Cycle 0, Highest Priority
Proposals responding to the ALMA Early Science Cycle 0 Call for Proposals were due 30 June 2011. ALMA initiated Cycle 0 Early Science operations on 30 September 2011. The table below lists the highest priority Cycle 0 Early Science. Additional information on each proposal is available by clicking on the Proposal ID.
| Proposal ID | PI Name | Exec | Country | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011.0.00645.S | Aalto, Susanne | EU | Sweden | Winds of change? - probing the nuclear activity and outflow of the FIR-excess galaxy NGC1377 |
| 2011.0.00497.S | Abraham, Zulema | EU | Brazil | Eta Carinae: Continuum and H and He recombination lines |
| 2011.0.00150.S | Akeson, Rachel | NA | United States | Testing planet and star formation in binary systems |
| 2011.0.00511.S | Alatalo, Katherine | NA | United States | Mapping Shock Chemistry in NGC 1266: Local Example of AGN-driven Feedback |
| 2011.0.00084.S | Andrews, Sean | NA | United States | The V4046 Sgr Disk: A Benchmark for Planetesimal Evolution |
| 2011.0.00017.S | Belloche, Arnaud | EU | Germany | Expanding the frontiers of chemical complexity with ALMA |
| 2011.0.00172.S | Bolatto, Alberto | NA | United States | The Life Cycle of the Molecular Gas in the Nearest Nuclear Starburst: GMCs, Molecular Superwind, and Feedback |
| 2011.0.00191.S | Boley, Aaron | NA | United States | Constraining the Formation Mechanisms of Wide-Orbit Planets: The Case of Fomalhaut b |
| 2011.0.00524.S | Bronfman, Leonardo | CL | Chile | Resolving the massive molecular outflow G331.5 |
| 2011.0.00223.S | Bujarrabal, Valentin | EU | Spain | The rotating equatorial disk in the Red Rectangle |
| 2011.0.00470.S | Carpenter, John | NA | United States | Structure of the Debris Disk around the Solar Analog HD 107146 |
| 2011.0.00526.S | Carpenter, John | NA | United States | A Survey of Circumstellar Disks around Low-mass stars in the Upper Scorpius OB Association |
| 2011.0.00465.S | Casassus, Simon | CL | Chile | Warm gas in the HD142527 planet-forming disk |
| 2011.0.00120.S | Caselli, Paola | EU | United Kingdom | The earliest stages of star and planet formation |
| 2011.0.00808.S | Cavalié, Thibault | EU | France | Probing the vertical structure of Saturn's storm with ALMA |
| 2011.0.00229.S | Cernicharo, Jose | EU | Spain | A STUDY OF THE DUST FORMATION ZONE IN IRC+10216 |
| 2011.0.00275.S | Cesaroni, Riccardo | EU | Italy | Dissecting disks around B-type (proto)stars |
| 2011.0.00320.S | Chapillon, Edwige | EA/NA | Taiwan | Dispersal of protoplanetary disks: study of suspected gas-poor dusty-rich sources |
| 2011.0.00629.S | Chapillon, Edwige | EA/NA | Taiwan | CN excitation in T-Tauri disks: a challenge to protoplanetary disks models |
| 2011.0.00750.S | Chini, Rolf | CL | Chile | The largest circumstellar disk - Birth of a high-mass star through accretion? |
| 2011.0.00647.S | Codella, Claudio | EU | Italy | The origin of molecular jets: new clues from CO and SiO in HH212 |
| 2011.0.00208.S | Combes, Francoise | EU | France | Feeding and feedback in two nearby Seyfert galaxies |
| 2011.0.00820.S | Costagliola, Francesco | EU | Sweden | A 170 GHz-wide Complete Spectral Scan of an IR-pumped, Luminous Infrared Galaxy |
| 2011.0.00124.S | De Breuck, Carlos | EU | ESO | Spatially extended [CII] in a z=4.8 SMG |
| 2011.0.00277.S | Decin, Leen | EU | Belgium | The mystery of water vapor in IRC+10216 |
| 2011.0.00754.S | Doi, Akihiro | EA | Japan | The Sombrero galaxy with a very massive black hole at extreme sub-Eddington rate |
| 2011.0.00961.S | Drahus, Michal | NA | United States | A Close-up Look at Comet Elenin |
| 2011.0.00059.S | Dutrey, Anne | EU | France | GG Tau: the Ringworld revisited by ALMA |
| 2011.0.00130.S | Ellis, Richard | NA | United States | Spectroscopy of a normal star-forming galaxy at z=2 with 300 parsec resolution: physical conditions in the cold ISM at high redshift |
| 2011.0.00136.S | Encrenaz, Therese | EU | France | Sulfur and water mapping in the mesosphere of Venus |
| 2011.0.00887.S | Falcke, Heino | EU | Netherlands | Monitoring fast variations of event-horizon scale gas in Sgr A* with frequency switching |
| 2011.0.00851.S | Farihi, Jay | EU | United Kingdom | The Origin of the Destroyed Minor Planet at G29-38: a Main Belt or Kuiper Belt Analog? |
| 2011.0.00747.S | Ferkinhoff, Carl | NA | United States | Mapping the [NII] 122 micron line in high-z galaxies. |
| 2011.0.00396.S | Friesen, Rachel | NA | United States | Using the first inteferometer H2D+ observations to constrain clustered star-forming core structure |
| 2011.0.00318.S | Fukagawa, Misato | EA | Japan | Probing Dust and Gas within the Gap of the Protoplanetary Disk around HD 142527 |
| 2011.0.00419.S | Garay, Guido | CL | Chile | First images of a protoplanetary disk around a very massive protostar |
| 2011.0.00083.S | Garcia-Burillo, Santiago | EU | Spain | The footprints of SF and AGN activity in NGC1068: a case study for ALMA |
| 2011.0.00652.S | Greene, Jenny | NA | United States | Deciphering black hole feedback: molecular outflow in an obscured quasar |
| 2011.0.00351.S | Guzman, Andres Ernesto | CL | Chile | First detection of Hydrogen recombination lines toward an ionized jet arising from a high-mass protostar |
| 2011.0.00772.S | Hirota, Akihiko | EA | Japan | Giant Molecular Cloud Survey Toward bar and arm of the nearby Galaxy M83 |
| 2011.0.00199.S | Hirota, Tomoya | EA | Japan | Bursting Water Maser Feature in Orion KL |
| 2011.0.00235.S | Ho, Paul | EA/NA | Taiwan | Does the Neutral Material Survive to within 0.1 parsec of the Galactic Supermassive Black Hole? |
| 2011.0.00921.S | Huelamo, Nuria | EU | Spain | Physical conditions for planet formation: the case of T Cha |
| 2011.0.00039.S | Hunt, Leslie | EU | Italy | The ALMA view of the cool dust in an extreme low-metallicity starburst |
| 2011.0.00020.S | Imanishi, Masatoshi | EA | Japan | Molecular line flux ratios and AGN feedback in gas/dust-rich galaxies |
| 2011.0.00273.S | Indebetouw, Remy | NA | United States | SN87A: A Unique Laboratory for Shock and Dust Physics |
| 2011.0.00471.S | Indebetouw, Remy | NA | United States | 30 Doradus: Dense Gas in the Nearest Super-Star Cluster |
| 2011.0.00099.S | Iono, Daisuke | EA | Japan | Reformation of Cold Molecular Disks in Merger Remnants |
| 2011.0.00467.S | Iono, Daisuke | EA | Japan | Dense Gas and Starburst/AGN Activities in the Late-stage IR-Bright Merger VV114 |
| 2011.0.00469.S | Jordan, Andres | CL | Chile | The cold debris disk in the unique planetary system around HR 8799 |
| 2011.0.00628.S | Jorgensen, Jes | EU | Denmark | Disks and complex organics in the inner regions of low-mass protostars |
| 2011.0.00525.S | Kazushi, Sakamoto | EA/NA | Taiwan | Imaging the Most Luminous Galaxy within z=0.01 |
| 2011.0.00108.S | Kohno, Kotaro | EA | Japan | X-ray irradiated dense molecular medium in the active nucleus of NGC 1097 |
| 2011.0.00780.S | Kospal, Agnes | EU | Netherlands | The origin of molecular gas in the oldest gaseous debris disk system HD 21997 |
| 2011.0.00122.S | Lee, Chin-Fei | EA/NA | Taiwan | Rotation and Proper Motion of Protostellar Jets |
| 2011.0.00735.S | Lim, Jeremy | EA/NA | Taiwan | Molecular Gasdynamics in the Central Elliptical Galaxy of the NGC 5044 Cool-Core Group |
| 2011.0.00399.S | Lin, Shin-Yi | NA | United States | High Resolution Spatial-Kinematic Structures of the TW Hya Disk |
| 2011.0.00397.S | Lonsdale, Carol | NA | United States | The most luminous heavily obscured, radio-intermediate, QSOs and the role of radio feedback in black hole and spheroid evolution |
| 2011.0.00131.S | Maercker, Matthias | EU | ESO | Piecing the shell together: ALMA and the detached shell around R Scl |
| 2011.0.00028.S | Mann, Rita | NA | Canada | The Effect of Extreme Environment on Protoplanetary Disks in Orion |
| 2011.0.00367.S | Mardones, Diego | CL | Chile | Outflow Entrainment in HH 46/47 |
| 2011.0.00958.S | Marrone, Dan | NA | United States | Imaging the Brightest Starbursts in the Universe |
| 2011.0.00374.S | McNamara, Brian | NA | Canada | Molecular Gas and Feedback in the Cores of Galaxy Clusters |
| 2011.0.00727.S | Moreno, Raphael | EU | France | Mapping the nitrile chemistry and dynamics of Titan's thermosphere |
| 2011.0.00779.S | Moullet, Arielle | NA | United States | Characterizing Io's atmospheric composition and circulation |
| 2011.0.00405.S | Muller, Sebastien | EU | Sweden | A survey of strong absorption lines at z=0.89 toward PKS1830-211 |
| 2011.0.00902.S | Murillo, Nadia | EA/NA | Taiwan | VLA1623B: a First Core candidate? |
| 2011.0.00268.S | Nagao, Tohru | EA | Japan | Metallicity of a Submillimeter Galaxy at z=5 |
| 2011.0.00454.S | Nagar, Neil | CL | Chile | (Why) Is CenA a source of Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays: Shock acceleration, jet and UHECR composition |
| 2011.0.00221.S | Nozawa, Takaya | EA | Japan | Detecting Cool Dust in SN 1987A |
| 2011.0.00210.S | Ohashi, Nagayoshi | EA/NA | Taiwan | Probing Formation of Keplerian Disks around Protostars |
| 2011.0.00648.S | Ohta, Kouji | EA | Japan | Molecular gas/dust and gas metallicity in star-forming galaxies at z~1.4 |
| 2011.0.00611.S | Onishi, Toshikazu | EA | Japan | Detecting high-density compact outflow from the youngest YSO in Taurus |
| 2011.0.00476.S | Orellana, Gonzalez | CL | Chile | Directly Probing Physical Processes in a H-ATLAS Selected lensed bright IR Galaxy at z~1 |
| 2011.0.00767.S | Ota, Kazuaki | EA | Japan | The [CII] Line Study of a Star-forming Galaxy in the Epoch of Cosmic Reionization |
| 2011.0.00010.S | Ott, Juergen | NA | United States | The Physics and Chemisty of Gas in Centaurus A and its Host |
| 2011.0.00115.S | Ouchi, Masami | EA | Japan | Demonstrating Early ALMA Capabilities with the Extremely Luminous Giant Starburst `Himiko' Discovered at the Redshift Frontier |
| 2011.0.00474.S | Peretto, Nicolas | EU | France | Where do massive stars get their mass from ? |
| 2011.0.00724.S | Perez, Laura | NA | United States | The origin of transitional disks: grain growth or dynamical clearing by planets? |
| 2011.0.00340.S | Qi, Chunhua | NA | United States | Searching for H2D+ in the disk of TW Hya |
| 2011.0.00403.S | Rangwala, Naseem | NA | United States | Mapping the Distribution of Warm Molecular Gas in Arp 220 |
| 2011.0.00217.S | Rathborne, Jill | OTHER | Australia | Globular cluster formation: caught in the act |
| 2011.0.00259.S | Ricci, Luca | EU | ESO | Testing the models for the inital steps toward planet formation: the evolution of solids in brown dwarfs disks |
| 2011.0.00319.S | Richard, Johan | EU | France | Low luminosity millimeter survey behind a strong lensing cluster |
| 2011.0.00064.S | Riechers, Dominik | NA | United States | Clustered Massive Galaxy Formation around a z=5.3 Submillimeter Galaxy |
| 2011.0.00539.S | Riechers, Dominik | NA | United States | Lensing Properties of the Brightest Herschel-Selected Submillimeter Galaxies |
| 2011.0.00408.S | Rodriguez, David | CL | Chile | Resolving a Cool, Compact Disk Around a Nearby, Late-Type Star |
| 2011.0.00510.S | Sahai, Raghvendra | NA | United States | Probing the Molecular Outflows of the Coldest Known Object in the Universe: The Boomerang Nebula |
| 2011.0.00604.S | Sakai, Nami | EA | Japan | Tracing Evolution of Warm Carbon-Chain Chemistry in L1527 |
| 2011.0.00777.S | Sakai, Nami | EA | Japan | Imaging the Peculiar Carbon-Chain Chemistry of IRAS 15398-3359 in Lupus |
| 2011.0.00656.S | Sakai, Takeshi | EA | Japan | Deuterium Fractionation in the IRDC clump G34.43+00.24 MM3 |
| 2011.0.00531.S | Salyk, Colette | NA | Salyk, Colette | Discovery and characterization of disk winds from a newly discovered class of protoplanetary disks |
| 2011.0.00733.S | Schreiber, Matthias | CL | Chile | Towards a global understanding of circumstellar disk evolution |
| 2011.0.00097.S | Scoville, Nick | NA | United States | Evolution of the ISM Contents of Massive Galaxies z = 2.2 to 0.3 |
| 2011.0.00175.S | Scoville, Nick | NA | United States | Merging IR-Luminous Galaxies -- Arp 220 and NGC 6240 |
| 2011.0.00294.S | Smail, Ian | EU | United Kingdom | More than LESS: The first fully-identified submillimetre survey |
| 2011.0.00742.S | Stacey, Gordon | NA | United States | ALMA Imaging of the Star Formation Process at the Historic Peak |
| 2011.0.00612.S | Stierwalt, Sabrina | NA | United States | An Off-Nuclear Starburst in the Luminous IR Galaxy IIZw96 |
| 2011.0.00061.S | Takano, Shuro | EA | Japan | Imaging study of molecules in the nearby galaxies NGC 1068 and NGC 253: Effects of active galactic nucleus and starburst on the shock/dust related molecules SO, HNCO, CH3OH, and CH3CN |
| 2011.0.00236.S | Tan, Jonathan | NA | United States | The Dynamics of Massive Starless Cores |
| 2011.0.00768.S | Usero, Antonio | EU | Spain | Star formation rates enhanced by dynamical effects: the extreme starburst in NGC1614 |
| 2011.0.00635.S | van Dishoeck, Ewine | EU | Netherlands | Do dust holes in transitional disks still contain cold gas? |
| 2011.0.00863.S | Walsh, Catherine | EU | United Kingdom | Tracing the Dust Destruction Zone in Protoplanetary Disks via SiO Rotational Line Emission |
| 2011.0.00206.S | Wang, Ran | NA | United States | Dust continum and [C II] line emission from quasar host galaxies at z~6 |
| 2011.0.00101.S | Wang, Wei-Hao | EA/NA | Taiwan | Shedding Light on Distant Starburst Galaxies Hosting Gamma-ray Bursts |
| 2011.0.00363.S | Webb, Tracy | NA | Canada | The ISM in a z = 2 Normal Galaxy on Sub-kpc Scales |
| 2011.0.00307.S | Weiss, Axel | EU | Germany | Tracing the dense, star forming gas and AGN feedback in z=2-4 galaxies via the shape of the CO line SED. |
| 2011.0.00957.S | Weiss, Axel | EU | Germany | The ALMA-SPT Redshift Survey |
| 2011.0.00876.S | Whitmore, Brad | NA | United States | The Antennae: A Luminous Stellar Nursery |
| 2011.0.00142.S | Wilner, David | NA | United States | Imaging the Birth Ring of the AU Mic Debris Disk |
| 2011.0.00133.S | Woitke, Peter | EU | Austria | Can old protoplanetary disks be as tiny as 10AU? |
| 2011.0.00182.S | Xu, C. Kevin | NA | United States | ALMA Exploration of Nuclear Regions of Nearby LIRGs -- Warm Molecular Gas Distribution Down to 100 pc |
