MMA Imaging and Calibration Group
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
- 14-15 November SSR Face-to-face, AOC
- 21 November -- Target date for CFT/RFP Antennas
- 24-25 November -- AOC meeting on antenna CFT/RFP
- 4 December -- ALMA Board telecon 2004
Board Meeting Dates
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 )
- ALMA SSR meeting comments (anyone?)
- ALMA System
Design Document -- D'Addario's proposed phase changes (Holdaway)
- Configuration (Wootten)
- Pad costs. Foundation exploration begun (NA sites).
- ATF (Mangum)
- Site characterization (Radford)
- Public Relations. New IPT has been formed and meets regularly.
Upcoming Meetings - Wootten
October 13-14, 2003 : The Search for Other
Worlds
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Travel
Oh, always
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