Unbiased surveys of dust-enshrouded galaxies using ALMA

The ALMA lensing cluster survey (ALCS) is a 96-hr large program dedicated to uncovering and characterizing intrinsically faint continuum sources and line emitters with the assistance of gravitational lensing. All 33 cluster fields were selected from HST/Spitzer treasury programs including CLASH, Hubble Frontier Fields, and RELICS, which also have Herschel and Chandra coverages. The total sky area surveyed reaches $\sim$133 arcmin$^2$ down to a depth of $\sim$60 $\mu$Jy beam$^{-1}$ (1$\sigma$) at 1.2 mm, yielding 141 secure blind detections of continuum sources and additional 39 sources aided by priors. We present scientific motivation, survey design, the status of spectroscopy follow-up observations, and number counts down to $\sim$7 $\mu$Jy. Synergies with JWST are also discussed.Comment: 6 pages, 4 figures, Proceedings of the 7th Chile-Cologne-Bonn-Symposium: Physics and Chemistry of Star Formation, V. Ossenkopf-Okada, R. Schaaf, I. Breloy (eds.

From subversive cats to silent cows. Hidden stories of nonhuman animals in Lucas Rijneveld’s 'De avond is ongemak'

In this paper, starting from questions about the role of cats in 17th century Dutch domestic and everyday ‘stillevens’ (an aspect that has received little attention in art history) as well as ethical and philosophical reflections about animals, I would like to draw attention to the role of animals in Lucas Rijneveld’s De avond is ongemak (The Discomfort of Evening, 2018). This modern novel presents a human-centered plot about Dutch rural life, homeliness, religion, identity, and loss. The literary description of everyday farm life features multiple animals such as cows, chickens, frogs, toads, etc. Yet because of the human I-centered narration, these other living beings might easily be overlooked by a reader who would not explicitly focus on them. By considering and questioning the representations and functions of the animals in this novel, this paper aims to unravel the implicit impact of the animals on the human protagonists. The task of this zoopoetic reading, then, is to show how the language of Rijneveld’s novel might unsettle the mere decorative or object function of animals and, thus, anthropocentric logic. The focus on hitherto hidden and unknown possible stories of animal others in Rijneveld’s novel also calls for an alternative ecology of attention to more than human worlds and care of other beings