MMA Imaging and Calibration Group
Agenda/Minutes for meeting Tuesday, 23 September 2003 at 4:00 pm EDT.
Date: 23 September 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 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 Agenda
- 9 September MMAImCal meeting cancelled; please see GBT
Millimeter Science meeting over the video hookup insteak.
- 17-20 September, Richmond. Mini-ALMA
Week. Presentations.
- 2-3 October Correlator CDR Documentation
available.
- 13 October AMAC Meeting, Europe Dwingeloo
- 3-4 November ALMA Board, Santiago
- 6 November ALMA Groundbreaking
- Time for the Quareterly Report to the ALMA Board! Comments,
contributions, additions please!
News - (Wootten)
Mini-ALMA Week. Al can go over some of the presentations and
discussions which occurred while he was not bailing.
Quarterly Report to JAO and Board
due.
Discussion Items - (Wootten)
Calibration
(Butler)
- Calibration
plan DAR
and milestones; last week's telecon
agenda and minutes
(Bryan)
Contributions as on outline are due by 1 October in draft form.
Distance to Calibrators as a function of frequency (Butler,
Holdaway)
Simulations gain stability
(Mark) and FE
Measurements
Data rates discussion
(SSR)
Over-the-top
and axis non-intersection (Butler)
New Memo No. 475 (Butler)
Science IPT activities (Wootten )
- Extended Array (Holdaway) Document
ALMA-90.02.00.00-002-A-SPE submitted.
Comments? Please make them.
- Move Sequence
(Conway) Note that the four TP antennas cause some problems in
defining the resequencing. One solution is to assume that they
will be assimilated into the ACA. Ewine and I recommended doing
that for now.
- Order of construction--inner pads last.
- ATF (Mangum)
- Site characterization (Radford)
- Public Relations. Unknown.
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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