MMA Imaging and Calibration Group
Agenda/Minutes for meeting Tuesday, 17 February at 4:00 pm EST.
Date: 17 February 2004
Time: 4:00
pm EST (2:00 pm Socorro, 2:00 pm Tucson)
Phone: (434)972-7268
(CV SoundStation Premier Conference phone 2nd
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
- 4 Feb -- ASAC Telecon. Agenda.
- 18-20 February -- Selected IPT Leads attend meeting in Japan
- 26 February -- ALMA Board telecon 2004
Board Meeting Dates
- 1-5 March-- ALMA System Review/mini-ALMA Week, near Munich Agenda.
- 11-12 March -- AMAC Meeting, Charlottesville NTC
- 30 March -- 1 April ALMA Board meets, Socorro, N. M.
- 10-11 May -- ASAC Face-to-face meeting, Cambridge, England
- 14-15 May -- ALMA/NA Meeting, U. of Maryland
- 25-26 May -- ALMA Backend Review, Arcachon, France
- 22-23 June -- ALMA Board Meeting, Europe
- Project news/updates (Al
)
Most have gone off
to Tokyo...
Science IPT notes
from Last month's telecon.
Time for an NSF bimonthly report--please send me a short suggested
contribution.
ALMA
in Chile Meeting in D. C. at AUI.
Discussion Items - (Wootten)
Calibration
(Mangum)
- Very scuzzy draft Calibration
plan.
- The Specs and Reqs August
03 Version(Wootten) now in almaedm as a Change Request for PB
Chapter 3
Note that this is a major component
of our miniALMA
week activity
- Total Power calibration (Holdaway)
- Plan for further tests of amplitude
calibration
devices:
No action at IRAM--where do we go from here?
Commissioning and Verification (Wootten, Laing)
System Review --new
System
Design document. Committee: Wootten (Chair) Stephane
Guilloteau, Masato Ishiguro, Richard Hills, Michel Guelin
Bryan Butler, David Woody
System Design Review documentation in the ALMA forum
here Gee this is restricted--that seems strange!
Problem areas: 90 degree phase switching. Change
request submitted. Software agreed.
WVR level of correction of phase jitter. Agreement
between Science IPT and SE.
Square law detector - 2ms minimum integration time.
Communications Newsletter
May
Meeting
Strawman
format for comments.
Science IPT activities (Wootten )
Data
Format for ALMA. Gueth comments received.
NA-ASC Strawman
science plan.
ATF (Mangum)
Site characterization (Radford)
Public Relations.
Next
Science IPT Telecon Tuesday 9 March 1500UT.
Upcoming Meetings - Wootten
Astronomical
Polarimetry - Current Status and Future Directions March 15-19,
2004.
Waikoloa Beach Marriott, Hawaii.
Exploring the
Cosmic Frontier: Astrophysical Instruments for the 21st Century
18-21 May 2004 Berlin, Germany
Cores, Disks, Jets
& Outflows in Low & High Mass Star Forming Environments:
Observations, Theory and Simulations July 12-16, 2004
Banff, Alberta, Canada
Dusty and
Molecular Universe 27-29 October 2004, Paris
Protostars
and Planets
V 24 - 28 October 2005 Hilton Waikoloa Village, The Big
Island,
Hawaii
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Travel
Oh, always
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