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Jan 2011
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2011alman...7....4h&link_type=abstract
ALMA Newsletter, vol. 7, p. 4-7
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As many of you are aware, ALMA has reached a very exciting point in the construction phase. After a year of testing the basic functionality of antennas and small arrays at the Chajnantor site at 5000m, we are now able to run full observations of scientific targets using at least 8 antennas and 4 receiver bands. We recently had a series of reviews of all aspects of the ALMA Project, resulting in a consensus that we will be ready to issue a Call for Proposals for Early Science projects at the end of the first quarter of 2011, with an expectation of starting these Early Science observations toward the end of 2011. ALMA Science Verification is the process by which we will demonstrate that the data that will be produced by ALMA during Early Science is valid. This is done by running full "end to end" tests of ALMA as a telescope. We will observe objects for which similar data are already available for other telescopes. This allows us to make direct quantitative comparisons of all aspects of the data cubes, in order to determine whether the ALMA instrumentation or software is introducing any artifacts.
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