Record proposals submitted for ALMA Cycle 13!

Published: 07 May 2026
Image of an ALMA antenna on a transporter

The ALMA Cycle 13 Call for Proposals, which closed 23 April, received a record number of proposals and requested time. 1843 proposals were submitted, requesting a total of over 37,000 hours of 12m time. ALMA also received a record number of Large Proposals (48) and Joint Programmes (91), demonstrating the sustained growth in demand for ALMA observing time over the past 15 years.

Graphs showing an increasing number of submitted proposals and time requested over all ALMA cycles
Left: number of proposals submitted by cycle. Right: total time requested by cycle for the 12m, 7m and TP arrays.