Large Programs
Large Programs are designed to address strategic scientific issues that will lead to a major advance or breakthrough in the field. The Large Program proposal teams produce high level data products and documentation which are made available to the scientific community within one year after the final delivery of calibrated data. Large Programs are distinguished from Regular Proposals in the following ways:
- They are programs with an estimated execution time of greater than 50 hours on the 12-m Array (with or without accompanying ACA time) or 150 hours on the ACA in stand-alone mode.
- They are designed to be coherent science projects that are not reproducible by a combination of Regular Proposals.
- Investigators must deliver high level data products and relevant documentation in a manner consistent with the management plan of their proposal.
The following table contains the full list of ALMA Large Programs, as well as links to the data products delivered by the teams. The Programs are listed first by Science Category, then by Cycle number:
| Nickname | PIDs | Cycle | Title (Abstracts) | Primary Investigator - Institution | Primary Article | Team’s Site | Data Deliveries |
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Cosmology and High Redshift Universe |
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| ASPECS | 2016.1.00324.L | 4 | ASPECS: The ALMA SPECtral line Survey in the UDF - An ALMA Large Program | Fabian Walter / MPIA Heidelberg | link | link | link |
| ALPINE | 2017.1.00428.L | 5 | ALPINE: The ALMA Large Program to INvestigate CII at Early Times | Olivier Le Fèvre / Laboratoire D’Astrophysique de Marseille | |||
| ALCS | 2018.1.00035.L | 6 | ALCS: ALMA Lensing Cluster Survey | Kotaro Kohno / University of Tokyo | |||
| 2019.1.01634.L | 7 | REBELS: An ALMA Large Program to Discover the Most Luminous [CII]+[OIII] Galaxies in the Epoch of Reionization | Rychard Bouwens / University of Leiden | ||||
| CRISTAL | 2021.1.00280.L | 8 | CRISTAL: a survey of gas, dust and stars on kiloparsec scales in star-forming galaxies at z~4-5 | Rodrigo I Herrera-Camus / Universidad de Concepción | link | ||
| ASPIRE | 2022.1.01077.L | 9 | A SPectroscopic survey of biased halos In the Reionization Era (ASPIRE): A Quasar Legacy Redshift Survey | Feige Wang / University of Arizona | |||
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Galaxies and Galactic Nuclei |
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| PHANGS | 2017.1.00886.L | 5 | PHANGS-ALMA: 100,000 Molecular Clouds Across the Main Sequence: GMCs as the Drivers of Galaxy Evolution | Eva Schinnerer / MPIA Heidelberg | link | link | link |
| ALCHEMI | 2017.1.00161.L | 5 | ALCHEMi: the ALMA Comprehensive High-resolution Extragalactic Molecular Inventory | Sergio Martin / IRAM | |||
| VERTICO | 2019.1.00763.L | 7 | VERTICO: The Virgo Environment Traced in CO | Toby Brown / McMaster | link | link | |
| 2021.1.00869.L | 8 | Bulge symmetry or not? The hidden dynamics of the Far Side | Lorant Sjouwerman / NRAO | ||||
| ALMA JELLY | 2021.1.01616.L | 8 | ALMA JELLY - Survey of Nearby Jellyfish and Ram Pressure Stripped Galaxies | Pavel Jachym / Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic | |||
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ISM, Star Formation, and Astrochemistry |
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| ALMA-IMF | 2017.1.01355.L | 5 | ALMA_IMF: ALMA transforms our view of the origin of stellar masses | Frédérique Motte / CNRS | |||
| FAUST | 2018.1.01205.L | 6 | Fifty AU Study of the chemistry in the disk/envelope system of Solar-like protostars (FAUST) | Satoshi Yamamoto / Tokyo University | link | ||
| ALMAGAL | 2019.1.00195.L | 7 | ALMAGAL: ALMA Evolutionary study of High Mass Protocluster Formation in the Galaxy | Sergio Molinari / IAPS | |||
| ACES | 2021.1.00172.L | 8 | ACES: The ALMA CMZ Exploration Survey | Steven N Longmore / Liverpool John Moores University | |||
| COMPASS | 2022.1.00316.L | 9 | COMPASS: Complex Organic Molecules in Protostars with ALMA Spectral Surveys | Jes K. Jorgensen / Niels Bohr Institute | |||
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Circumstellar Disks, Exoplanets, and the Solar System |
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| DSHARP | 2016.1.00484.L | 4 | Small-Scale Substructures in Protoplanetary Disks | Sean Andrews / CfA Harvard | link | link | |
| MAPS | 2018.1.01055.L | 6 | The Chemistry of Planet Formation | Karin Oberg / Harvard | link | link | link |
| eDisk | 2019.1.00261.L | 7 | eDisk: Early Planet Formation in Embedded Disks | Nagayoshi Ohashi / ASIAA | |||
| AGE-PRO | 2021.1.00128.L | 8 | AGE-PRO: the ALMA survey of Gas Evolution in PROtoplanetary disks | Ke Zhang / U. Wisconsin | |||
| exoALMA | 2021.1.01123.L | 8 | exoALMA | Richard Teague / Harvard | |||
| ARKS | 2022.1.00338.L | 9 | The ALMA survey to Resolve exoKuiper belt Substructures (ARKS) | Sebastian Marino / Jesus College Cambridge | |||
| DECO | 2022.1.00875.L | 9 | The ALMA Disk-Exoplanet C/Onnection | Ilse Cleeves / University of Virginia | |||
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Stellar Evolution and the Sun |
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| ATOMIUM | 2018.1.00659.L | 6 | ATOMIUM: ALMA Tracing the Origins of Molecular In dUst-forming oxygen-rich M-type stars | Leen Decin / K.U. Leuven | |||