The ALMA Primer Series is an effort to help inform astronomers about topics in interferometry and specifically how to get the most out of their own ALMA data. You can find a complete, categorized list of all our videos at the ALMA Science Portal, at almascience.nrao.edu/tools/alma-primer-videos.
Our team has members from National Research Council of Canada (NRC Herzberg), the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) and from universities across North America.
The series is not yet complete; new videos are in production covering a broad range of topics covering radio interferometry, calibration, imaging, and more.
What has confused you? Have you ever had a hard time finding information on, or understanding a certain concept? Let us know so that we can try to cover it! Please feel free to give us feedback and suggestions for more videos by commenting on existing videos, or sending us an email at AlmaPrimerVideos@gmail.com.
Thanks! Our goal is primarily to teach astronomers how to use the ALMA Observatory, but this isn't you I still hope you manage to get something out of them.
The primary audience for this video series is optical/infrared astronomers who may not be familiar with radio interferometry concepts but who want to use the ALMA Observatory for their science. We hope to provide basic interferometry concepts, observing and data reduction guidance, and so on, in relatively short, easy-to-watch segments. As a secondary goal we hope that our videos will be used as a supplement to undergraduate/graduate astronomy and physics courses. Try watching our (vintage) intro to interferometry video to get some context for the rest of the series.
At last, I'm beginning to understand why the merchant starship of the sentient plants in Vernor Vinge's "Fire upon the Deep" book was named "Out of Band II."
We are working on two "practical examples" videos, one where continuum is the primary goal and one where spectral lines are the focus, and plan on releasing them this summer.
I'm afraid I have no idea what (or who) "3 Blue 1 Brown" is. It's a delightful and insightful video that we decided could not be improved upon, so we asked for (and received) permission to include it in this series.
Hi! I would suggest you use the ALMA Helpdesk off of the Science Portal (help.almascience.org) or the NRAO Helpdesk (help.nrao.edu). Both NRAO and ESO run workshops from time to time. You can find out about those through the Helpdesk as well.
Thanks, Lucas. We are actively working on the next batch of videos during the fall. I'll take your suggestion about explaining how correlations are done to the working group.
@@lucasmarquis4530 That I can't predict. We aim to produce 2-3 videos per year; one is due for release in the next couple of months and two others are in various stages of completion. I'll ask around to see if there's anyone at NRAO who's interested in roughing out a script.
