Current A-ranked Projects
A-ranked projects with tracks in the queue or complete
| Project ID | P.I. | Tracks | Title (hover for abstract) |
B-ranked tracks with successful observations:
| Project ID | P.I. | Tracks | Title (hover for abstract) |
Current or completed Large Scale Programs spanning ALL semesters:
| Project ID | P.I. | Tracks | Title (hover for abstract) |
| 2012B-S097 | Qizhou Zhang | 3 | Star Formation in the Central Molecular Zone |
| 2013A-S079 | Michael Dunham | 3 | (p)MASSES: (pilot) Mass Assembly of Stellar Systems and their Evolution with the SMA |
| 2013B-S091 | Eric Keto | 61 | CMZ |
| 2014A-S093 | Michael Dunham | 55 | MASSES: Mass Assembly of Stellar Systems and their Evolution with the SMA |
| 2017A-S060 | Garrett "Karto" Keating | 50 | The Millimeter-wave Intensity Mapping Experiment (mmIME) |
| 2017B-S075 | Jan Forbrich | 100 | SMA Survey of Resolved Dust and Simultaneous CO Observations of GMCs in M31 |
| 2019A-A022 | Shih-Ping Lai | 2 | Mosaic Polarization Observations towards Star-forming Cores |
| 2022B-S046 | Edo Berger | 44 | POETS: Pursuit of Extragalactic Transients with the SMA |
| 2022B-S047 | Karin Oberg | 72 | SMA-SPEC: the SMA Survey of Protoplanetary disks to Explore their Chemistry |
| 2023A-A012 | Seamus Clarke | 33 | 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 Vijarnwannaluk | 6 | A SMA Investigation of the Evolution of ISM Density in AGN Host Galaxies |
| 2024B-S057 | Eric Koch | 32 | 1e4 Msol at 5-sigma per beam. Our GMC catalog will include clouds likely hosting massive star formation and matching the mass of the nearby Perseus molecular cloud. This is an order of magnitude higher physical resolution and mass sensitivity than the landmark PHANGS-ALMA program. Our survey will cover the inner 25 kpc of the disk, which existing single dish mapping shows is CO-bright. It will resolve H2 in >1000 molecular clouds at all evolutionary stages, producing the definitive M31 CO map and cloud catalog. When combined with 4" 21-cm HI and 2" radio continuum VLA maps from the Local Group L-band Survey, this dataset will enable a broad range of ISM and star formation science. This proposal outlines 2 key science areas enabled by connecting the HI, 12CO(2-1) and 13CO(2-1) on resolved scales with existing HST-identified clusters with measured masses and ages: (i) we will leverage matched HI and H2 tracers to test H2 formation models; and (ii) we will test how clouds are kinematically connected to their surrounding HI envelopes and benchmark the timescales on which clusters destroy and drift from their natal clouds.
Though we focus on specific science cases, this legacy data has broad applications to ISM and star formation studies.
For technical development aspects, we will provide the tools to enable OTF mapping from proposal preparation through imaging, including an online mosaicking time and planning calculator, OTF observing script generator and online tools, enhanced COMPASS capability for OTF data reduction, SMA archive support for OTF-mode observations, and GPU-enabled imaging for large OTF (and pointed) mosaics.
">A complete CO(2-1) Map of M31 with SMA OTF mapping |
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