The ALMA Design Reference Science Plan has migrated to ESO at http://www.eso.org/sci/facilities/alma/science/drsp/. Older versions of the DRSP are still accessible below but are no longer updated.
The goal of the ALMA Design Reference Science Plan (DRSP) is to provide a prototype suite of high-priority ALMA projects that could be carried out in ~3-4 years of full ALMA operations. The DRSP serves as a quantitative reference for developing the science operations plan, for performing imaging simulations, for software design, and for other applications within the ALMA project.
Originally collected and put on the web by Jes Jørgensen, these pages are now maintained my Michiel Hogerheijde, who should be contacted with any questions about the DRSP or these pages.
On these pages you can find
- DRSP 1.0: The original DRSP for ALMA
bands 3, 6, 7, and 9 covering 3-4 years of ALMA operations
(December 2003)
- DRSP 1.0 Calibration: Calibration
requirements for DRSP 1.0 (August 2004)
- DRSP 1.1: The original DRSP with
several projects updated (last updated, June 2006)
- DRSP 2.0 (review version): Extension to
ALMA bands 4, 5, and 8, and ACA. (Fall 2006)
- DRSP 2.+ For the latest version of the DRSP, see ESO's
website at http://www.eso.org/sci/facilities/alma/science/drsp/.
Description of the DRSP 2.0 call: New projects can be suggested that make use of any of the bands 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, or 9, and existing projects can be updated to make use of new capabilities or to reflect progress in science questions. Projects can also make use of the ACA, either as a stand-alone array or through ACA-baseline_ALMA cross-correlation. DRSP 2.0 is expected to fill approximately 6 years of ALMA operations.- Text of e-mail to DRSP authors
- Template DRSP form. Authors of existing DRSP projects are encouraged to updated their projects using this form, which contains a few additional questions, including the required calibration accuracy (check here for requirements already on file).
- Science topics and coordinators
- ALMA technical information
- ALMA frequency bands
- ALMA sensitivity
- For all bands use the on-line ALMA Sensitivity Calculator (30aug06: The on-line calculator now assumes the best 25-percentile weather conditions for the 175 to 191 GHz (Band 5) and 365 to 373 GHz (Band 7) frequency ranges. No need anymore to use the tabulated values around these atmospheric lines.)