ALMA's First Insights into the Submillimeter/millimeter Extragalactic Universe

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Jan 2012

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American Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting #219, #309.04

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As Early Science observations begin, ALMA is poised to investigate the dusty and molecular extragalactic Universe, from our nearest neighbors to the first galaxies. I will present prospects and early results for extragalactic studies from ALMA's first observing campaigns. Even its current Early Science mode, ALMA will achieve unprecedented sensitivity, frequency range and angular resolution. This will allow it to image the detailed kinematics of molecular flows in nearby AGN cores, resolve individual star-forming structures in other galaxies, and constrain the dynamics of the interstellar medium in cataclysmic mergers of the sort that trigger starbursts and quasars shortly after the epoch of re-ionization. I will demonstrate these fantastic capabilities by showing highlights from the first Early Science and Science Verification observations, including imaging of the nearby major mergers NGC 3256 and the Antennae.

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