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Allegro Toolbox

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 […]

Allegro office open remotely

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!

Survey: ALMA User Experience

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 […]

Changes to how to write your ALMA proposal for Cycle 8

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 […]

ALMA-VLBI QA2 Workshop– Leiden Lorentz Center, 24-28 February 2020

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 […]

ALMA Cycle 8 Pre-Announcement

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!

EAS2020 – Special Session Nr. 13: Eight years of ALMA ground-breaking results.

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 […]

Conference:Resolving the Extragalactic Universe with ALMA

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 […]

Requesting calibrated data in Europe

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 […]