Agenda for meeting Mon, 15 March 1999 at 4pm EST.
Date: Mon, 15 March 1999
Time: 4:00 pm EST (2:00 pm Socorro, 2:00 pm Tucson)
Phone: (804)296-7082 (CV SoundStation Premier Conference phone).
Past minutes, etc on MMA Imaging and Calibration Division Page
Agenda
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Let's discuss the simulation of the HDF some more. Examples are collected at: the zlines page . Avery has questioned Blitz's contention that SKA will provide a better instrument with which to measure CO at z>3.6. Ignoring linewidth for the moment, let us see a pie diagram--z as the radial coordinate with RA as the angular coordinate, with declination collapsed--showing the galaxies that will be detected in a line. Included here are all CO lines from J=3->2 (none) to J=17->16. I also include CII and NII with the assumption that they will be no brighter than the CO lines, a fairly safe assumption I believe. 352 galaxies are bright enough to be detected in some line or combination of lines in several hours integration. My earlier estimates did not take into account that many of the galaxies are at great distances; there is nearly complete coverage of z at higher redshifts, with several lines within the bandpass for an increasing number of galaxies by the higher redshifts. The diagram is at: http://www.cv.nrao.edu/~awootten/mmaimcal/hizmols.html
Note that the 12m '30th birthday meeting' will be of substantial interest to our group:
6- 9 Jun 'Imaging at Radio through Submillimeter Wavelengths' meeting in Tucson
As you may know, a meeting of U. S. and European scientists is being planned for the Fall of 1999 in Washington, D. C. The goal of the meeting is to review the scientific program planned for the joint array and how that program interacts with the science goals of other astronomical facilities expected to be operational at the time that the MMA/LSA becomes operational.
Please comment upon the proto schedule for the Science With A Large Millimeter Array meeting at:
Science topics for this suggestion were drawn from those identified by the 1997 Thaddeus committee (Task Group on Space Astronomy and Astrophysics, Committee on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Board on Physics and Astronomy, Space Studies Board, Commission on Physical Sciences, Mathematics and Applications, National Research Council) report A New Science Strategy for Space Astronomy and Astrophysics", or by McKee:
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UPCOMING REVIEW: On or before 31 May 1999 we review results from the OVRO and BIMA phase correction systems.
REVIEW: 5 Mar 99 Antenna RFP review. Mangum to represent MMA ImCal. DECISION: 183 GHz or 22 GHz phase correction?
DECISION: Is a nutating secondary necessary?
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?
MEETINGS: MAC meeting 17 Mar 1999 at noon. ------
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T. Helfer:
A. Wootten: 12-13 April 43m observing 22-30 May househubby 9 - 13 Jun CSO
J. Mangum:
M. Yun:
B. Butler:
S. Radford: