MMA Imaging and Calibration Group
Agenda/Minutes for meeting Tuesday, 15 July 2003 at 4:00 pm EDT.
Date: 15 July 2003
Time: 4:00
pm EDT (2:00 pm Socorro, 1:00 pm Tucson)
Phone: (434)296-7082 (CV SoundStation Premier Conference phone 3rd
floor). No Video planned...
Past minutes, etc on MMA
Imaging and Calibration Division Page
Agenda
Notes from the meeting are in this font!
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Science IPT Items - Wootten
ALMA Calendar
- 25 July Ceremony of Concession, San Pedro de Atacama
- 25 August ANASAC face-to-face meeting, O'Hare
- 5-6 September ASAC Meeting Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
- 13 October AMAC Meeting proposed, Europe
- 2-3 November ALMA Board, Santiago
- 6 November ALMA Groundbreaking
- First Week December (tentative) ALMA Week, Europe
ALMA week Items
mentioned by other IPTs and groups requiring Science IPT followup.
- Science IPT Quarterly
Report to the JAO. Comments, corrections, additions please!
News - (Wootten)
ALMA Project
Scientist Position
VLBI mode
Phase
drift
Time
standard
Progress...
Discussion Item - (Wootten)
ALMA Receiver stability
Please read ALMA Memo No. 466. Also of interest is
Larry D'Addario's suggested plan
for gain stability testing for Front End and Back End Assemblies.
Measurements
of Band 6 were discussed.
My comments
on this subject. A telecon was held at 1430 UT on 15 July; notes were
made. A further telecon is planned for 1430 UT on 27 August.
ALMA Phase stability at 950 GHz.
Science IPT activities (Wootten )
- Science Requirement document (Butler)
- ALMA Science Requirements document under construction
provides a succinct flowdown from the Project Plan; Preface to
Engineering Requirements
document nearing completion.
- Configuration (Holdaway)
- Extended Array (Holdaway) Document
ALMA-90.02.00.00-002-A-SPE submitted.
- Move Sequence
(Conway) Antenna Configurations - Specifications and Requirements, ALMA-90.02.00.00-001-F-SPE
APPROVED.
- ACA
feedback from Science IPT needed. (Hasegawa)
- Calibration summary
- Site characterization database,
stringency calculator (Holdaway)
- Public Relations. New images, a new movie, display at IAU,
new brochures all to debut shortly. Logo under design.
Upcoming Meetings - Wootten
JUL 13-26, 2003 Twenty-Fifth
General Assembly of the IAU Abstracts due NOW.
JUL 27/25, 2003 IAU
Symposium (271): Star Formation at High Angular Resolution, Sydney,
Australia. Tyler Bourke is a co-chair of the scientific organizing
committee. Good opportunity to show ALMA capabilities.
SEP 22-26, 2003 4th
Cologne-Bonn-Zermatt-Symposium on The Dense Interstellar Medium in
Galaxies
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Travel
Oh, always
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