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

LAMA Memo Series

Last Science IPT telecon action items

ALMA week Items mentioned by other IPTs and groups requiring Science IPT followup.
    

News - (Wootten)

    ALMA Project Scientist Position
    VLBI mode
                      Phase drift
                      Time standard 
Design Reference Science Plan - (Wootten )
        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 )

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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