ALMA Science Advisory Committee


Draft Agenda for ASAC Telecon Weds 5 February 2003

Conference Date: February-5-2003 (Wednesday)

Here's the dial-in information for the telecon:
 CALL TIME: 10:30 AM EASTERN TIME 1530 Universal Time (Follow the link for times in other time zones as various nations change to and from summer time)
 CALL DATE:         05-February-2003  (Wednesday)
  DURATION:              1 hr
 USA Toll Free #:888-664-9857
International #: +1-630-395-0134
PASSCODE: 36215
LEADER:  Al Wootten

Agenda items:

Old Business

(1) Please approve the minutes of the December   Telecon, and also those of the January    Telecon.
 Agenda and Minutes of recent telecons may be viewed at the ALMA Sitescape documentation site.

New Business

(1)Status Report -- Van den Bout
The JAO Quarterly Report for Q4 2002 is available.

  • report on NA antenna (Mangum)

    • Congratulations are due Tucson engineering and to the ALMA Test Facility folks for successfully detecting the moon at 1 and 3mm in total power with the Vertex antenna 14 Jan with the evaluation receiver. This is a tremendous achievement on the road to ALMA!

    Moon detection traces and details are at the news release.
  • report on Euro antenna (TBD)

    • (2)Science examples for calibration (Guilloteau)
    science examples for calibration -- Wilson, Richer

    (3)Draft interim report for ACC/Board meeting February 24-25, 2003 (Wilson)

    (4)Draft face-to-face agenda (2-3 April 2003, Grenoble) (Wilson)

    (5)Report from Science IPT -- Wootten, including

  • status of configuration

  • report from calibration group

  • Current List of Level 2 Milestones for Science IPT



  • Proposed correlator upgrade -- Wootten

    • Webber has provided examples of Modes for the upgrade.

    (6)Software items -- Wilson, Schilke

  • report from Pipeline/AIPS++ working week (Wilson)
  • other software items (breakpoints issue; other questions from PDR preparation ...)

    • (7)Next telecon March 5, 2003