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ALMA Data Reduction Training Day: October 23, 2024

On Wednesday, October 23, 2024, we will host an ALMA Data Reduction…
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Science Highlight: Most distant rotating disc galaxy found

A team led by Leiden Observatory researchers has discovered…
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Staff changes

Allegro’s newest members are postdocs Pascal Keller and Joshiwa…
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Science Day: November 29, 2024

Announcing 8th Netherlands ALMA Science Day, Friday November…
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EAS Meeting

In July the European ARC network set up a booth at the annual…
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Updates from the Wideband Sensitivity Upgrade Workshop

In June ESO hosted a workshop focused on ALMA’s upcoming Wideband…
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ALM Cycle 11 Proposal Submission Statistics

The ALMA Cycle 11 proposal submission statistics set some new…
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European ALMA School

In June the European ALMA regional center organised the first…
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CASA Training Event

Allegro will host a training event on 23 October introducing…
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Recap on joint ALMA+JWST Science day in Groningen, January 2024

On January 30, 2024, Allegro - in collaboration with JWST colleagues…
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New Staff & Farewell

Allegro’s newest member is Dr. Megan Lewis who joined in…
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ALMA Cycle 11 Proposal preparation and Important dates

With the upcoming Cycle 11 call for ALMA proposal, Allegro…
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Wideband Sensitivity Upgrade Workshop: 24 – 28 June, 2024 at ESO Garching

In the week of 24 - 28 June, 2024, ESO is hosting a workshop…
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European ALMA School: 10 – 14 June 2024 in Manchester, UK

The European ALMA Regional Centre network is organizing an ALMA…
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Science Highlight: Even Better Together

Using observations of both JWST and ALMA, van Gelder et al. 2024…
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Moving to the New Building

Allegro, along with the rest of the Leiden Observatory offices,…
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ALMA Data Reduction Training Day: November 27, 2023

On Monday, November 27, 2023, we will host an ALMA Data Reduction…
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Netherlands ALMA+JWST Joint Science Day

Allegro is pleased to announce the first ALMA+JWST Joint Science…
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ALMA Cycle 10 Statistics

The ALMA cycle 10 proposal submission statistics again saw some…
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ALMA at 10 years: Past, Present, and Future

The ALMA partnership is organizing a conference to commemorate…
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Lorentz Workshop: Tuning to the high frequency ALMA Universe

In the week of September 4-8, an ALMA-dedicated workshop will…
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IAU I-HOW Radio Astronomy Workshop

A joint Iran and Türkıye radio astronomy workshop is set to…
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New Allegro computing hardware

Allegro has purchased a new set of more powerful computing servers…
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Science Highlight: All quiet at z=4.5

Standard galaxy formation models expect that young galaxies should…
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First fringes for the ALMA Band-2 pre-production receivers

Over the next few years, ALMA will open up the 2.6-4.5 mm wavelength…
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Postdoctoral Support Position at Allegro

Allegro, the Netherlands node of the European ALMA Regional Centre…
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ALMA Proposal Preparation Day 2023

The Allegro ALMA Regional Centre node is organising a proposal…
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Allegro wins the KHMW Outreach Award!

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Hands up for a community assembly!

Sixth European ALMA Regional Centre community assembly

The Sixth European ALMA Regional Centre community assembly meeting…
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Crowdfunding campaign to establish a planetarium in San Pedro de Atacama

Former ALMA director, Thijs de Graauw, and the Fondacion "Planetarios…
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ALMA Cycle 10 proposal preparation workshop

The Allegro ALMA Regional Centre node is organising a proposal…
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Science highlight: Tracing galaxy mass loss via OH absorption at high redshift

Mass loss from high-redshift galaxies is crucial in quenching…
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10 years of ALMA science operations

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Meeting of ALMA Young Astronomers 2023

March 10th marked the successful completion of the second Meeting…
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ALMA Data Reduction Training Day: Dec 9, 2022

Following the 6th Netherlands ALMA Science Day, on Thursday,…
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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.
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ALMAxLeiden - Lettering

ALMAxLeiden- “The Great Telescope Adventure” walking tour launched in Leiden

As part of the European City of Science Leiden 2022 project,…
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Instructions from CASSIS cookbook

Allegro releases CASSIS cookbook

Allegro has developed a simple cookbook that describes how to…
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Allegro launches Friends of Allegro 2023 program

Allegro is looking for applicants for its Friends of Allegro…
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Time requested by Cycle

Cycle 9 statistics

ALMA Cycle 9 received a total of 1769 proposals for a requested…
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Amplitude and phase calibration errors

Self-calibration and improving image fidelity for ALMA and other interferometers

The high quality of ALMA calibrated data sets allows researchers…
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Images from Bouwens et al. and Brunken et al.

ALMA probes atoms and molecules, near and far

ALMA’s supreme capabilities to detect spectral lines across…
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ALMA Proposal Preparation Day 2022

The Allegro ARC Node would like to invite you to attend a proposal…
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I-TRAIN: Writing & Reviewing ALMA proposals

The European ARC Network invites users to an online training…
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Hands up for a community assembly!

Fifth European ALMA Regional Centre community assembly

The Fifth European ALMA Regional Centre community assembly meeting…
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MAYA2022 Group Photo

MAYA – Meeting of ALMA Young Astronomers – First Edition

From March 2 to 4, 2022, the first Meeting of ALMA Young Astronomers…
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ALminer: ALMA archive mining and visualization toolkit

Allegro has developed a tool to ease the scientific exploration…
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ALMAxLeiden - Lettering

ALMAxLeiden – Astronomy-inspired, self-guided city walking tours through Leiden

As part of the European City of Science Leiden 2022 project,…
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ALMA at the European Astronomical Society meeting

The next meeting of the European Astronomical Society will take…
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ALMA Cycle 9 Proposal Preparation Workshop

The Allegro team will host the ALMA Cycle 9 Proposal Preparation…
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Allegro: 2021 look-back and upcoming year

As the pandemic continued throughout 2021, the Allegro staff…
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Night picture of the ALMA array

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…
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5th Netherlands ALMA Science day recap

The 5th Netherlands ALMA Science day was hosted by the Allegro…
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ALMA data reduction training day November 2021 recap

Allegro hosted an online data reduction training day on November…
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12CO gas surround the AGN jet

Science Highlight: An AGN jet pushing around interstellar gas

Using Cycle 6 ALMA observations of the far-infrared bright radio…
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ALMA Data Reduction Training Day: November 30, 2021

Following the 5th Netherlands ALMA Science Day, on Tuesday, November…
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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.
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ALminer: ALMA archive mining and visualization toolkit

It is our pleasure to announce the release of ALminer: ALMA…
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ALMA Proposal Preparation Day 2021

The ALMA Cycle 8 2021 Call for Proposals is now open with a…
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ALMA Data Reduction Training Day: January 26, 2021

Following the 4th Netherlands ALMA Science Day, we are organizing…
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4th Netherlands ALMA Science Day: January 25, 2021

Allegro announces the 4th Netherlands ALMA Science Day, which…
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I-TRAIN: ALMA Training Sessions

The European ARC Network is offering a series of online topical…
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New Allegro Program Manager: Violette Impellizzeri

We are excited to announce that Violette Impellizzeri has joined…
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European ALMA Regional Centre Community Assembly

The European ALMA Regional Centre invites all European ALMA users…
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ALMA starts the process of recovering the telescope array

Due to the global coronavirus pandemic, almost the whole ALMA…
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Status update for the ALMA telescope

Dear colleagues, The COVID-19 pandemic still continues to…
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Status update for ALMA Cycles 7 & 8

The ALMA Director, with support from all Executives and the ALMA…
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Suspension of ALMA Cycle 8 Call for Proposals

The COVID-19 crisis has continued to affect the global community,…
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Extension of Proprietary Times

Due to the COVID-19 crisis and its impact on the global astronomical…
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Allegro Toolbox

Archive ALMA archive Japanese archive of FITS images Large…
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ALMA Proposal Preparation Day (online material)

IMPORTANT UPDATE: The ALMA Director, along with the regional…
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Allegro office open remotely

Allegro is complying with Leiden Observatory guidelines and all…
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Survey: ALMA User Experience

The End-to-end User Experience Working Group are a team of staff…
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Changes to how to write your ALMA proposal for Cycle 8

For Cycle 8, ALMA is adopting dual-anonymous review. This means…
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ALMA-VLBI QA2 Workshop– Leiden Lorentz Center, 24-28 February 2020

Allegro is hosting a QA2 training workshop for phased-ALMA…
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ALMA Cycle 8 Pre-Announcement

Dear ALMA community! The Joint ALMA Observatory (JAO) has…
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EAS2020 – Special Session Nr. 13: Eight years of ALMA ground-breaking results.

We would like to bring to your attention the special session…
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Conference:Resolving the Extragalactic Universe with ALMA

There is an open call for applications to the conference “Resolving…
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Requesting calibrated data in Europe

from 1 October 2019 onwards By popular demand, the EU ARC…
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Netherlands ALMA Science Day — 22 November 2019.

Allegro is organizing an ALMA Science Day on Friday November…
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ACA Supplemental Call for Proposals

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

The Cycle 7 Supplemental Call for Proposals is anticipated to…
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Improving Image Fidelity on Astronomical Data: Radio Interferometer and Single-Dish Data Combination

The Lorentz Center will be hosting the meeting: Improving Image…
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Cycle 7 Call for Proposals

The ALMA Director, on behalf of the Joint ALMA Observatory (JAO)…
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Proposal Preparation Day – March 28th, 2019

Prior to the deadline for the ALMA Cycle 7 proposal submission…
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The black hole at the heart of our Galaxy

Including the powerful ALMA into an array of telescopes for the…
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Calibrated MS

From now on, with all ALMA data delivery that you receive, you…
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Announcement of 3mm VLBI in Cycle 7

Phased ALMA will participate in some GMVA observations during ALMA Cycle 7
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ALMA Cycle 7 Pre-annoucement

The Joint ALMA Observatory (JAO) will start the next cycle of observations (Cycle 7) in October 2019
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Issues affecting CASA mosaic imaging

The ALMA Observatory circulated a report of issues affecting mosaic images produced with CASA in ALMA Cycles 1-5.
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Data Reduction Training Day — Nov 2, 2018

Allegro is hosting an ALMA Data Reduction Training Day.
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Netherlands ALMA Science Day — Nov 1, 2018

Allegro is organizing the second Netherlands ALMA Science Day on Thursday November 1, 2018, at Leiden Observatory.
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ALMA Cycle 6 Proposal Review: Detailed Report

A detailed report on the outcome of the ALMA Cycle 6 Proposal Review Process is now available.
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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).
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Cycle 6 High Priority Projects

The list of ALMA Cycle 6 high priority projects is available online.
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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.
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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.
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Cycle 6 Proposal Submission Statistics

A detailed report of the Cycle 6 Proposal Submission Statistics is now available.
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The future of ALMA support at the 42nd ESO Users Committee

The ESO Users Committee (UC) annual meeting will take in Garching…
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ALMA Cycle 6 Call for Proposals in now open

The ALMA Director, on behalf of the Joint ALMA Observatory (JAO)…
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