Imaging and Calibration Group

Minutes for meeting Tuesday, 14 Nov 2000 at 4:00pm EDT.

Date: 14 Nov 2000

Time: 4:00 pm EST (2:00 pm Socorro, 2:00 pm Tucson)

Phone: (804)296-7082 (CV SoundStation Premier Conference phone).

Past ImCal minutes, etc on MMA Imaging and Calibration Division Page

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Agenda

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News -- Wootten

ASAC. The ASAC agenda lists yesterday's intentions.

Correlator. See Hasegawa's notes at the ASAC agenda.

Receivers. See Larry's notes at the ASAC agenda.

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Site - Radford, Butler

Radford, Butler are in Morocco. My notes on the meeting with Tony Readhead are here .

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Report - Wootten

Time for another monthly report.

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Configurations

Time for another phone meeting?? New results for intermediate configurations have been obtained by Steven Heddle. See them at Steven's Lair.

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SSR ALMA Requirements - Myers, Wootten

An updated requirement list may be found at Lucas' site (including priorities as discussed in Berkeley). Comments? SSR meeting last Monday; minutes are here . See the newly revised memo on Data Rates by Scott and Myers. Robert has extended and revised the observing objects description written by Barry. Let's see your comments. See observing objects description.

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Action Items 1 Aug2000

DECISION: Configurations--where are we? Next phone meeting plans...ACA/THzA?

DECISION: Implementation of 183 GHz WVR?

DECISION: Are the specs for a nutating secondary correct?

DECISION: What is the total power specification on the ALMA?

DECISION: What is the effect of 1/f noise in the HEMT amplifiers of SIS receivers upon our ability to combine total power and interferometric images into a faithful representation of the sky?

Year 2000

January February March April
May June July August
September October November December

October, 2000

October 13 ACC Meeting Paris, France

November, 2000

Nov 6-9 ALMA Photonics/Receiver Tokyo, Japan
Nov 6 ALMA SSR Meeting Teleconference
Nov, 13 ALMA SAC Meeting Teleconference
Nov 15-16 Vertex Antenna CDR Duisburg, Germany
Nov 28-29 EIE Antenna PDR Venice, Italy

December, 2000

Dec 8 Project Book Frozen Executive Fiat

End of Second Millenium A. D.

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Travel

Butler

oct 22-29 | pasadena (annual dps meeting)

nov 3-7 | CV (readhead meeting)

nov 12-19 | marrakech, morocco (IAU site testing meeting)

Radford

nov 5-7 | CV (readhead meeting) ------