MMA Imaging and Calibration Group
Agenda/Minutes for meeting Tuesday, 19 August 2003 at 4:00 pm EDT.
Date: 19 August 2003
Time: 4:00
pm EDT (2:00 pm Socorro, 1:00 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
- 25 July Ceremony of Concession, San Pedro de Atacama
- 26 July--Level 1 Milestone reached--construction begins in Chile
- 25 August ANASAC face-to-face meeting, Chicago O'Hare
- 1 Sep--ESAC face-to-face meeting, Madrid
- 5-6 September ASAC Meeting Hamilton, Ontario, Canada Charges
- 17-20 September, Richmond. Mini-ALMA Week.
- 13 October AMAC Meeting proposed, Europe Dwingeloo?
- 3-4 November ALMA Board, Santiago
- 6 November ALMA Groundbreaking
- NA Science IPT Bimonthly Report to the
NSF. Comments, corrections, additions please!
News - (Wootten)
ALMA Project Scientist
Position
ANASAC Draft
Agenda
Front End Upgrade
Path
Configuration Movie
Progress...
Discussion Item - (Wootten)
ALMA Receiver stability
note
by Richard Hills (Richard Hills)
Simulations
draft (Holdaway)
Please read ALMA Memo No. 466. Also of interest is Larry D'Addario's
suggested plan
for gain stability testing for Front End and Back End Assemblies.
Measurements
of Band 6 were discussed.
My comments
on this subject. A telecon was held at 1430 UT on 15 July; notes
were made. A further telecon is planned for 1430 UT on 27 August.
GB Spectrometer measurements (Wootten)
Science IPT activities (Wootten
)
- Science Requirement document (Butler)
- ALMA Science Requirements document under construction provides
a succinct flowdown from the Project Plan; Preface to Engineering Requirements
document nearing completion.
- Configuration (Holdaway)
- Extended Array (Holdaway) Document ALMA-90.02.00.00-002-A-SPE
submitted.
- Move Sequence
(Conway) Antenna Configurations - Specifications and Requirements, ALMA-90.02.00.00-001-F-SPE
APPROVED.
- ACA
feedback from Science IPT needed. (Hasegawa)
- Calibration Calibration
(Butler)
- Calibration
plan and milestones (Bryan)
- ATF (Mangum) Alcatel striptease scheduled this week!
- Site characterization (Radford)
- Public Relations. New images, a new movie, display at IAU,
new brochures all to debut shortly. Logo under design.
Upcoming Meetings - Wootten
SEP 22-26, 2003 4th
Cologne-Bonn-Zermatt-Symposium on The Dense Interstellar Medium in Galaxies
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Travel
Oh, always
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