MMA Imaging and Calibration Group

Minutes for meeting Tuesday, 19 Feb 2002 at 3:30pm EST.

Date: 19 Feb 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. AEC meeting of 13 Feb 2002.  ACC meeting of 19 Feb 02.
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Meetings This Week-Wootten

None.  ASAC meeting agenda near finality.
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Project Book Status -- Wootten

Baars report of 13 Feb 2002 on status:  Revisions have been received for Chapters 4, 5, 7, 9, 10 and 12.
 
        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)
No changes are needed to this chapter

        14 Site Characterization (PDF)                           2001-08-01
                                            (Radford has revised this but Baars did not mention that.)
        15   Array Configuration (Min Yun)
                                                Conway will be rewriting this.
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Meetings upcoming -- ALMA Week? -- RadforD

 

 

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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

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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