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| DOI | 10.1007/S11207-017-1123-2 | ||||
| Año | 2017 | ||||
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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.
| 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
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| 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
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| 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
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| 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
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| 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
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| 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
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| 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 |
| Fuente |
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| 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 |
| Agradecimiento |
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| 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. |