[alma-config] ALMA reaches its higher resolution modes

[Lee G. Mundy]

Congratulations to all who worked to make ALMA and the long baselines
happen. This is really a spectacular image -- which highlights why
the long baseline are so important. The fact that the disk has so
much ring structure throughout is a clue to important the physics
shaping the disk, which would have been missed
(and was missed) with lower resolution.

This is a great start into the discovery space opened up by the
long baselines...

Cheers to all,

Lee

On Thu, 6 Nov 2014, awootten wrote:

> Folks,
> 
> I'm unsure how many of these emails still function.  As you may know, ALMA reached the end of construction on the
> schedule and budget agreed by the partners and their funding agencies on 2014 September 30.  We all appreciate the
> efforts you put in to bring this about.  A late stage of development has been to implement the long baselines, which
> have demanding infrastructure and implementation needs.  However, the team in Chile led by Stuartt Corder, Tony
> Remijan, Cat Vlahakis and aided by many others has produced some spectacular results, one of which was the subject of a
> press release today.
> 
> In my wildest dreams I never thought the long baselines would produce such stupendous results so quickly upon using
> them.  The image looks better than the simulations Lee Mundy and colleagues made in the 90s.  Congratulations to the
> team!
> 
> https://public.nrao.edu/news/pressreleases/planet-formation-alma
> 
> NSF/NRAO Google Hangout to discuss these findings (6 November 2014; 10 a.m. E.S.T.):
> 
> https://plus.google.com/events/ceul1hkj60se5uts2u75rgqe7rc
> 
> Clear skies,
> Al
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