Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array in Operation

The Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA)

The Atacama Large Millimeter Array, or ALMA, is an international telescope project which will be built over the coming decade in Northern Chile. With over 7000 m of collecting area comprised of 64 12m antennas arrayed over baselines up to 14 km in extent, ALMA will provide images of unprecedented clarity and detail. One revolutionary feature of ALMA will be its ability to combine interferometri...

The Inauguration of the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array

The Atacama Large Millimeter / Submillimeter Array 1 Development Program

1The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), an international astronomy facility, is a partnership of East Asia, Europe and North America in cooperation with the Republic of Chile. ALMA is funded in East Asia by the National Institutes of Natural Sciences (NINS) of Japan in cooperation with the Academia Sinica (AS) in Taiwan. In Europe ALMA is funded by the European Southern Observ...

The Atacama Compact Array System

Exploring the Clustered Array Concept for the Atacama Array