MMA Imaging and Calibration Group

Date: 5 Mar 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

Meetings This Week-Wootten

Project Book Status -- Wootten

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)
Mark has proposed changes to this chapter.

        14 Site Characterization (PDF)                           2001-08-01
                                            (Radford has revised this .)
        15   Array Configuration (Min Yun)
                                                Conway will be rewriting this.
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Meetings upcoming -- ALMA Week? -- Radford

Organiser Subject duration part. Day/time

AEC – plenary Project status 4 h all Tue/mor

AEC – internal Manag. Business 2 d 6 Tue/aft-Wed

Wild Front end Cartridge 2 - 3 d 25 Wed-Fri

Payne Photonics 0.5 d 20 Tue/aft

Sramek Backend PDR 2 d 25 Wed-Thu or Fri

Glendenning Software 2 d 15 Tue/aft-Thu/mor

Lucas SSR 2 d 15 Thu/aft-Sat/mor

Guilloteau/Wootten Calibration 0.5-1 d 10 Thu/mor

Hofstadt Site 2-4 h 10 Fri/mor

Radford Configuration 2-4 h 10 Fri.aft

Mangum – AEG Antenna Test planning 2 h all Sat/mor

AEC – plenary Closing Summary 2 h all Sat/mor-aft

Tan SE&I with DH/TL 0.5 20 Tue/aft

Tan SE&I with SubSysEng 0.5 12 Sat/mor

Bachiller/Mauers Public session 3 h all Wed. 16-19 h
 
 
 

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Upcoming Meetings - Wootten

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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