SMA OBSERVER CENTER
 

Current A-ranked Projects

A-ranked projects with tracks in the queue or complete
Project IDP.I.TracksTitle (hover for abstract)
2024B-H001 Adwin Boogert15 Physical conditions toward icy massive young stellar objects
2024B-S003 Joel Kastner2 Understanding the 3D Structures of Ring-like Planetary Nebulae: SMA CO Mapping of NGC 6871 and NGC 6563
2024B-S008 Xing Pan4 What's the role of core-scale magnetic field in the CMZ?
2024B-S019 Eric Koch7 Revealing the resolved molecular gas across the M81 group
2024B-S024 Joseph Michail1 SMA Continued Participation in Simultaneous Monitoring with JWST and Chandra of Flaring from the Galactic Center’s Supermassive Black Hole
2024B-S031 Garrett "Karto" Keating6 Polarimetric VLBI for the 2025 Event Horizon Telescope Campaign
2024B-S032 Anna Ho1 Millimeter-wavelength Monitoring of a Galactic Nova
2024B-S036 Arielle Moullet1 Thermal Studies of Near-Earth Asteroids: SMA campaign #3
2024B-S039 Alex Akins4 An SMA Spectral Survey of Venus' Mesosphere
2024B-S043 Bo Huang9 Connecting magnetic fields from core scales to envelope scales
2024B-S044 Thushara Pillai2 VEX Follow up Towards A Compact Source near SgrA*
2024B-S051 Ian Rabago2 DDT: Long-Term Thermal Monitoring of a Polar Protoplanetary Disk
2024B-S054 Jakob den Brok2 DDT: AY191 project – Targeting the Merger System Arp 299

B-ranked tracks with successful observations:
Project IDP.I.TracksTitle (hover for abstract)
2024B-A001 Chia-Ying Chung1 Grain growth efficiency in compact protoplanetary disks
2024B-A005 Jo-Shui Kao1 Exploring the Magnetic Field Structure of Collapsing Cores in Orion A
2024B-A010 Geoffrey  Bower5 The Black Hole Magnetosphere: High Cadence Polarimetric Monitoring of M87
2024B-S005 Melisse Bonfand1 A Spectral Line Survey of Nearby High- and Intermediate Protostars to Probe the Astrochemical Evolutionary Sequence
2024B-S012 Ayushi Parmar6 The Nature of SPIRE-dropouts in the Herschel-SPIRE Deep Field
2024B-S013 Jakob den Brok1 What drives the unusually high SFR in the elliptical+spiral pair Arp 142?
2024B-S016 Alice Booth5 Revealing the typical mass and composition of disks around intermediate mass stars
2024B-S018 Jakob den Brok2 Completing the SMA molecular line survey in the starburst M82
2024B-S019 Eric Koch11 Revealing the resolved molecular gas across the M81 group
2024B-S020 Gerrit Schellenberger7 PROBING THE HIGH FREQUENCY VARIABILITY OF NGC5044: THE KEY TO AGN FEEDBACK
2024B-S029 Ioannis Myserlis9 SMAPOL: SMA Monitoring of AGNs with POLarization
2024B-S041 Nimesh Patel1 Imaging Cold Dust around Wolf-Rayet Stars - III (copied from 2021B-S042) (copied from 2023A-S040)
2024B-S042 Kirsten Hall3 Direct, observational evidence of AGN feedback on host galaxies' molecular gas, part 3

Current or completed Large Scale Programs spanning ALL semesters:
Project IDP.I.TracksTitle (hover for abstract)
2012B-S097 Qizhou Zhang3 Star Formation in the Central Molecular Zone
2013A-S079 Michael Dunham3 (p)MASSES: (pilot) Mass Assembly of Stellar Systems and their Evolution with the SMA
2013B-S091 Eric Keto61 CMZ
2014A-S093 Michael Dunham55 MASSES: Mass Assembly of Stellar Systems and their Evolution with the SMA
2017A-S060 Garrett "Karto" Keating50 The Millimeter-wave Intensity Mapping Experiment (mmIME)
2017B-S075 Jan Forbrich100 SMA Survey of Resolved Dust and Simultaneous CO Observations of GMCs in M31
2019A-A022 Shih-Ping Lai2 Mosaic Polarization Observations towards Star-forming Cores
2022B-S046 Edo Berger30 POETS: Pursuit of Extragalactic Transients with the SMA
2022B-S047 Karin Oberg72 SMA-SPEC: the SMA Survey of Protoplanetary disks to Explore their Chemistry
2023A-A012 Seamus Clarke15 B-fields, gravity and turbulence across multiple scales - How does the relative importance of gravity, turbulence and magnetic fields impact high-mass star and cluster formation?
2024A-A008 Bovornpratch Vijarnwannaluk6 A SMA Investigation of the Evolution of ISM Density in AGN Host Galaxies