Observations

Data products from observing projects.

ALMA program 2021.1.00690.S (PI: Dong, R.)

Gravitational instability in a planet-forming disk

Speedie et al. (2024). Nature, 632, 8028.

Target: AB Aurigae

Configuration(s): C3 + C6

Band(s): 6

Frequency support: 13CO (2-1), C18O (2-1)

Available data products: Visibilities (measurement sets), image cubes, moment maps, residual maps, VLT/SPHERE H-band image (Qphi x r2)

Tools used: CASA, bettermoments, expanding_kernel


Synthetic Observations

Synthetic data products generated from simulations.

Gravitational instability in a planet-forming disk

Speedie et al. (2024), Nature, 632, 8028.

Telescope: ALMA

Target: AB Aurigae disk analogue

Configuration(s): Like C3 + C6

Band(s): 6

Frequency support: 13CO (2-1)

Available data products: Synthetic image cubes, moment maps, model line cubes, dump files

Made using: PHANTOM, MCFOST, syndisk, bettermoments, expanding_kernel

Searching for planet-driven dust spirals in ALMA visibilities

Stevenson, Ribas, Speedie et al. (2024), MNRAS, 530, 4, 4802-4825.

Telescope: ALMA

Target: DSHARP-like disk with an embedded planet

Configuration(s): C4+C7, C5+C8 and C6

Band(s): 7, 6

Frequency support: Continuum only

Available data products: Continuum visibilities (uvtables) and images (N=132)

Made using: FARGO3D, CASA simanalyze/simobserve

Observing planet-driven dust spirals with ALMA

Speedie et al. (2022), ApJ, 930, 40 (22pp).

Telescope: ALMA

Target: DSHARP-like disk with an embedded planet

Configuration(s): C4+C7, C5+C8 and C6+C9

Band(s): 7

Frequency support: Continuum only

Available data products: Continuum images (N=576), input RT dust intensity maps (N=24)

Made using: FARGO3D, CASA simanalyze/simobserve


Code

Models, tools, useful functions, resources, etc.

ALMA Data Processing Workshop 2024

NRAO/NAASC Community Event @University of Victoria

expanding_kernel

Enhance image contrast via high-pass filtering with a radially expanding kernel