Millimeter Astronomy

Introduction to Millimeter/Sub-Millimeter Astronomy (T.L. Wilson).- 1 Introduction.- 2 Some Background.- 3 Theory of Receivers.- 4 Practical Receivers.- 5 Filled Aperture Antennas.- 6 Single Dish Observational Methods.- 7 Interferometers and Aperture Synthesis.- 8 Continuum Emission from mm/sub-mm Sources.- 9 Spectral Line Basics.- 10 Line Radiation from Atoms.- 11 Emission Nebulae, Radio Recombination Lines.- 12 Overview of Molecular Basics.-  13 Astronomical Applications.- References.- Star Formation with ALMA (S. Guilloteau).- 1 Introduction.- 2 Dust as a Probe of Star Formation.- 3 Using Molecules.- 4 Prestellar Cores.- 5 Class 0.- 6 Outflows.- 7 Protoplanetary Disks.- 8 High-Mass Stars.- 9 Nonstandard Observations.- 10 Conclusions: The promise of ALMA.- References

About the Authors:

Thomas L. Wilson was on sta at Max-Planck-Inst. f. Radioastronomie from 1969-2004. During this time, he was sent to Arizona as Director of the Sub-mm Telescope Observatory (1997-2002). After this, he was Project Scientist (2004-6), Associate Director (2006-8) and at European Southern Observatory, and subsequently Senior Scientist at ALMA (Atacama Large Mm/sub-mm Array), from Feb 2009 to March 2010. From April 2010 to December 2015, he was at the Naval Research Laboratory, then the NSF Division of Astronomical Sciences, working in the Spectrum Management Unit. Since December 2017 he has an emeritus position with the Max-Planck-Institute for Radioastronomie in Bonn.Stéphane Guilloteau is "Directeur de Recherche de classe exceptionnelle at CNRS" in Bordeaux. He graduated from the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Paris. He was recruited at CNRS in 1980, just after the creation of an Astrophysics Group at Université de Grenoble. In 1987, he became project scientist of the IRAM interferometer, and later, deputy director of IRAM. He worked on the conception and design of ALMA as Project Scientist between 1999 and 2003. He then joined the Université of Bordeaux. In 1989, he received the "Young Scientist" prize of the Société Française d'Astronomie et d'Astrophysique.