Welcome to the UK ALMA Regional Centre
The UK ALMA Regional Centre (UK ARC) provides support for UK scientists using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA).
The UK ARC is a STFC-funded collaborative project between the University of Manchester, the University of Cambridge, the University of Oxford, the UK Astronomy Technology Centre (ATC) and the STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory. The UK ARC is hosted at the Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics (JBCA) at the University of Manchester.
For further information see the rest of this website and links or contact alma@jb.man.ac.uk for email support or to arrange a visit.
The JBCA is one of the largest astronomy groups in the UK, with 27 permanent academic staff. In addition to hosting the UK ARC, it operates the Jodrell Bank Observatory and e-MERLIN, and hosts the international headquarters for the SKA project. Active research areas in Manchester range from cosmology to planets, with particular strengths in pulsars, gravitational lensing, CMB (Planck, CLOVER), dust and astrochemistry, star formation and evolution, and solar astronomy. There is also an active instrumentation group spanning the wavelength range from sub-mm to centimetre. In addition to ALMA and eMERLIN, observational interests further include Herschel, the JCMT, the VLT and the VLTI. For more detail on our research please see JBCA Research.
ALMA links
First Fringes
