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2017.05.09
ALMA is an international project in cooperation with 22 countries and regions where several hundreds of people from various fields are working together as a te…
2017.04.10
On February 20 and 21, 2017, two-day ALMA ACA Total Power (TP) Array Spectrometer Preliminary Design Review (PDR) was held at the Korea Astronomy and Space Sci…
2016.12.21
The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) in Chile has begun observing in a new range of the electromagnetic spectrum. This has been made possibl…
2016.07.06
The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) Board officially approved the production of Band 1 receiver developed by an international team led by t…
2014.09.11
The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) has reached a major milestone by extending its vision fully into the realm of the submillimeter, the wa…
2013.06.27
ALMA telescope successfully captured its first radio image with Band 4 receiver developed by Japan in an ALMA test observation conducted in January 2013. The t…
2013.05.07
The twelfth 7-m antenna developed by Japan was delivered to the high site in Chajnantor on April 29, 2013. Now all the 16 antennas of the Atacama Compact Arr…
2013.03.14
On March 13th, in a remote part of the Chilean Andes, the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), was inaugurated at an official ceremony. This …
2012.11.21
On November 10 (Chilean Time), Band 10 receiver manufactured by the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan successfully received radio waves from a celesti…
2012.11.09
Another European 12-m antenna arrived at the Array Operations Site (AOS) at 5000 m asl. This brought the number of antennas at the AOS to 45. This photo was ta…
2012.11.02
On October 8 (Chilean Time), interference fringes were successfully detected in an interferometer test conducted with Band 4 receivers developed by NAOJ on fou…
2012.09.14
From September 13 through 14 (Chilean Time), an interferometer test was conducted with a Band 8 receiver developed by NAOJ and three Japanese 7-m antennas, and…
2012.08.01
On July 31(Chile Time), interference fringes were successfully detected in an interferometer test with Band 4 receivers at the Operations Support Facility (OSF…
2012.06.05
Before its construction is even completed, the new ALMA (Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array) telescope is embarking on an upgrade that will help astr…
2012.05.29
On April 29 (Chilean time), we conducted a test polarization observation using five Japanese 7-m ACA (Atacama Compact Array) antennas and a Japanese ACA correl…
2012.05.02
On the night of April 28 (Chilean time), interference fringes were successfully detected in an interferometer test using two Japanese antennas at a distance of…
2012.03.28
On March 18, 2012, an interferometer test was conducted at the Array Operations Site (AOS) at 5000 m asl using two Japanese 7-m antennas equipped with the Band…
2011.11.22
One Band 4 and one Band 8 receivers were packed at the NAOJ Advanced Technology Center in Mitaka on November 8, and sent by air from Narita to Washington on No…
2011.10.03
The most powerful millimeter/submillimeter-wavelength telescope in the world opens for business and reveals its first image Humanity’s most complex grou…
2011.09.02
On September 2, an interferometer test was conducted with the first Japanese 7-m and first 12-m antennas at the Array Operations Site (AOS) at 5000 m asl and i…
On July 29, Yoshinobu Hiraishi, who was appointed as Ambassador of Japan to Chile this year, visited the ALMA Array Ope…
After notifying the over 1100 astronomers who were granted observation time with ALMA, a process that had taken nearly …
Professor Takaaki Kajita, Director of the Institute for Cosmic Ray Research (ICRR) at the University of Tokyo, is one o…
