MMA Imaging and Calibration Group
Agenda/Minutes for meeting Tuesday, 2 December at 4:00 pm EDT.
Date: 2 December 2003
Time: 4:00
pm EST (2:00 pm Socorro, 2:00 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
- 24-25 November -- AOC meeting on antenna CFT/RFP
- 2 December -- NA Caucus Meeting
- 4 December -- ALMA Board telecon 2004
Board Meeting Dates
- 8 January -- AAS Town Hall
- 29 February -- ALMA System Review
- 24-25 May (tent) -- ALMA/NA Meeting, U. of Maryland
- 25-26 May -- ALMA Backend Review, Arcachon, France
ASAC
Report is available. ASAC
Telecon tomorrow.
Correlator CDR: Final
Report (doesn't seem to be on ALMAEDM...)
"The committee recommends that the Science IPT clarify the conditions
under which the spectral dynamic range of 40 dB be required. Since the
ALMA correlator is a 2-bit correaltor, the dynamic range can only be achieved
if the narrowband power into the receiver is less than a certain small fraction
of the total receiver power. The Science IPT must quantify what the
maximum total narrowband power is into the receivers, as fraction of the
total receiver noise power."
Some simulations may be needed to determine imaging artifacts
possibly caused by phase and amplitude errors in overlap region of
tunable filter option
for correlator.
- Project news/updates (Al
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Congress approves NSF Budget,
increase of 5%.
Groundbreaking Photos
Article
Speeches.
Science IPT
face-to-face meeting? March at mini-ALMA week?
SE Meeting
ALMA at upcoming
meetings -- 2004 ALMA meetings
AAS
Town Hall Who will be at AAS and would like to help?
U. Md. meeting
Pan-ALMA
Meeting.
Operations.
Commissioning. Verification. Early Science.
Discussion Items - (Wootten)
Calibration
(Butler)
- Calibration
plan DAR
and milestones. (Bryan)
Problem
areas phase, passband calibration, singledish...
Plan for further tests of amplitude calibration devices: Gibson/Welch
exploration of absolute calibration. Discussion
New developments on Gain stability. Al's
note. Charles' note. Phase stability.
Antenna specs. A summary
of comments from Al, Mark Note from Darrel on focus.
Data
Format for ALMA. Comments please.
Phase error simulation in fast switching; protomemo.
(Holdaway)
Science IPT activities (Wootten )
ALMA SSR meeting comments (anyone?)
ALMA System
Design Document -- D'Addario's proposed phase changes (Holdaway)
Configuration (Wootten)
ATF (Mangum)
Site characterization (Radford)
Public Relations. New IPT has
been formed and meets regularly--web. Note new new logo (since last
week) at top of page.
Upcoming Meetings - Wootten
Protostars and
Planets V 24 - 28 October 2005 Hilton Waikoloa Village,
The Big Island, Hawaii
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Travel
Oh, always
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