The Atacama Large Millimeter Array
Implications of a Potential Descope
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2005
National Academies Press (Verlag)
978-0-309-09694-2 (ISBN)
National Academies Press (Verlag)
978-0-309-09694-2 (ISBN)
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Presents an assessment of the effect of downsizing on technical performance specifications, performance degradation, and the ability to perform transformational science, and of the minimum number of antennas needed.
The 1991 NRC decadal survey for astronomy and astrophysics included a project called the Millimeter Array (MMA). This instrument would be an array of millimeter-wavelength telescopes intended to capture images of star-forming regions and distant star-burst galaxies. With the addition of contributions form Europe, the MMA evolved into the Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA), a proposed array of 64, 12-meter antennas. The project is now part of the NSF Major Research Equipment and Facilities budget request. Increased costs, however, have forced the NSF to reconsider the number of antennas. To help with that review, NSF asked the NRC to assess the scientific consequences of reducing the number of active antennas from 60 to either 50 or 40. This report presents an assessment of the effect of downsizing on technical performance specifications, performance degradation, and the ability to perform transformational science, and of the minimum number of antennas needed.
Table of Contents
Front Matter
Summary
1 Introduction
2 Technical Performance Specifications
3 Performance Degradation
4 The Threshold for Transformational Science
5 Minimum Number of Antennas
Appendix A: Letter of Request
Appendix B: ALMA Level-1 Science Requirements
The 1991 NRC decadal survey for astronomy and astrophysics included a project called the Millimeter Array (MMA). This instrument would be an array of millimeter-wavelength telescopes intended to capture images of star-forming regions and distant star-burst galaxies. With the addition of contributions form Europe, the MMA evolved into the Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA), a proposed array of 64, 12-meter antennas. The project is now part of the NSF Major Research Equipment and Facilities budget request. Increased costs, however, have forced the NSF to reconsider the number of antennas. To help with that review, NSF asked the NRC to assess the scientific consequences of reducing the number of active antennas from 60 to either 50 or 40. This report presents an assessment of the effect of downsizing on technical performance specifications, performance degradation, and the ability to perform transformational science, and of the minimum number of antennas needed.
Table of Contents
Front Matter
Summary
1 Introduction
2 Technical Performance Specifications
3 Performance Degradation
4 The Threshold for Transformational Science
5 Minimum Number of Antennas
Appendix A: Letter of Request
Appendix B: ALMA Level-1 Science Requirements
Committee to Review the Science Requirements for the Atacama Large Millimeter Array, National Research Council
1 Front Matter; 2 Summary; 3 1 Introduction; 4 2 Technical Performance Specifications; 5 3 Performance Degradation; 6 4 The Threshold for Transformational Science; 7 5 Minimum Number of Antennas; 8 Appendix A: Letter of Request; 9 Appendix B: ALMA Level-1 Science Requirements
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 27.11.2005 |
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Verlagsort | Washington |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
Themenwelt | Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Astronomie / Astrophysik |
ISBN-10 | 0-309-09694-4 / 0309096944 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-309-09694-2 / 9780309096942 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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