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Observing the Sun with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA): Fast-Scan Single-Dish Mapping
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WoS WOS:000406304300006
Scopus SCOPUS_ID:85021173400
DOI 10.1007/S11207-017-1123-2
Año 2017
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Abstract



The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) radio telescope has commenced science observations of the Sun starting in late 2016. Since the Sun is much larger than the field of view of individual ALMA dishes, the ALMA interferometer is unable to measure the background level of solar emission when observing the solar disk. The absolute temperature scale is a critical measurement for much of ALMA solar science, including the understanding of energy transfer through the solar atmosphere, the properties of prominences, and the study of shock heating in the chromosphere. In order to provide an absolute temperature scale, ALMA solar observing will take advantage of the remarkable fast-scanning capabilities of the ALMA 12 m dishes to make single-dish maps of the full Sun. This article reports on the results of an extensive commissioning effort to optimize the mapping procedure, and it describes the nature of the resulting data. Amplitude calibration is discussed in detail: a path that uses the two loads in the ALMA calibration system as well as sky measurements is described and applied to commissioning data. Inspection of a large number of single-dish datasets shows significant variation in the resulting temperatures, and based on the temperature distributions, we derive quiet-Sun values at disk center of 7300 K at lambda = 3 mm and 5900 K at lambda = 1.3 mm. These values have statistical uncertainties of about 100 K, but systematic uncertainties in the temperature scale that may be significantly larger. Example images are presented from two periods with very different levels of solar activity. At a resolution of about 25 '', the 1.3 mm wavelength images show temperatures on the disk that vary over about a 2000 K range. Active regions and plages are among the hotter features, while a large sunspot umbra shows up as a depression, and filament channels are relatively cool. Prominences above the solar limb are a common feature of the single-dish images.

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Solar Physics 0038-0938

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Ord. Autor Género Institución - País
1 White, S. M. - Air Force Res Lab - Estados Unidos
Kirtland Air Force Base - Estados Unidos
Air Force Research Laboratory - Estados Unidos
2 Iwai, Kazumasa Hombre Natl Inst Informat & Communicat Technol - Japón
Japan National Institute of Information and Communications Technology - Japón
3 Phillips, Neil Hombre Atacama Large Millimeter Array - Chile
ESO - Chile
Atacama Large Millimeter-submillimeter Array - Chile
European Southern Observatory Santiago - Chile
ESO - Alemania
4 Hills, Richard E. Hombre Cavendish Lab - Reino Unido
Department of Physics - Reino Unido
5 Hirota, A. Hombre Atacama Large Millimeter Array - Chile
Natl Astron Observ Japan - Japón
Atacama Large Millimeter-submillimeter Array - Chile
National Institutes of Natural Sciences - National Astronomical Observatory of Japan - Japón
6 Yagoubov, P. Hombre ESO - Alemania
7 Siringo, G. - Atacama Large Millimeter Array - Chile
ESO - Chile
8 Shimojo, Masumi Mujer Natl Astron Observ Japan - Japón
National Institutes of Natural Sciences - National Astronomical Observatory of Japan - Japón
9 Bastian, T. S. - Natl Radio Astron Observ - Estados Unidos
National Radio Astronomy Observatory - Estados Unidos
10 HALES-GEBRIM, ANTONIO SALVADOR Hombre Atacama Large Millimeter Array - Chile
Natl Radio Astron Observ - Estados Unidos
Atacama Large Millimeter-submillimeter Array - Chile
National Radio Astronomy Observatory - Estados Unidos
11 Sawada, Tsuyoshi Hombre Atacama Large Millimeter Array - Chile
Natl Astron Observ Japan - Japón
Atacama Large Millimeter-submillimeter Array - Chile
National Institutes of Natural Sciences - National Astronomical Observatory of Japan - Japón
12 Asayama, S. - Atacama Large Millimeter Array - Chile
Natl Astron Observ Japan - Japón
13 Sugimoto, M. - Natl Astron Observ Japan - Japón
14 Marson, R. G. - Pete V Domenici Sci Operat Ctr - Estados Unidos
National Radio Astronomy Observatory Socorro - Estados Unidos
National Radio Astronomy Observatory - Estados Unidos
15 Kawasaki, W. - Natl Astron Observ Japan - Japón
National Institutes of Natural Sciences - National Astronomical Observatory of Japan - Japón
16 Muller, E. - Natl Astron Observ Japan - Japón
17 Nakazato, T. - Natl Astron Observ Japan - Japón
National Institutes of Natural Sciences - National Astronomical Observatory of Japan - Japón
18 Sugimoto, K. - Natl Astron Observ Japan - Japón
National Institutes of Natural Sciences - National Astronomical Observatory of Japan - Japón
19 Brajsa, R. - Univ Zagreb - Croacia
Sveučilište u Zagrebu, Geodetski fakultet - Croacia
20 Skokic, I. - Czech Acad Sci - República Checa
Astronomical Institute, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic v.v.i. - República Checa
21 Barta, M. - Czech Acad Sci - República Checa
22 Ree, Chang H. Hombre Korea Astron & Space Sci Inst - Corea del Sur
Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute - Corea del Sur
23 Remijan, A. J. - Natl Radio Astron Observ - Estados Unidos
24 de Gregorio-Monsalvo, Itziar Mujer Atacama Large Millimeter Array - Chile
ESO - Chile
Atacama Large Millimeter-submillimeter Array - Chile
European Southern Observatory Santiago - Chile
ESO - Alemania
25 Corder, S. A. - Atacama Large Millimeter Array - Chile
Natl Radio Astron Observ - Estados Unidos
26 Hudson, H. S. - Univ Glasgow - Reino Unido
University of Glasgow - Reino Unido
27 Loukitcheva, M. - New Jersey Inst Technol - Estados Unidos
Max Planck Inst Sonnensystemforsch - Alemania
St Petersburg Univ - Rusia
New Jersey Institute of Technology - Estados Unidos
Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research - Alemania
Saint Petersburg State University - Rusia
28 Chen, B. - New Jersey Inst Technol - Estados Unidos
29 De Pontieu, B. - Lockheed Martin Solar & Astrophys Lab - Estados Unidos
Lockheed Martin Corporation - Estados Unidos
30 Fleishmann, G. D. - New Jersey Inst Technol - Estados Unidos
New Jersey Institute of Technology - Estados Unidos
31 Gary, D. E. - New Jersey Inst Technol - Estados Unidos
New Jersey Institute of Technology - Estados Unidos
32 Kobelski, A. - UNIV ALABAMA - Estados Unidos
Center for Space Plasma and Aeronomic Research - Estados Unidos
33 Wedemeyer, S. Hombre Univ Oslo - Noruega
Universitetet i Oslo - Noruega
34 Yan, Y. - CASSACA - China
National Astronomical Observatories Chinese Academy of Sciences - China

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Financiamiento



Fuente
NSFC
NSF
Croatian Science Foundation
Horizon 2020 Framework Programme
FP7 Capacities Programme
European Commission FP7 project SOLARNET, which is an Integrated Infrastructure Initiative (I3)
ALMA Development grant from NAOJ
ALMA Development grant from ESO
ALMA Development grant from NRAO

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Agradecimiento
The ALMA solar commissioning effort was supported by ALMA Development grants from NRAO (for the North American contribution), ESO (for the European contribution), and NAOJ (for the East Asia contribution). The help and cooperation of the ALMA Extension and Optimization of Capabilities (EOC) team as well as the engineers, telescope operators, astronomers-on-duty, and staff at the ALMA Operations Support Facility was crucial for the success of solar commissioning campaigns in 2014 and 2015. We are grateful to the ALMA project for making solar observing with ALMA possible. R. Brajsa acknowledges partial support of this work by the Croatian Science Foundation under the project 6212 "Solar and Stellar Variability" and by the European Commission FP7 project SOLARNET (312495, 2013 - 2017), which is an Integrated Infrastructure Initiative (I3) supported by the FP7 Capacities Programme. G. Fleishmann acknowledges support from NSF grants AGS-1250374 and AGS-1262772. Travel by Y. Yan to ALMA for the 2015 commissioning campaign was partially supported by NSFC grant 11433006.

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