MMA Imaging and Calibration Group
Minutes for meeting Tuesday, 29 Oct 2002 at 4:00pm EDT.
Date: 29 Oct 2002
Time: 4:00 pm EDT
(2:00 pm Socorro, 2:00 pm Tucson)
Phone: (434)296-7082 (CV SoundStation Premier Conference phone 3rd floor).
Past minutes, etc on MMA
Imaging and Calibration Division Page
The Science IPT Organization Chart (Image courtesy E. van Dishoeck)
Agenda
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Science IPT News - Wootten
News from my point of view.
Draft Level 3 Milestones were enhance and revised during the face to
face meeting 21 October in Tucson.
The VertexRSI antennais up!
Project News -
Dick Sramek has agreed to replace Peter Gray as the new North American Lead for the Systems Engineering IPT effective December 1, 2002. The JAO is pleased to announce the appointment of Dick Sramek as Lead of the Systems Engineering IPT.
Clint Janes, who has been head of VLA/VLBA Electronics, will be serving as
Acting Lead of the Back End IPT effective December 16, 2002.
Effective November 1, Joe McMullin will become the AIPS++ Project Manager. Athol Kemball is stepping down to join the Basic Research staff.
New Administrative assistant Dottie Kennedy at Ivy Road
New ALMA Offices on Old Ivy Road, to be occupied ca. late November
New Systems guy located at Ivy Road
Agreement between the Government of the Republic of Chile and ESO for Establishing a New Center for Observation in Chile - ALMA - signed. NSF/AUI already have an agreement, so necessary agreements are nearly complete.
ACC or ALMA Board meeting 2002 29-30 October Santiago.
ESO Workshop: Science Operations with ALMA, ESO, Garching 8 Nov 2002
ALMA Frontend/LO Reviews 18-22 November Charlottesville.
Carla Beaudet and Galen Watts of NRAO/GB conduct RFI tests at Chajnantor 3 - 20 December 2002
&
European ALMA workshop in Leiden 18-20 December
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Calibration - All
Absolute Calibration BIMA testing plans were relayed from Bryan.
Milestones
with descriptions as submitted to the JAO.
John Payne notes the interesting report in Electronics Letters
V. 38, No. 15, p 798 on a device similar to plans for the photonic calibration
device.
Update on this: John has gotten an NRAO-NTT contract to pursue this.
There will be tests at SRON, and with Moseley's Herschel device TBD.
Telecon minutes from last week.
List of the status of the reviews/reviewers. The key is: "C" - already
submitted a review; "U" = submitted an unsolicited review; "Y" = agreed
to review the memo; "N" - declined to review the memo; "NR" - no
response. Links are provided to reviews; please consult the archive for
subsequent discussions.
1 - Memo 423 - Steve Myers (Y), Matt Carter (N), Geoff Blake (Y)
2 - Memo 422 - Douglas Bock (Y), Lee Mundy (NR), Jeff Mangum (C),
Dave Woody (U) (Memo withdrawn)
3 - Memo 427 - Robert Lucas (C), Ed Fomalont (NR), Craig Walker (C)
4 - Memo 372 - Jeff Mangum (C), Larry D'Addario (C), Mark Gurwell (N),
Bryan Butler (U)
5 - Memo 415 - Jose Cernicharo (NR), Mark Holdaway (C), John Richer (Y)
6 - Memo 404 & 403 - Mel Wright (N), Dave Woody (Y&C), John Richer (Y)
8 - Memo 402 - Richard Hills (Y), Peter Napier (NR)
9 - Memo 352 - Dave Woody (C), Chris Wilson (C), Dick Plambeck (N)
10 - Memo 434 - Stephane Guilloteau (C)
so, as yet no response from:
Lee Mundy - 422
Ed Fomalont - 427
Jose Cernicharo - 415
Peter Napier - 402
and awaiting agreed upon reviews from:
Steve Myers - 423
Geoff Blake - 423
Douglas Bock - 422
John Richer - 415, 404, 403
Richard Hills - 402
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AIPS++ -
Athol is doing what we all wish to do again...basic research...and Joe
has taken over.
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Configuration - Holdaway
Please see Holdaway's Conway ASAC presentation.
The JAO approved the configuration plan.
The JAO document was entered
into sitescape, though there are several problems which Jaap noted:
The document mentions 214 pads but gives positions for 172 and states 170
in the beginning.
The table has 36 occupancy columns, while the heading reads 35
configurations. Column one is repeated.
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Meetings Past and Future - Wootten
The ASAC held a telecon on 9 October. Its report was
submitted to the ACC. It will become public tomorrow, after presentation to
the ACC.
The Site Infrastructure Review was held last week in Tucson. Al's
notes are available.
The Transporter Review was also held in Tucson. An
image
is available.
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Other
A
monthly
report for October is due to the Science IPT. A
monthly
report for the October monthly report will be submitted to the JAO by the
Science IPT. Please send materials to HAW for NA.
A bimonthly report for Aug-Sept was submitted by the NA Science IPT to
the Project Management for inclusion in its report to NSF. The next one will be
for Oct-Nov. (Whew!).
In four weeks, another report will be due the Science IPT and the JAO.
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SMA News...
Laurie Strommer is scheduled to ask a question on NPR Car Talk. Catch
her on SAT, OCT 12, at 11 am on WBUR, 90.9 MHz. [Al was listening while
driving back from Green Bank and didn't hear her...]
Novel idea ALMA should adopt Dept:
TUE, OCT 8
16:00 End-of-fiscal year celebration, M340.
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Upcoming Meetings - Wootten
JAN 5/9, 2003 201st Meeting of the American Astronomical Society
JUL 13-26, 2003 Twenty-Fifth General Assembly of the IAU
JUL 22/25, 2003 IAU Symposium (221): 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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