MMA Imaging and Calibration Group

Agenda/Minutes for meeting Tuesday, 29 April 2003 at 4:00 pm EDT.

Date: 29 April 2003

Time: 4:00 pm EDT (2:00 pm Socorro, 1:00 pm Tucson)

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

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 News - Wootten

News from my point of view.
The next Science IPT telecon will be Tuesday May 6 at 17:00 CET/11:00 AM/15:00 UT. Ewine wrote: "Please examine a brief summary of action items from our Science IPT telecon on April 15. See also Agenda for accompanying material. Can everyone please send comments on the data rate recommendation and on the draft of the auxiliary devices by Monday April 29 at the latest? Many thanks to those who have done so already."
My notes  from 25 April ANASAC Meeting.  See also Agenda.
See also ASAC Agenda. for their 28 April Meeting.

 
 
  • Project News -
  • ALMA Board met today by telecon; I'm all ears...
  • Tentative next ANASAC Meeting 2003 Friday May 23
  • Tentative next ASAC Meeting 4 June
  •  May 26/27 ALMA Board face-to-face (Europe)
  • ALMA Week 2 June Victoria   Details.WVR Agenda V2
  • November 3/4 ALMA Board face-to-face (S.A. groundbreaking?)

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    Spectral Purity and other items -- Wootten


    The ANATAC has requested advice on a number of items; please see Darrel's inquiry.
    My understanding of John's concern about the ALMA LO and its proposed test are here.
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    Illumination Offsets -- Holdaway


     See Mark's report on illumination offsets tests and milestones. Recall that in ALMA Memo No. 402, Mark showed that offsets in the illumination of the dishes by the feeds would result in a phase graident in voltage patterns, a serious problem for high dynamic range mosaicing. Mark notes that a simple correction algorithm can remove essentially the entire effect of the voltage pattern phase gradient. In the report, he explores how to measure the offsets and to apply corrections to the (u,v) coordinates.
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    Calibration - Butler


    ALMA Week schedule discussion--see link above.

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    AIPS++ - Myers

     
    Uh...what now?
     
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    Configuration - Holdaway

     

    Large Configuration: Progress Report.

      Version E of the configuration document (ALMA-90.02.00.00-001-D-SPE) the distance between pads is set to a distance of 15.15m. Last chance for comments!!!
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    Site Characterization - Radford


    Any news???


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    Other


    Reading Materials:
    ALMA Project Plan v1.0
    ALMA Bilateral Agreement

    most recent quarterly report  (No. 2)
    even more recent quarterly report (No. 3 dated 2003-Mar-31)



     
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     SMA News...
     
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    Upcoming Meetings - Wootten

    JUN 27-27, 2003 2003 IEEE AP-S INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM AND USNC/CNC/URSI NATIONAL RADIO SCIENCE MEETING

    JUL 13-26, 2003 Twenty-Fifth General Assembly of the IAU Abstracts due NOW.

    JUL 27/25, 2003 IAU Symposium (271): Star Formation at High Angular Resolution, Sydney, Australia. Tyler Bourke is a co-chair of the scientific organizing committee. Good opportunity to show ALMA capabilities.

    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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