Minutes for meeting Tuesday, 26 Sep 2000 at 4:00pm EDT.
Date: 26 Sep 2000
Time: 4:00 pm EDT (2:00 pm Socorro, 1:00 pm Tucson)
Phone: (804)296-7082 (CV SoundStation Premier Conference phone).
Past ImCal minutes, etc on MMA Imaging and Calibration Division Page
"NSF is also pleased to be playing a leadership role in developing the international partnership for ALMA--the Atacama Large Millimeter Array." --remarks of Dr. Rita Colwell, Director, NSF, at the Dedication of the Green Bank Telescope, August 25, 2000.
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Agenda
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Please see Jaap Baar's memo and some discussion of the question of whether the ACA should have nutators.
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Please see Crystal Brogan's list of lines of interest for ALMA polarization work.
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Action Items 1 Aug2000
DECISION: Configurations--where are we? Next phone meeting plans...ACA/THzA?
DECISION: Implementation of 183 GHz WVR?
DECISION: Are the specs for a nutating secondary correct?
DECISION: What is the total power specification on the ALMA?
DECISION: What is the effect of 1/f noise in the HEMT amplifiers of SIS receivers upon our ability to combine total power and interferometric images into a faithful representation of the sky?
Year 2000
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May, 1-2 | Site Development Discussions | Garching, Germany |
May 15-17 | Test Interferometer Planning | Tucson, Arizona |
Jun, 12-16 | 2nd IRAM Millimeter Interferometry Summer School | IRAM Grenoble, France |
June 19-20 | Vertex Antenna PDR | Duisburg, Germany |
Jun, 20-27 | 7th Synthesis Imaging Summer School | Socorro, USA |
June 21-22 | EIE Antenna PDR | Venice, Italy |
October 13 | ACC Meeting | Paris, France |
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Travel
AW -> Socorro 20-25 May 2000 ------