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The Future of mm/submm Interferometry: The ALMA Project

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 May 2016

Stéphane Guilloteau
Stéphane Guilloteau*
Affiliation:
ALMA European Project Scientist Institut de Radio Astronomie Millimétrique, 300 rue de la piscine F-38406 Saint-Martin-d'Hères, France European Southern Observatory, Karl Schwarzschild Str-2, Garching, Germany

Abstract

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ALMA, the Atacama Large Millimeter / Sub-millimeter Array will be the first instrument allowing very high angular resolution (down to 0.01″) with sufficient sensitivity to image thermal emission from dust and molecules in proto-planetary disks at wavelengths where these disks are optically thin. Its unsurpassed characteristics will make it a premier instrument to study the formation of binary and multiple systems. I present here the projected characteristics of ALMA, in particular the expected sensitivities and frequency coverage, and illustrates some possible applications relevant to the study of binary star formation.

Type
XIV. Frontiers of Observations
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 200: The Formation of Binary Stars , 2001 , pp. 547 - 554
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 2001 

References

References on ALMA can be found in the proceedings of “Science with ALMA”, edited by Wootten, A., ASP Conference series, 2000. The project description and up-to-date information are available on the WEB.Google Scholar
at the ESO Web site, http://eso.org/projects/alma orGoogle Scholar
at the NRAO Web site, http://www.alma.nrao.edu.Google Scholar
The ALMA Science Case, prepared for the European proposal to ESO, can be found at http://iram.fr/guillote/.Google Scholar