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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 August 2023

Paul A. Vanden Bout ,
Robert L. Dickman  and
Adele L. Plunkett
Paul A. Vanden Bout
Affiliation:
National Radio Astronomy Observatory, Virginia
Robert L. Dickman
Affiliation:
National Radio Astronomy Observatory, Virginia
Adele L. Plunkett
Affiliation:
National Radio Astronomy Observatory, Virginia

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The ALMA Telescope
The Story of a Science Mega-Project
 , pp. vii - xii
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023
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Contents

  1. Foreword

  2. Preface

  3. 1Interstellar Carbon Monoxide

    1. Celebrating a Toxic Gas

    2. Interstellar Medium

    3. Discovery of Interstellar Carbon Monoxide

    4. Early Development of Interstellar Molecular Astronomy

  4. 2What Now?

    1. Demise of the 25 Meter Project

    2. Community Action

    3. The Barrett Report

    4. Impact of the Barrett Report

      1. University of California, Berkeley, and HCRO

      2. HCRO Interferometer and BIMA

      3. California Institute of Technology, and OVRO

      4. OVRO Millimeter Array

      5. Combined Array for Research in Millimeter-wave Astronomy

      6. Submillimeter Array

    5. Millimeter Arrays in Japan and Europe

      1. Nobeyama Millimeter Array

      2. IRAM Plateau de Bure Interferometer

  5. 3The Millimeter Array

    1. First Concept of a US National Array

    2. A Revised Concept

    3. Steps to the MMA Proposal

      1. Technical Advisory Committee

      2. Science Advisory Committee

      3. Management Changes Affecting the MMA

      4. Final Steps toward a Formal MMA Proposal

    4. MMA Proposal

    5. Proposal Review

    6. Design and Development Plan

  6. 4Searching for a Site

    1. Millimeter Array Site Requirements

    2. United States Continental Sites

    3. Hawaii

    4. Atacama Desert of Chile

    5. Llano de Chajnantor

    6. Chajnantor Site Studies

    7. The Container

    8. Cost Considerations

    9. Site Proposal

    10. Protecting and Securing the Site

    11. Legal Status in Chile for AUI

    12. Radio Frequency Interference

  7. 5Foreign Affairs

    1. Funding Hurdles

    2. International Participation

    3. Selling the MMA Abroad

    4. Europe’s Large Southern Array

    5. Japan’s Large Millimeter/Submillimeter Array

    6. The MMA and LSA Become One Project

  8. 6Organizing ALMA

    1. Gaz Atacama

    2. Land Concession

    3. Early Joint Activities

    4. Defining ALMA in the United States

      1. A Revised Design and Development Plan

      2. The Reference Design for the MMA

    5. Further Steps in the Merger

    6. Defining ALMA in Europe

      1. LSA/MMA Feasibility Study

      2. ESO ALMA Proposal

    7. Dividing the Effort

    8. ALMA Coordinating Committee

      1. 30 March 1999, Garching

      2. 29 September 1999, Tokyo

      3. 12 November 1999, London

      4. 7 April 2000, Washington DC

      5. 13 October 2000, Paris

      6. 6 April 2001, Tokyo

      7. 30 October 2001, Washington DC

      8. 19 April 2002, Venice

      9. 17 September 2002, Garching

      10. 29 October 2002, Santiago

    9. Musical Chairs

  9. 7Contentious Matters

    1. Bilateral ALMA Agreement

    2. Japan Joins ALMA

    3. Site Negotiations

    4. Contracting for the Antennas

      1. Specifications

      2. Prototype Antenna Testing

      3. Prototype Destinies

      4. Production Antennas

    5. Local Staff Employment

    6. ALMA Headquarters Location

  10. 8Funding ALMA

    1. Europe

    2. Japan

    3. North America

    4. Project Reset

  11. 9Construction and Inauguration

    1. Groundbreaking

    2. Basics

      1. Roads

      2. Electrical Power

      3. Security

      4. Safety

      5. Water

      6. Communications

    3. High Site

      1. Antenna Pads

      2. Antenna Transporters

    4. Buildings

      1. Operations Support Facility

      2. AOS Technical Building

      3. Residence Hall

      4. Antenna Assembly Building

      5. Joint ALMA Office

    5. Antennas

      1. Preliminary Acceptance In-house

      2. Provisional Acceptance On-site

      3. Assembly, Integration, and Verification

      4. Commissioning and Science Verification

      5. Vertex Antenna Assembly

    6. Electronics

      1. Receivers

      2. Local Oscillator System

      3. Intermediate Frequency System

      4. Correlators

    7. Software

    8. Local Benefits of ALMA

    9. Inauguration

  12. 10Promises Fulfilled

    1. ALMA Science Goals

      1. Molecular Gas in Distant Galaxies

      2. Protoplanetary Disks as Sites of Forming Planets

      3. High Angular Resolution Imaging

    2. The Breadth of ALMA Science

      1. ALMA’s First Image

      2. Astrochemistry

      3. Distant Galaxies

    3. Competition for Observing Time

      1. Open Skies

      2. Annual Observing Cycles

      3. Proposal Preparation

      4. Panel Review

      5. Distributed Peer Review

      6. Dual Anonymous Review

    4. Steps in Remote Observing and Reduction of Data

      1. Remote Observing

      2. Data Reduction

      3. ALMA Science Archive

    5. Publication Statistics

    6. Large Programs

    7. Very Long Baseline Interferometry

    8. Future Prospects

    9. Conclusion

  13. Appendix A: Radio Astronomy

  14. Appendix B: Millimeter/Submillimeter Telescopes

  15. Appendix C: Lessons Learned

  16. Glossary

  17. References

  18. Index

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