Minutes for meeting Tuesday, 15 May 2001 at 4:00pm EST.
(Agenda in black, comments from notes on meeting (minutes) in blue.
Date: 15 May 2001
Time: 4:00 pm EDT (2:00 pm Socorro, 1:00 pm Tucson)
Phone: (804)296-7082 (CV SoundStation Premier Conference phone).
Past ImCal minutes, etc on MMA Imaging and Calibration Division Page
ALMA - Tom Lehrer
The loveliest girl in Vienna
Was Alma, the smartest as well.
Once you picked her up on your antenna,
You'd never be free of her spell.
Her lovers were many and varied
From the day she began her - beguine.
There were three famous ones whom she married,
And God knows how many between.
Alma, tell us,
All modern women are jealous,
Which of your magical wands
Got you euros and dollars and yens?
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AAS Meeting -- I will be there Sunday, Monday and Tuesday. Brochures and a new display will be there. I am still trying to find pieces of ALMA for display.
News - Paris, EIE, etc.
The charge from the EACC to the EAEC is: "Prepare a draft recommendation on the definition of the three-way ALMA, for discussion at the next EACC meeting 12-13 June 2001. The recommendation should define a three-way project with a value per partner for Phase 2 of 220 M USD (FY2000). The recommendation should also consider what could be accomplished with an additional 10 percent funding."
Our (Science and Imaging) budget is purely people and travel, with very little for the site monitoring. The goal at the meeting is an increase in our funds for the total project by 1.5.
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ASAC The next ASAC meeting will be held 17 May at 1415UT. The proto-agenda has links to documents. We will discuss them also.
Please see my comments on SSB/DSB operation of ALMA.
SSB/DSB Gems from the Memo Series:
Thoughts from Project Scientists:
(2a) - Bands 1, 4 and 8 Science Cases -- Richer, Yun, Yamamoto
Please read the Science Case for Band 1.
Please read the Science Case for Band 4.
Please read the Science Case for Band 8.
(2b) - Future Correlator Science -- Bachiller, Scoville, Yamamoto
Please read the case from Baudry's group.
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The deadline for the reservations for the calibration meeting
has passed. Time to start assessing where we are and getting documents.
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We should discuss these and other items soon lest our thinking diverge.
I propose a telecon to occur a few days after the conclusion of the
Chajnantor campaign, specifically 1400 UT on 18 May.
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Publication is expected September 2001.
The
synergies of ALMA with the GSMT Conference will be in DC on 22 May
Andrew Blaine
Geoff Blake
Todd Boroson
Bryan Butler no
Chris Carilli
John Carpenter
Arjun Dey
Alyssa Goodman
Mark Gurwell yes
Michiel Hogerheijde no
James Lowenthal
Jeremy Mould
Joan Najita
Luis Rodriguez no
Jeff Valenti
Dave Wilner no
Min Yun
We would like to invite you to participate in a one-day
workshop at the AURA Headquarters. The workshop will be held
on Tuesday, May 22nd from 9:30am to 4:30pm. The goals of the
workshop are:
(1) delineating potential synergies between ALMA and a 30-m
O/IR telescope (The Giant Segmented Mirror Telescope, GSMT,
described in the decadal survey)
(2) defining issues for more detailed studies aimed at
deeper understanding/quantification of those synergies
(3) planning a broader community-based workshop to be held
in winter, 2001. The workshop will be small (fewer than 15
invitees), informal, and focused on defining next steps
rather than reaching definitive conclusions
Travel information and instructions will be forwarded in an
email from Kathy English sometime this week. NOAO will
reimburse travel and incidental expenses for all
participants.
To ensure a successful and scientifically stimulating
meeting, we are asking each participant to prepare and
circulate 5 days in advance of the meeting a BRIEF
presentation summarizing from her/his perspective a key
science problem for which joint GSMT and ALMA observations
would significantly enhance solution. Specifically, we would
like you to summarize:
-- the goals of the science programs (broadly stated)
-- key objectives
-- key measurements: with ALMA; GSMT
-- potential complementarity with NGST; SIM; other space
facilities
-- identification of ALMA/GMST synergy
-- issues for discussion or study
We very much hope that you will be able to participate.
Please indicate your availability both to us and to Kathy
English (kenglish@noao.edu) at NOAO. Kathy will be
coordinating the meeting.
Comments?
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DECISION: Configurations--PDR upcoming?
DECISION: Implementation of 183 GHz WVR? 22GHz at OVRO, VLA?
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Travel
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Calibration -- All
Site News - Butler, Radford
Configuration Meeting upcoming!
Work is progressing apace. Kogan has been doing good work with the compact
configuration, including discussions with the antenna group, and should
shortly have a solid plan upon which to build the larger configurations.
Conway is at Chajnantor with the 2001 Austral Fall campaign there. Butler's
new mask has been released as ALMA Memo 364. Radford has made the new
DEM covering 51 x 51 km with either 50 m or 250 m pixels. Guilloteau,
Gueth and Pety are working on the designing the ALMA Compact Array (ACA)
configuration and ALMA configurations also.
ALMA Conference Proceedings, Synergy meeting 22 May in DC
Action Items 1 Feb2000