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2012-04-17 Third installment of Science Verification data of ALMA:

The third installment of Science Verification data is now available. Taiwanese users can ask the ARC to help to get these data. They are all locally available at ASIAA.

2012-04-12 Press-release:

Press Release of the Cycle 0 result: ALMA Reveals Workings of Nearby Planetary System.

2012-04-04 Pre-announcement for Cycle 1:

(JAO) expects to start the next cycle of Early Science observations (Cycle 1) in January 2013.

2012-02-15 ALMA First Science Workshop:

An international conference focusing on the first science results from ALMA will be held in Chile in December 12-15 2012.

2012-02-03 Status Report:

The Cycle 0 observing period will be extended until the end of 2012. The proposal deadline of Cycle 1 is expected to be in July 2012.

2012-02-03 News Release:

On January 4, the ALMA East Asia Front-End Integration Center (EA-FEIC) completed the last Atacama Compact Array (ACA) receiver system.

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Project Description

The Atacama Large Millimeter/ submillimeter Array (ALMA) will be the major new facility for observations in the millimeter/submillimeter regime. It will enable transformational research into the physics of the cold Universe, probe the first stars and galaxies, and directly image the formation of planets.