The main mission of the Nordic ARC node, based at Onsala Space Observatory, Chalmers University of Technology (Sweden), is to provide ALMA support services to astronomers in the Nordic (Denmark/Finland/Iceland/Norway/Sweden) and Baltic (Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia) countries, and in general to help and encourage the Nordic/Baltic community to make the best use of ALMA.

General support services

- Face-to-face support for proposal preparation, observing setups, projects status follow-up, data reduction (CASA software) and help with access to archives.

- For access to software to help plan ALMA observations and submit a proposal, go to the Science Portal.

- Specific questions about ALMA can be directed to the online ALMA helpdesk (also accessible through the Science Portal).

- To organize a visit to the Nordic ARC to help prepare a proposal or reduce data, please fill in a request through the helpdesk

- Please contact us at nordic-arc @ chalmers.se, should you have any questions.

Specialist Support

Each of the European ARC nodes in addition to general support services to its region offers specialist scientific and technical expertise to the whole European ALMA community. At the Nordic ARC this expertise includes imaging techniques such as multi-frequency synthesis and polarimetric imaging, optimised self-calibration and astrometry.

Chalmers University of Technology which hosts the Nordic ARC node has an active with an interest in many areas of ALMA enabled science including ISM studies, star-formation, evolved-stars, nearby galaxies, AGN and high-redshift galaxies. Astronomers at Chalmers/Onsala also specialise in developing data analysis and modelling tools for astrochemistry and radiative transfer. Scientific collaborations between astronomy group/ARC node scientists and the wider community are welcome.