UK ARC People

UK ARC Staff and Contact Details

UK ARC Manager

Tom Muxlow (JBCA, twbm@jb.man.ac.uk)

• Extragalactic star-formation
• AGN and jets
• Interferometry techniques

UK ARC Node PI & Lead Scientist

Gary Fuller (JBCA, G.Fuller@manchester.ac.uk)

• Star formation
• Molecular clouds
• Astrochemistry

ARC Support

Adam Avison (JBCA, aavison@jb.man.ac.uk)

• Massive star formation, masers, interferometry.

George Bendo (JBCA, george.bendo@manchester.ac.uk)

• Dust and gas-to-dust ratios in nearby galaxies (elliptical, spiral, irregular)

Rob Beswick (JBCA, RBeswick@manchester.ac.uk)

• AGN and star-formation in Nearby galaxies
  

Anthony Holloway (JBCA, ajh@jb.man.ac.uk)

• Provision and management of computational resoources

Jaime Pineda (COFUND fellow based at JBCA, Jaime.Pineda@manchester.ac.uk)

• Star formation, astrochemistry and gas kinematics, synthetic observations of simulations.

Anita Richards (JBCA, amsr@jb.man.ac.uk)

• Masers, mass loss from evolved stars, star and planet formation, interferometry

Expertise

All support staff can give assistance with any aspect of ALMA proposal preparation and data reduction, such as

• Use of ALMA software and tools
  
• Estimating brightness temperatures on ALMA scales
• Chosing the best available spatial resolution for your goals and estimating whether single dish data are required (when implemented)
• Simulations and interferometry imaging fidelity
• Self-calibration and high dynamic range imaging
  
• Devising a mosaicing strategy
• Devising spectral configurations to include the required lines at suitable resolutions, making best use of the available sub-bands
• Advising on the array sensitivity at different wavelengths and atmospheric conditions
• Observing time-variable sources or multi-frequency observing (not fully available in the first year or so)
• Polarisation observations (not fully available in the first year or so)
• Data reduction
  
• ALMA calibration and basic imaging will eventually be pipelined; initially staff will reduce the data to a similar stage.
• ARC staff will support users who require partial or full re-reduction of the data, e.g. making cubes at a different spectral or spatial resolution or adjusted to the velocity of a different line.
• Requests for help are coordinated through the EU ARC Helpdesk and if you have a particularly specialised query then the node with the most expertise can be consulted, e.g. the Czech node for Solar observing.
  

If your project has particularly complex aspects, a member of staff with the most relevant experience will be assigned to help you.

Address 

UK ARC
Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics
Alan Turing Building
University of Manchester
Manchester
M13 9PL
UK
Phone: +44 (0)-161-275-4243
Fax: +44-(0)-161-275-0486
Email: alma@jb.man.ac.uk

UK ALMA Project Scientist

      John Richer (Cambridge)

      Brian Ellison (RAL, STFC)

      Ian Heywood (Oxford)