Updated ALMA Configuration Schedule for Cycle 5
The anticipated configuration schedule for Cycle 5 is available at the following link. The schedule was modified from that posted in the Cycle 5 Proposer’s Guide.
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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.
Special Session SS20 at EWASS – Prague, 26 – 30 June 2017
The European Week of Astronomy and Space Science (EWASS) Special Session No. 20, “Science with ALMA: Discoveries, future priorities and user support”, will be held on June 26 in Prague. Further details on the S220 site.
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.