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Agenda/Minutes for meeting Tuesday, 18 November at 4:00 pm EDT.

Date: 18 November 2003

Time: 4:00 pm EST (2:00 pm Socorro, 2:00 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  has an inhabitant!

 
Correlator CDR:   Final Report (doesn't seem to be on ALMAEDM...)
 "The committee recommends that the Science IPT clarify the conditions under which the spectral dynamic range of 40 dB be required.  Since the ALMA correlator is a 2-bit correaltor, the dynamic range can only be achieved if the narrowband power into the receiver is less than a certain small fraction of the total receiver power.  The Science IPT must quantify what the maximum total narrowband power is into the receivers, as fraction of the total receiver noise power."    

   Some simulations may be needed to determine imaging artifacts possibly caused by phase and amplitude errors in overlap region of
                                     tunable filter option for correlator.
 

Project news/updates (Al )
          Announcements ( Al)  Welcome to new European Project Scientist Tom Wilson and Instrument Scientist Robert Laing; thanks to Ewine as outgoing EuPS
           Board Meeting (Al)  Chile joins project officially.  
           Groundbreaking (Al, Simon) Photos
           Science IPT face-to-face meeting?  ALMA at upcoming meetings -- 2004 ALMA meetings

Discussion Items - (Wootten)

 Calibration (Butler)       -  Calibration plan DAR and milestones.   (Bryan)
                 
                Plan for further tests of amplitude calibration devices:  Jack Welch tells me that he and Gibson are working on the 3mm horn and expect first tests
                  ca. April 2004.
 Stability telecon,  13 Nov 2003.  Summary.
Antenna  specs.  A summary of comments from Al, Mark and ??
Data Format for ALMA.  Comments please.
ATF Frontends  used for an ALMA calibrator first look. (Holdaway)
Phase error simulation in fast switching.  (Holdaway)
Total Power detector (at the antenna) specifications. (Wootten)  This may have gain stability problems, and it may only be able to dump at 2msec timescales.
Correlator setup.  (Wootten)

Science IPT activities (Wootten )

Upcoming Meetings - Wootten

 October 13-14, 2003 : The Search for Other Worlds
 

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Travel

 Oh, always

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