Science with the Atacama Large Millimeter Array: A New Era for Astrophysics

Front Matter....Pages i-xxvii
The Atacama Large Millimeter/Submillimeter Array: overview & status....Pages 1-7
ALMA capabilities for observations of spectral line emission....Pages 9-12
ALMA capabilities for observations of continuum emission....Pages 13-14
Star and planet-formation with ALMA: an overview....Pages 15-22
High-mass star forming regions: An ALMA view....Pages 23-28
Early stages of star formation....Pages 29-34
Chemistry in low-mass star forming regions....Pages 35-40
Molecular outflows observed with ALMA....Pages 41-44
Unveiling the chemistry of hot protostellar cores with ALMA....Pages 45-51
High resolution submillimeter observations of massive protostars....Pages 53-57
High-resolution mm interferometry and the search for massive protostellar disks: the case of Cep-A HW2....Pages 59-63
The Class 0 source Barnard 1c....Pages 65-68
APEX and ATCA observations of the southern hot core G327.3-0.6 and its environs....Pages 69-72
The physical conditions in the BHR71 outflows....Pages 73-76
Interstellar deuteroammonia....Pages 77-80
Massive star formation in the southern Milky Way....Pages 81-85
SMA observations of the magnetic fields around a low-mass protostellar system....Pages 87-90
ASTE observations of the massive-star forming region Sgr B2: a giant impact scenario....Pages 91-94
A new view of proto-planetary disks with ALMA....Pages 95-100
Observational signature of planet formation: The ALMA view....Pages 101-107
Detecting protoplanets with ALMA....Pages 109-112
The study of young substellar objects with ALMA....Pages 113-117
A submillimeter view of protoplanetary dust disks....Pages 119-122
Studies of dense cores with ALMA....Pages 123-128
Chemistry in the ISM: the ALMA (r)evolution....Pages 129-134
High angular resolution imaging of the circumstellar material around intermediate mass (IM) stars....Pages 135-139
Polarization measurements of molecular lines....Pages 141-144
Molecular clouds and star formation in the Magellanic Clouds and the Milky Way....Pages 145-151
Complex organic molecules in an early stage of protostellar evolution....Pages 153-157
Revealing the “fingerprints” of the magnetic precursor of C-shocks....Pages 159-163
A new evolutionary scenario of intermediate-mass star-formation revealed by multi-wavelength observations of OMC-2/3....Pages 165-168
Scientific role of ACA for low-mass star-formation study....Pages 169-173
Planetary atmospheres with ALMA....Pages 175-181
Cometary science with ALMA....Pages 183-189
Observations of asteroids with ALMA....Pages 191-196
ALMA as the ideal probe of the solar chromosphere....Pages 197-200
The study of evolved stars with ALMA....Pages 201-207
Molecular lines from protoplanetary nebulae: observations with ALMA....Pages 209-214
Planetary nebulae and ALMA....Pages 215-221
Chemistry in the circumstellar medium....Pages 223-227
Understanding the chemical complexity in Circumstellar Envelopes of C-Rich AGB stars: the case of IRC +10216....Pages 229-233
New Plateau de Bure observations of M 1–92; unveiling the core....Pages 235-239
A massive, dusty toroid with large grains in the pre-planetary nebula IRAS22036+5306....Pages 241-244
Gas dynamics and structure of galaxies....Pages 245-251
Investigations of star formation in galaxies using ALMA....Pages 253-259
Probing the feeding and feedback of activity near and far....Pages 261-265
Chemical complexity in galaxies....Pages 267-272
Chemistry in luminous AGN and starburst galaxies....Pages 273-278
Dense gas in normal and active galaxies....Pages 279-285
Spectroscopic surveys of cosmic evolution....Pages 287-291
Observations of molecular clouds in nearby galaxies with ALMA....Pages 293-296
Luminous infrared galaxies with the submillimeter array: probing the extremes of star formation....Pages 297-302
The Galactic Center as nearby extragalactic chemical laboratory....Pages 303-306
Studying the first galaxies with ALMA....Pages 307-311
Detecting the most distant ( z >7) objects with ALMA....Pages 313-316
Redshift distribution of the submillimeter extragalactic background light....Pages 317-320
Molecular absorptions in high-z objects....Pages 321-326
Molecular signature of star formation at high redshifts....Pages 327-330
Dense molecular gas in a sample of LIRGs and ULIRGs: The low-redshift connection to the huge high-redshift starbursts and AGNs....Pages 331-335