Not exact matches
Co-author Pedro Amado, also from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía, explains that this
observation is just the start: «These first
results show that
ALMA can detect dust structures orbiting around Proxima.
Since the angular resolution provided by
ALMA was 36 times higher than that applied to the past CO
observations, the
observation results clearly revealed the details of complex structure and kinematics of gas.
These observational
results were published as Aso et al. «
ALMA Observations of the Transition from Infall Motion to Keplerian Rotation around the Late - phase Protostar TMC - 1A» in the Astrophysical Journal, issued in October 2015.
Team member Robert Laing at ESO is optimistic about the prospects for
ALMA Band 5
observations: «It's very exciting to see these first
results from
ALMA Band 5 using a limited set of antennas.
Paper and Research Team These observational
results were published by Takano et al. as «Distributions of molecules in the circumnuclear disk and surrounding starburst ring in the Seyfert galaxy NGC 1068 observed with
ALMA» (in the astronomical journal Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan (PASJ), issued in July 2014) and by Nakajima et al. «A Multi-Transition Study of Molecules toward NGC 1068 based on High - Resolution Imaging
Observations with
ALMA» (in PASJ issued in February 2015).
With the
ALMA observations the team successfully measured the number density of galaxies approximately 10 times darker than the millimeter wave research
results up to now.
John Silverman's comment «These
observations clearly demonstrate
ALMA's unique capability to measure with ease a critical component of high redshift galaxies thus indicative of the remarkable
results to come from
ALMA.»
Reference: These
observation results were published as Oya et al. «Infalling - Rotating Motion and Associated Chemical Change in the Envelope of IRAS 16293 - 2422 Source A Studied with
ALMA» in the Astrophysical Journal issued on 20 June 2016.
Artist's rendition of Himiko that is based on the
results from the
observations of
ALMA and Hubble Space Telescope.