MMA Imaging and Calibration Group

Minutes for meeting Tuesday, 26 Mar 2002 at 3:30pm EST.

Date: 26 Mar 2002

Time: 3:30 pm EST (1:30 pm Socorro, 1:30 pm Tucson)

Phone: (434)972-7268 (CV SoundStation Premier Conference phone 2nd floor).

Past minutes, etc on MMA Imaging and Calibration Division Page
 

Agenda


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News. -Wootten

News from my point of view. I'll give a report on the ASAC meeting, AEC meeting, ACC meeting, and what we saw in Japan.
The December 2001 - January 2002 progress report of the Imaging and Calibration Division has been submitted to management. Which means it is time for the Feb-Mar 2002 report next week! Please submit a description of your travails to me.
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Meetings This Week-Wootten

The ASAC meets on next Wednesday by telecon. There may be a configuration telecon on April 5.
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Other Items-Wootten


  The AAS is meeting in Albuquerque in June. A visit to the VLA is planned. However, we have been unable to determine who at NRAO is involved with that in order to coordinate display of the ALMA antenna. What shall we do for the meeting? Right now, the plan is to leave the display as-is and have a booklet of four pages detailing all the progress toward construction made by ALMA so far.
 
 
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Project Book Status -- Wootten


Holdway has produced a draft Chapter 13 for comment.
Baars report of Mar 2002 on status:  Revisions have been received for Chapters 4, 5, 7, 9, 10 and 12 and v5.5 has been issued in a limited edition.
 It is not planned to print this version. Rather, it should be considered an intermediate version towards a more complete Version 6 which we hope to issue during the summer. You are cordially invited to read the PB and in particular to scrutinise those sections which interface to the part of your own responsibility.
  Please report any error you discover to Jaap, so we can make corrections.
  In particular, an old version of receiver work at OSO somehow made its way into the previously reported version; this has now been fixed.
  Version 6 will in particular contain updated versions of the Backend Chapter, based on the PDR during the ALMA Week, and of the Configuration and Calibration chapters.
        4  Antennas (Napier & Andersen)                 2001-02-06
        5  Front Ends (Wild, Payne et al.)              2001-08-01
           Receiver Optics (Carter & Lamb)              2000-11-28
        7  Local Oscillators (D'Addario)                2001-02-05
        9  (Sramek, Baudry, Brundage & Jackson)         2001-01-30
      10 Correlator (Webber, Escoffier, Broadwell,    2001-02-07
           Greenberg & Baudry)
      12 Computing (Glendenning, Raffi and others)    2001-01-29
           (also available as HTML )

S. Oliver is working on uniformity.  Version 5.5 containing these chapters will be issued 28 Feb 2002.  Version 6, with all updates, will
be out by midyear.  Backend will await PDR during ALMA Week for update.  Baars will redo Chapter 2.

         3  Calibration
           1. General Calibration Issues (Holdaway &
           Wootten)                                                                                 2001-02-06
1. General Calibration Issues (Guilloteau, Holdaway & Wootten) (alternative as HTML ) 2001-02-06

This chapter will be revised in the light of the June PDR last year. Mark has proposed a plan of action.

           2. Calibration Hardware (Payne, Vaccari et
           al.)                                                                                          2001-02-02

2. Calibration Hardware (Payne, Vaccari et al.) (alternative HTML ) 2001-02-02

This needs input from IRAM on the semi-transparent vane, in my opinion. It should have something about the optical pointing telescopes also. It should also include WLM material from Cambridge, IMHO. However, I think it is inevitable that some items mentioned in 3.1 won't be addressed yet in 3.2--FTS for instance.

        13 Data Analysis: Imaging Requirements          2000-04-24
           (Holdaway & Wootten)
Mark has proposed changes to this chapter.

        14 Site Characterization (PDF)                           2001-08-01
                                            (Radford has revised this .)
        15   Array Configuration (Min Yun)
                                                Conway will be rewriting this.
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Meetings upcoming -- ALMA Week? -- Radford
Schedule as of 11 March


 SOME INFO ON LOGISTICS
  1. Additional activities
  Our Spanish colleagues Jos=E9 Cernicharo and Rafael Bachiller are planning a presentation of the ALMA Project to a wider audience. A public lecture is planned in the Granada Science Museum as well as a late afternoon session for Spanish scientists, engineers and industry. Some of you might be asked to give a short presentation at this last event.
  The IRAM Granada staff is helping with the local organisation. We expect to organise a diner in one of Granada's restaurants, Mirador de Morayma with a breathtaking view of the surroundings. Also we will try to arrange for a guided evening tour of the Alhambra.
  3. Logistics
  IPT leaders are requested to pass the following information to each participant.
  The meeting will be held in Hotel Saray in downtown Granada. This is a modern hotel with sufficient conference rooms to accommodate our needs. IRAM has made a block reservation for a special price. Each participant should make his reservation directly with the hotel, mentioning the ALMA Week. The Reservation form is attached. The deadline for the special rate is 21 March.
  If you encounter problems with your hotel reservation, get in touch with Javier, who will try to help you.
  Hotel Saray Calle Tierno Galvan 4 Granada, Spain
  fax number +34 958 12 91 61 phone number +34 958 13 00 09 email hotelsaray@h-santos.es
  Prices.- Double room 128,74 EUR ( breakfast buffet included ) single room 103,49 EUR ( breakfast buffet included ) Plus 7% VAT.
  Deadline 21th March 2002,
  mention: Congreso Astronomia ALMA.
  Granada is served by Iberia Airlines; there are several flights daily both from Madrid and Barcelona. =46or some (European) participants Malaga might be an attractive alternative. It is about a 1.5 hour drive from Malaga to Granada. There is also a regular bus connection from Malaga bus station to Granada .
 
  Instituto de Radioastronomía Milimétrica (IRAM)
  Avenida Divina Pastora 7, Núcleo Central
  E 18012 Granada (Spain)
 
  Granada telephones: (+34) 958 8054 54 (switchboard)
  (+34) 958 8054+extension (see below)
  Granada fax: Fax (+34) 958 222 363
 
  Rainer Mauersberger +61 mauers@iram.es Station Manager
  Javier Lobato +64
  lobato@iram.es Administrator
 

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Upcoming Meetings - Wootten

MAR 7/8 Second Workshop on New Concepts for Far-Infrared and Submillimeter Space Astronomy Wootten, Radford attending
  See ALMA abstract.

MAR 19/21 ASAC FACE-to-Face Meeting, Tokyo Mangum, Wootten attending

MAR 26/29 Thirteenth International Meeting on Space Terahertz Technology, Maxwell Dworkin Building, Harvard Campus (organized by Ray Blundell and Edward Tong)

Mar 29 ALMA meeting on SIS mixers and IF amplifiers

APR 11-13 DEBRIS DISKS AND THE FORMATION OF PLANETS: A SYMPOSIUM IN MEMORY OF FRED GILLETT, Meeting at NOAO-TucsonMangum attending

APR 18-20 ACC Meeting, Venice Wootten attending

APR 23-27 ALMA Week, Granada Wootten, Radford, Myers, Mangum attending

MAY 6-9 Astrophysics of Life Space Telescope Science Institute Wootten attending

JUN 18-21 Scientific Frontiers in Research on Extrasolar Planets at Carnegie Institution

AUG 17/24 URSI General Assembly, Maastricht, the Netherlands Butler attending

AUG 22/28 SPIE Symposium on Astronomical Telescopes and Instrumentation, Waikoloa, Hawaii. Brown, Wootten attending

SEP 9-13 Winds, Bubbles and Explosions

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Travel

 Oh, always

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