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Bryan Butler's ALMA science stuff

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Here is ALMA stuff related to my scientific interests...



For the ESO science case, click here (note that this file is 8.4 MB).


For the solar system part of the ALMA DRSP, click here .


Detecting stars, exozodiacal systems, protoplanetary systems, and extrasolar planets

      For the full writeup from the 2000 IAU GA click here .

      For a condensed version (submitted to the conference proceedings, which are in limbo as far as I can tell), click here .

      For the ALMA memo version of this writeup, click here .


For a writeup on planetary atmospheric science addressed by ALMA, from the ALMA science meeting in Washington, D.C., in 1999 click here .


For a writeup on other planetary science addressed by ALMA, from the ALMA science meeting in Washington, D.C., in 1999 click here .


For the initial write-up of the MMA Solar System Working Group (from the Tucson MMA Science meeting in 1995), click here .


For the last write-up (update of the above) of the MMA Solar System Working Group, click here .


For some notes on detecting redshifted CO, click here .





other good references for solar system science with ALMA (or large millimeter arrays in general):

A. Marten, Study of Planetary Atmospheres, in Science with Large Millimeter Arrays, ed. P.A. Shaver, pp. 308-315, ESO Astrophysics Symposia, Springer, 1995

J. Crovisier, Asteroids and Comets: The Prospect for Observations with a Large Millimeter Array, in Science with Large Millimeter Arrays, ed. P.A. Shaver, pp. 316-325, ESO Astrophysics Symposia, Springer, 1995



Bryan Butler
Email: bbutler at nrao dot edu
Snail mail:
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Phone: 505.835.7261

Last Modified on 2003-Dec-09