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ALMA Early Science Preparation Tutorial

Kartik ShethNAASC CSV LiaisonALMA/NRAO

Plan for this brief tutorial• The Role of North American ALMA Science Center (5 mins)• Brief update on ALMA & ES capabilities (5 mins)• Timeline for users / Important Dates / Helpdesk (5 mins)• Walk through demo of the Observing Tool (25 mins)• Introduction to simdata (20 mins)• Q &A (15 minutes)

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The North American ALMA Science Center• Main resource for ALMA users• http://science.nrao.edu/alma start here

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The North American ALMA Science Center

Services include:• Supporting community preparation of ALMA proposals• Providing post-observation user support• Maintaining ALMA websites, proposal & data reduction guides

• Organizing ALMA meetings / workshops• Visiting institutions to give presentations on ALMA• Supporting Commissioning and Science Verification efforts

ALMA currently

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ALMA later this year

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Early Science Capabilities

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See Primer for more detailed information on ALMA (ES vs. Full, ES science examples, basics of interferometry

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ALMA Early Science• Early Science proposals with LIMITED capability (compared to full ALMA)

• See Pre-announcement released yesterday!

• 16 x 12m antennas• Bands 3, 6, 7 and 9 available (see mousepad/primer for reference)• Limited correlator setups available (see primer)• 250m baselines (~ 0.4” at 0.5mm, 2.4” at 3mm)

• NOTE: 16 ants = limited UV coverage so careful with imaging projects• Large surveys, large maps may be difficult in ES• See ES examples in the primer

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Your Path for using ALMA for ES- I

1. Generating Science Ideas / Getting to Know ALMA NRAO website, mousepad, primer AAS special sessions, NAASC Science workshops, community

events days, tutorials2. Writing a proposal

ALMA Observing Tool (walk-through here) Calculator, Splatalogue

Simdata (walk-through here) Helpdesk

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Helpdesk

Linked from: http://science.nrao.edu/alma/

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Your Path for using ALMA for ES - IIFuture NAASC-sponsored tutorials will cover steps 3 & 4

3. Getting the data (and re-processing it) ALMA Observing tool (Phase II) Project tracker ALMA Science Archive CASA & Pipeline Visiting the NAASC

4. Publicizing Results Page charges (standard NRAO policy) NRAO EPO Office