22 December 2016
Faint signals of water in the nearby Universe can now be detected by ALMA
...a boost, as the Atacama Large Millimetre/Submillimetre Array (ALMA) has begun observing in a new range of the electromagnetic ... the future, the high sensitivity and angular resolution of the full ALMA array will allow us to make detailed studies of water in a...
06 May 2016
Accurate mass of supermassive black hole calculated by astronomers using ALMA
...most powerful telescopes on Earth or in space," said Barth. "ALMA has the revolutionary ability to observe disks of cold gas around ... observation is the first demonstration of this capability for ALMA and has helped constrain the actual mass of the ...
11 October 2016
GRB afterglow observed by ALMA for the first time
... those in the millimetre/sub-millimetre range have in the past been lacking. Now, with the help of ALMA, a large international team of astronomers have used a selection of telescopes to study the afterglow of GRB 110715A at 17 different wavelengths...
08 March 2017
The most distant galaxy yet observed by ALMA gives insight into first stars
... required time is only about 200 million years — so we are witnessing this galaxy shortly after its formation.” ALMA is designed to study light in the millimeter and submillimeter range of the electromagnetic spectrum, which is the wavelength that...
20 April 2017
ALMA research team captures first clear image of accretion disk around a star
...an accretion disk – earlier technology was not able to obtain clear images. ALMA was able to zoom in on a star named IRAS 05413-0104, part...reproduce the observed dust emission in the disk. Credit: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO)/Lee et al. Accretion disks are ...
01 July 2019
Earliest known galaxy merger detected by ALMA
... of the Universe," explains Hashimoto. "Detection of radio waves from three components in such a distant object clearly demonstrates ALMA's high capability to investigate the distant Universe." Mergers are essential not only for star formation and...
