A major goal of the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) is to make accurate images with resolutions of tens of milliarcseconds, which at submillimeter (submm) wavelengths requires baselines up to ∼15 km. To develop and test this capability, a Long Baseline Campaign (LBC) was carried out from 2014 September to late November, culminating in end-to-end observations, calibrations, and imaging of selected Science Verification (SV) targets. This paper presents an overview of the campaign and its main results, including an investigation of the short-term coherence properties and systematic phase errors over the long baselines at the ALMA site, a summary of the SV targets and observations, and recommendations for science observing strategies at long baselines. Deep ALMA images of the quasar 3C 138 at 97 and 241 GHz are also compared to VLA 43 GHz results, demonstrating an agreement at a level of a few percent. As a result of the extensive program of LBC testing, the highly successful SV imaging at long baselines achieved angular resolutions as fine as 19 mas at ∼350 GHz. Observing with ALMA on baselines of up to 15 km is now possible, and opens up new parameter space for submm astronomy.

We present optical imaging and spectroscopy and HI imaging of the Virgo Cluster galaxy IC 3418, which is likely a "smoking gun" example of the transformation of a dwarf irregular into a dwarf elliptical galaxy by ram pressure stripping. IC 3418 has a spectacular 17 kpc length UV-bright tail comprised of knots, head-tail, and linear stellar features. The only Hα emission arises from a few HII regions in the tail, the brightest of which are at the heads of head-tail UV sources whose tails point toward the galaxy ("fireballs"). Several of the elongated tail sources have Hα peaks outwardly offset by ∼80-150 pc from the UV peaks, suggesting that gas clumps continue to accelerate through ram pressure, leaving behind streams of newly formed stars which have decoupled from the gas. Absorption line strengths, measured from Keck DEIMOS spectra, together with UV colors, show star formation stopped 300±100 Myr ago in the main body, and a strong starburst occurred prior to quenching. While neither Hα nor HI emission are detected in the main body of the galaxy, we have detected 4×10 7 M ⊙ of HI from the tail with the VLA. The gas consumption timescale in the tail is relatively long, implying that most of the stripped gas does not form stars but joins the ICM. The velocities of tail HII regions, measured from Keck LRIS spectra, extend only a small fraction of the way to the cluster velocity, suggesting that star formation does not happen in more distant parts of the tail. Stars in the outer tail have velocities exceeding the escape speed, but some in the inner tail should fall back into the galaxy, forming halo streams. One likely fallback stream is identified. 7 In this paper we will follow the majority of recent authors and refer to the more massive early type dwarf galaxies as dEs, and lower mass ones as dSphs. However some authors (Kormendy & Bender 2012) prefer the name Spheroidal (Sph) for more massive early type dwarfs, since they are distinct systems from giant Ellipticals, and dEs (or Sphs) and dSphs seem to be part of the same family. dE can be interpreted as "early type dwarf".

For the first time, we reveal large amounts of cold molecular gas in a ram pressure stripped tail, out to a large, "intracluster" distance from the galaxy. With the APEX telescope we have detected 12 CO(2-1) emission corresponding to more than 10 9 M ⊙ of H 2 in three Hα bright regions along the tail of the Norma cluster galaxy ESO 137-001, out to a projected distance of 40 kpc from the disk. ESO 137-001 has an 80 kpc long and bright X-ray tail associated with a shorter (40 kpc) and broader tail of numerous star-forming H II regions. The amount of ∼ 1.5 × 10 8 M ⊙ of H 2 found in the most distant region is similar to molecular masses of tidal dwarf galaxies, though the standard Galactic CO-to-H 2 factor could overestimate the H 2 content. Along the tail, we find the amount of molecular gas to drop, while masses of the X-ray emitting and diffuse ionized components stay roughly constant. Moreover, the amounts of hot and cold gas are large and similar, and together nearly account for the missing gas from the disk. We find a very low star formation efficiency (τ dep > 10 10 yr) in the stripped gas in ESO 137-001 and suggest that this is due to a low average gas density in the tail, or turbulent heating of the interstellar medium that is induced by a ram pressure shock. The unprecedented bulk of observed H 2 in the ESO 137-001 tail suggests that some stripped gas may survive ram pressure stripping in the molecular phase.

We have discovered large amounts of molecular gas, as traced by CO emission, in the ram pressure stripped gas tail of the Coma cluster galaxy D100 (GMP 2910), out to large distances of about 50 kpc. D100 has a 60 kpc long, strikingly narrow tail which is bright in X-rays and Hα. Our observations with the IRAM 30m telescope reveal in total ∼ 10 9 M ⊙ of H 2 (assuming the standard CO-to-H 2 conversion) in several regions along the tail, thus indicating that molecular gas may dominate its mass. Along the tail we measure a smooth gradient in the radial velocity of the CO emission that is offset to lower values from the more diffuse Hα gas velocities. Such a dynamic separation of phases may be due to their differential acceleration by ram pressure. D100 is likely being stripped at a high orbital velocity 2200 km s −1 by (nearly) peak ram pressure. Combined effects of ICM viscosity and magnetic fields may be important for the evolution of the stripped ISM. We propose D100 has reached a continuous mode of stripping of dense gas remaining in its nuclear region. D100 is the second known case of an abundant molecular stripped-gas tail, suggesting that conditions in the ICM at the centers of galaxy clusters may be favorable for molecularization. From comparison with other galaxies, we find there is a good correlation between the CO flux and the Hα surface brightness in ram pressure stripped gas tails, over ∼ 2 dex.