferometer and Single-Dish Data Combination
The Lorentz Center will be hosting the meeting:
Improving Image…

Cycle 7 Call for Proposals
The ALMA Director, on behalf of the Joint ALMA Observatory (JAO)…

Proposal Preparation Day - March 28th, 2019
Prior to the deadline for the ALMA Cycle 7 proposal submission…

The black hole at the heart of our Galaxy
Including the powerful ALMA into an array of telescopes for the…

Calibrated MS
From now on, with all ALMA data delivery that you receive, you…

Announcement of 3mm VLBI in Cycle 7
Phased ALMA will participate in some GMVA observations during ALMA Cycle 7

ALMA Cycle 7 Pre-annoucement
The Joint ALMA Observatory (JAO) will start the next cycle of observations (Cycle 7) in October 2019

Issues affecting CASA mosaic imaging
The ALMA Observatory circulated a report of issues affecting mosaic images produced with CASA in ALMA Cycles 1-5.

Data Reduction Training Day -- Nov 2, 2018
Allegro is hosting an ALMA Data Reduction Training Day.

Netherlands ALMA Science Day -- Nov 1, 2018
Allegro is organizing the second Netherlands ALMA Science Day on Thursday November 1, 2018, at Leiden Observatory.

ALMA Cycle 6 Proposal Review: Detailed Report
A detailed report on the outcome of the ALMA Cycle 6 Proposal Review Process is now available.

New ACA observatory filler programs for Cycle 5
The ALMA Observatory announces four filler programs that have been approved on the Atacama Compact Array (ACA).

Cycle 6 High Priority Projects
The list of ALMA Cycle 6 high priority projects is available online.

Nov 1-2, 2018: Netherlands ALMA Science Day & ALMA Data Reduction Training Day -- Announcement
Allegro is organizing the second Netherlands Science Day and ALMA Data Reduction Training in November.

ALMA development roadmap for the next decade
The ALMA Board approved the ALMA Development Roadmap for the next decade. A summary of the development priorities for the Observatory out to 2030 is available online.

Cycle 6 Proposal Submission Statistics
A detailed report of the Cycle 6 Proposal Submission Statistics is now available.

The future of ALMA support at the 42nd ESO Users Committee
The ESO Users Committee (UC) annual meeting will take in Garching…

ALMA Cycle 6 Call for Proposals in now open
The ALMA Director, on behalf of the Joint ALMA Observatory (JAO)…

Proposal Preparation Day - April 9th, 2018
Prior to the deadline for the ALMA Cycle 6 proposal submission, Allegro will host a Proposal Preparation Day.

Sera Markoff and Remo Tilanus at Astronomy on Tap!
In the first event of the year of Astronomy on Tap in Leiden,…

New Science Verification data available: High-resolution observations of HL Tau in Band 4
New Science Verification data are now listed on the Science Verification data page.

Powerful New Hardware Approved for ALMA
The development of a new spectrometer for the Morita Array has been approved by the ALMA Board.

ALMA Cycle 6 Pre-announcement
The Joint ALMA Observatory (JAO) will start the next cycle of observing (Cycle 6) in October 2018.

Contributions from Allegro to the EU ARC Newsletter
Contributions from Allegro team are highlighted in the new edition of the European ARC Newsletter.

Me@Allegro at the Leiden Science Run
Your local ARC node members will run in the Leiden Science Run…

WVR scaling module is now available
Software package to optimise the application of the WVR solutions for ALMA Observations from Maud et al. 2017 (A&A, 605, 121)

Allegro hosted the EU ARC All-hands meeting
During the last week of September the staff working in all the European ARC nodes had their yearly meeting in Den Dolder (NL).


ALMA Cycle 5 Proposal Review: Detailed Report
A detailed report on the outcome of the ALMA Cycle 5 Proposal Review Process is now available. The report details the proposal review process, proposal statistics and regional distributions, as well as the proposal distribution across science categories and receiver bands.
The report can be downloaded here.

Status of ALMA Observations and Relocation to Long Baselines
The ALMA Observatory has experienced back to back severe winter storms, making it difficult to recover the 12-m array for PI observations. This has had an even more detrimental impact on the relocation to the long baselines.

Cycle 5 Phase 2 deadline
The Cycle 5 Phase 2 deadline by which approved projects need to be submitted to the archive is anticipated to be Sept 7th 2017. Find this announcement in the ALMA Science Portal.

Supplemental Call for Proposals to use the 7-m Array in Cycle 4
The ALMA Director announces that the Joint ALMA Observatory (JAO) will accept observing proposals that request to use the 7-m Array in the remainder of Cycle 4, which ends on September 30, 2017. This proposal call enables the community to propose projects that will fill in undersubscribed regions of the observing queue for the 7-m Array.

ALMA Cycle 5 Call for Proposals in now open
The ALMA Director, on behalf of the Joint ALMA Observatory (JAO) and the partner organizations in East Asia, Europe, and North America, is pleased to announce the ALMA Cycle 5 Call for Proposals (CfP) for scientific observations to be scheduled from October 2017 to September 2018.


Netherlands ALMA Community Day - March 2, 2017
Allegro is organizing a science day on Thursday March 2, 2017, at Leiden Observatory. The full program and details are available.

ALMA Data Reduction with CASA Training Day - March 3, 2017
For those interested, ALMA data reduction training with CASA will be offered on Friday March 3. Full program and details are available.

Additional information for ALMA Cycle 5 proposals
Additional information for ALMA Cycle 5 proposals has been published.

ALMA Cycle 5 Pre-announcement
The Joint ALMA Observatory (JAO) will start the next cycle of…

ALMA Cycle 1 & 2 Summary Report
A detailed report on ALMA Cycles 1 & 2 is now available. The…

ALMA Band 5 Science Verification data release
A new installment of ALMA Science Verification data is available.…

March 2-3, 2017: Netherlands ALMA Community Day & ALMA Data Reduction Training Day -- Announcement
Allegro is organizing a science day on Thursday March 2, 2017, at Leiden Observatory. For those interested, ALMA data reduction training with CASA will be offered on Friday March 3.

ALMA & Allegro phase metrics workshop - Online presentations and presentation review
Please, find the presentations in the following zip file:
…

Black Hole Fed by Cold Intergalactic Deluge
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.

Registration open for "Half a Decade of ALMA: Cosmic Dawns Transformed"
Registration is now OPEN for the "Half a
Decade of ALMA: Cosmic Dawns Transformed" (http://go.nrao.edu/ALMA5years)
conference which will be held 20 - 23 September 2016 at the Renaissance
Indian Wells Resort in Indian Wells, California, USA (near Palm Springs).

Postdoctoral Support Position at the ALMA ARC node at Leiden Observatory
Allegro, the Netherlands node of the European ALMA Regional Centre (ARC) at Leiden Observatory, invites applications for a postdoctoral support position. As part of the European ARC network, Allegro supports ALMA users and ALMA operations and development.

ALMA Phase Correction Workshop
A workshop focused on how to improve the ALMA phase corrections is jointly organized by the ALMA observatory and Allegro. It will be held at Leiden Observatory from May 30 - Jun 3. Participation is by invitation only.

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

A Change in the ALMA Configuration Near the End of Cycle 3
The Joint ALMA Observatory (JAO) has examined the distribution of remaining QA2 non-Pass executions for the 5km array (C36-7) and has determined that given the distribution, the observatory will not revisit the 5km array near the end of the Cycle 3 observing season.

ALMA Cycle 4 Call for Proposals is now open
The ALMA Director, on behalf of the Joint ALMA Observatory (JAO) and the partner organizations in East Asia, Europe, and North America, is pleased to announce the ALMA Cycle 4 Call for Proposals (CfP) for scientific observations to be scheduled from October 2016 to September 2017.
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