ALMA Early Science Cycle 2: Outcome of the Proposal Review Process

The scientific assessment of the 1381 science proposals submitted for ALMA Early Science Cycle 2 has been completed. Seventy-eight science assessors from all over the world have evaluated the expected scientific value of these proposals. As a result, the most promising proposals of each ALMA region have been selected as those most likely to be completed using the ALMA Cycle 2 capabilities.

Principal Investigators (PIs) have been notified of the outcome of the Proposal Review Process by email.

The 353 highest-priority projects (those receiving an "A" or "B" grade from the panel review) are listed in Table 1 and their abstracts are available here. They cover a wide range of science and are distributed across the five broad ALMA science categories as shown in Figure 1.

Figure 1.

Distribution of the highest-priority Cycle 2 projects across the ALMA science categories (Category 1: Cosmology and the high redshift universe; Category 2: Galaxies and galactic nuclei; Category 3: Interstellar medium, star formation and astrochemistry; Category 4: Circumstellar disks, exoplanets and the solar system; Category 5: Stellar evolution and the Sun).

Table 1.

The columns give, in order, the proposal code, the list of PI and Co-Is, the region of the PI, and the proposal title. Abstracts are available here.