1 ALMA/ASTE/Mopra Report Daisuke Iono (NAOJ) NRO UM 2014/7/24
2 ALMA Telescope 21 countries and regions (Japan, Taiwan, Korea, U.S., Canada, 15 European nations, and Chile) 4 regions East Asia: NAOJ North America: NRAO Europe: ESO Chile: Joint ALMA Observatory (JAO)
3 ALMA Status Arrival of final antenna at the AOS (5000 meter site)
4 Science Capabilities Time available (12m array 7me) Bands Cycle 0 (2011-2013) Cycle 1 (2013-2014) Cycle 2 (2014-2015) 500 hours 800 hours 2000 hours 100, 230, 345, 690 GHz (Bands 3,6,7,9) Antennas > 16 x 12m 32 x 12m antennas ACA (9 x 7m, 2 x 12m TP) 100, 150, 230, 345, 450, 690 GHz (Bands 3,4,6,7,8,9) 34 x 12m antennas ACA (9 x 7m, 2 x 12m TP) Baselines Max 400 m baseline (~0.3 resolu7on) Max 1 km baseline (~0.1 resolu7on) Max 1-1.5 km baseline (~0.1 resolu7on) Other capabili7es Spectral scan Polariza7on (band 3,6,7)
5 Number of Proposals 1600 1400 1200 1000 800 600 400 EA NA+Opensky EU CL Total 200 0 Cycle 0 Cycle 1 Cycle 2
6 Number of Proposals in EA 300 250 200 150 100 Japan Taiwan Korea total 50 0 Cycle 0 Cycle 1 Cycle 2
7 Oversubscription rate 14.0 12.0 11.5 10.0 8.0 6.0 4.0 2.0 8.2 7.7 6.8 3.2 9.2 5.8 5.3 4.9 4.2 3.9 3.7 3.3 2.8 2.8 EA NA+Opensky EU CL Total 0.0 Cycle 0 Cycle 1 Cycle 2
8 EA ALMA Regional Center EA ARC EA Science
9 ARC Core Functionalities Proposal Preparation Helpdesk Town mee7ngs Suppor7ng so]ware (OT, CASA simula7on, etc) Observation Preparation Observing script genera7on Change requests (JAO) Data Reduction and Delivery Manual data reduc7on (Quality Assurance) (TBA) Pipeline assisted data reduc7on Data delivery (1 yr proprietary) ALMA for no- radio astronomers After Delivery Service Help desk f2f support (for data reduc7on/analysis) Archive support
10 ARC non-core Functionalities Science operation of ASTE and Mopra telescopes Data filler to CASA (Nobeyama 45m, ASTE) Development of joint archive of ALMA, Nobeyama 45m, ASTE Laboratory molecular line database (Toyama), http://www.sci.u-toyama.ac.jp/phys/4ken/atlas/ VO collaboration with JVO group (NAOJ) Portal for FITS images of ALMA Public data, SV data 3D FITS image viewer Vissage http://jvo.nao.ac.jp/ download/vissage/
11 Workshops in 2014 ASTE/ALMA Development Workshop June 17 18, Mitaka 47 participants EA ALMA Science Workshop July 14-17, Jeju, Korea 84 participants (40 Korea, 32 Japan, 12 Taiwan) Next WS; Japan in 2015 ALMA Workshops Call for 2014b ALMA WS proposals in early August
12 ASTE Operation Schedule: 2013-14 2013 2014 Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Site operation stopped. Heavy Snow Science Operation Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec TES Camera Commissioning Spectroscopy (350GHz) Spectroscopy (350GHz) THz-RX Tests TES Camera Commissioning Operation suspended Science Operation ASTE CfP 2014: CATS345 + MAC 1 st CfP: March 2014 (June September) 2 nd CfP: June 2014 (October December), Deadline: 29 th July Spectrometer WHSF is available.
13 Science Observing Time Time [hours] X 4 2,200h 500h Open use for East Asia is started from 2013. (Operation was suspended for ~ 2 months due to heavy snow in 2013)
14 Statistics of ASTE CfP 2014a Common Use GTO Chilean Time Available Time 920 hours 300 hours 130 hours # of submided 28 5 1 Request Time 727 hours 134 hours 40 hours # of accepted 20 5 1 Accepted Time 514 hours 134 hours 40 hours Galactic source: 80%, Extra- galaxy: ~ 15% WHSF is available from 2014b Remaining time Commissioning time for WHSF Backup time for Open- Use/GTO
15 WHSF commissioning results WHSF Upgrade High Speed Sampler: 1- bit 3- bit Quantization correction of 3- bit ADC
16 NAOJ Mopra Operation D. Iono A. Kawamura E. Muller T. Umemoto Begun in summer of 2013 2000 hours per year (for 3 years) Two call for proposals per year Remote observations from Mitaka (or your home institute)
17 Mopra Proposal History Number of Proposals Requested Hours Submitted Accepted Submitted Accepted 1.4 1.2 1.0 1.6 1.6 1.8 1.4 1.0 1.9 Oversubscription Rate 1.9
18 Mopra Timeline April 2014: 2014a observations begun October 2014: 2014b observations end December 2014: Call for proposals 2015a ~ (TBD) March 2015: Call for proposals 2015b Future yet to be determined CSIRO budget cut Discussion at the JSAC (ALMA 小委員会 ) Seek community voice at ALMA/ASTE/Mopra UM
19 Conferences and Workshops ALMA/ASTE/Mopra Users Meeting October 27 29 @Mitaka Revolution in Astronomy with ALMA the 3 rd year December 8 11 @Tokyo International Forum Deadline for talks August 20 Deadline for registration October 15