Introduction

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Feb 2009

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ALMA Newsletter, vol. 1, p. 1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

Alma

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The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) will be a (sub)millimeter wave interferometer consisting of at least 66 antennas located on the Chajnantor plateau in the Atacama Desert of northern Chile at 5000m altitude. ALMA will be a leading astronomical instrument for observing the cool universe -- the molecular gas and dust that constitute the building blocks of stars, planetary systems, galaxies, and of life itself. We thus aim to provide new, much needed insights into the formation of stars and planets, and will reveal distant galaxies in the early Universe, which we see as they were over ten billion years ago. As ALMA makes progress in construction and transitions into operations, we will seek to keep the scientific community abreast of the latest information with a high-level account of events, including summaries of ALMA meetings and the achievement of major milestones. In so doing, this newsletter is a reflection that the project is becoming a real observatory which will serve the global community. The regional ALMA newsletters will continue publishing news about ALMA in order to highlight developments which directly affect their communities.

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