Knowledgebase
- What spectral resolution will I get for a given channel spacing?
- What is the appropriate acknowledgement to use in our publication?
- How do I link my ALMA user account to my account at a trusted institution?
- What is the absolute astrometric accuracy of ALMA?
- What is a Cycle 7 Solar data issue I should be aware of?
- How can I use the OT to observe ephemeris objects?
- Where can I download the ALMA OT?
- How will users be notified when a new version of the OT is available?
- How do I deal with targets with unspecified coordinates in the OT?
- What should I include for the content of the Technical Justification and in what format should I submit it?
- I've downloaded the ALMA Proposal Template (LaTeX format). How do I convert it to letter size?
- May I submit an identical proposal to more than one category, e.g. submitting a proposal on distant galaxies both to cosmology and to galaxy categories?
- What should I do if I have an issue with my proposal assessment?
- What is dual-anonymous peer review and how do I adhere to it?
- What is distributed peer review process and how does it work?
- Why are flux scaling and restoring beam calculations in the task clean incorrect?
- Why must I justify data rates higher than 40 MB/s in my Cycle 4 Technical Justification?
- OT will not start due to a security exception
- I heard that images generated with CASA<5.1.1 are affected by CASA imaging issues. How should I deal with it?
- I heard that TP images generated with CASA<5.7/6.1 are affected by an issue with the task (t)sdimaging. How should I deal with it?
- How should I create and use my own Observatories table when an observatory is not known to CASA?
- What primary beam does CASA use for ALMA 12-m antennas? And what is the actual ALMA 12-m antenna primary beam, for that matter?
- How do I obtain a file of calibrated visibilities ("measurement set") for ALMA data?
- Why does scriptForPI.py crash with NameError: name 'hif_restoredata' is not defined ?
- How do I recreate Pipeline-calibrated Total Power Data?
- Does Simobserve account for both polarizations when simulating continuum observations?
- What are the limits on observing multiple lines at edges of the IF or RF band (such as 12CO and 13CO2-1)?
- How can I simulate observations with multiple configurations?
- Should I submit a proposal for my incomplete project from previous Cycles?
- Can I specify the date on which my observations should be taken or set up a monitoring observation?
- How do I update the information for my ALMA Science Portal account?
- What translations will be available for user documentation from ALMA?
- I can't seem to register in the Science Portal! What could be the problem?
- How do I track the observational progress of my project?
- Where can I see a list of projects or targets that were observed by ALMA on a given date?