SKAO-ALMA Synergies in Star Formation Science
Jan Forbrich, Gary A. Fuller, Mark A. Thompson, Eleonora Bianchi, Jaime E. Pineda, Marta De Simone, Tomoya Hirota, Katharine Johnston, Steven N. Longmore, Giovanni Sabatini
astro-ph.GA, astro-ph.SR
Submitted: 2026-07-28
Comments: Published in Advancing Astrophysics with the SKAII (AASKAII), 2026 (arXiv:2606.20366). Report-no: AASKAII/Forbrich01
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
The gist: We highlight the potential for synergies between the SKA telescopes and ALMA, which will begin to be significant already with SKA Early Science.
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Abstract
We highlight the potential for synergies between the SKA telescopes and ALMA, which will begin to be significant already with SKA Early Science. Broadly within star formation science, we focus on 1) (simultaneous) time domain and variability studies (e.g., of (proto-)stars), which is systematically opening a new observing window that will enable us to better constrain the physics of extreme stellar flares and their interplay with mass accretion in young stars, 2) possibilities for complementary coverage of different transitions of molecules as tracers of the ISM (e.g., H2CO to trace density and temperature), and 3) radio recombination lines to trace ionised gas at different densities. Furthermore, we address synergies in terms of the spatial resolution of both observatories and new capabilities not only on the SKAO side but extending to the ALMA2030 wideband sensitivity upgrade.
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