The next call for ESO ALMA development studies is expected to be announced in November 2022, with a provisional deadline in January 2023. In this call, ESO will solicit proposals for external development studies to upgrade a broad range of ALMA systems. Studies that follow the scientific priorities outlined in the ALMA 2030 roadmap are particularly encouraged, such as upgrades of the IF bandwidth by a factor up to 4 compared to the current system.

QA0+ results are now available for PIs from SnooPI in the QA0 report, which can be found in the Scheduling Blocks (SB) detailed view.

QA0+ is one of the stages of Quality Assurance (QA) which runs a simplified and rapid scripted calibration and imaging pipeline of the channel-averaged data, producing continuum-only images of the science target, phase calibrator, and check source.

The phased ALMA array is expected to participate in Global mm-VLBI Array (GMVA) observations during ALMA Cycle 9 (October 2022 - September 2023). An introduction to the GMVA+ALMA observing mode including a link to all current capabilities and restrictions is available here. 

Any GMVA+ALMA proposal must be submitted to the GMVA before the GMVA deadline on 01 February 2022. In addition, a separate proposal must be submitted to ALMA by the deadline on 21 April 2022.

The Cube Analysis and Rendering Tool for Astronomy (CARTA), is the next generation image visualization and analysis tool designed for ALMA, VLA, and SKA pathfinders. As of January 2022, the improved version CARTA 2.0 is available on the ALMA Science Archive.

The third talk of the series "ALMA recounts of cosmic conundrums" will take place February 2^nd at 14:00 CET and will be presented by Francesca Rizzo (Dawn), who will address the question: How does the dynamics of galaxies evolve over cosmic time? The talk will be broadcast live on the youtube channel of the European ARC network.

The European ARC Network invites users to an online training on image visualization and analysis with CARTA on February 18, 11:00 CET [Zoom link].

The second talk of the series "ALMA recounts of cosmic conundrums" will take place January 12th at 14:00 CET and will be presented by Eva Schinnerer (MPIA), who will address the question: What is the coupling between molecular clouds, star formation and stellar feedback? The talk will be broadcast live on the youtube channel of the European ARC network.

The Joint ALMA Observatory (JAO) will start Cycle 9 observations in October 2022. A Call for Proposals (CfP) with detailed information on Cycle 9 is anticipated to be issued in March 2022 and the deadline for proposal submission will be in April 2022.  The purpose of this pre-announcement is to highlight aspects of the CfP to assist with early planning.