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ALMA Science IPT Telecon
Phone Meeting 2004-February-10
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Connection Details
- Call date: 2004-February-10 (Tuesday)
- Call time: 15:00
UT 1000EST 0400CET
- Duration: 1 hr
- USA Number: 877-874-1919
- Outside USA Number: +1-203-320-9891 NOTE NEW NUMBER
- Passcode: 185064
- Leader: Al Wootten
Old Business
The enhanced Agenda
from last month's meeting is available. Science IPT notes
from last month's telecon.
- Action items from various
sources:
Last Meeting:
Action items
ACTION: WOOTTEN. Distribute antenna specification documentation.
Done.
ACTION: WOOTTEN AMAC
Dates. The AMAC meeting will be held 11-12 March at the NTC in Cville.
ACTION: Wootten. Resolve
phase jitter spec with SE.
ACTION: All. Comments
on Science
Requirements document. Many received from D'Addario, new revision
in progress.
ACTION: Bacmann. Passband
Calibration section of Calibration Plan. Status:?
ACTION: Wootten, Wilson.
Finish Calibration document. In progress.
ACTION: Gueth, Holdaway.
Review of Data Format. Review received from Gueth, transmitted
to Software IPT.
ACTION: Conway. Plan
for first antenna station locations, Early Science. Emails exchanged.
MILESTONES:
all leaders of level 3 milestones with upcoming deadlines to report on status.
The Milestones,
with project number, are available updated for November 7.
New Business -- Agenda
ALMA Calendar
- 30 Jan -- ANASAC Telecon. Agenda.
- 4 Feb -- ASAC Telecon. Agenda.
- 18-20 February -- Selected IPT Leads attend meeting in Japan
- 26 February -- ALMA Board telecon 2004
Board Meeting Dates
- 1-5 March-- ALMA System Review/mini-ALMA Week, near Munich
- 11-12 March -- AMAC Meeting, Charlottesville NTC
- 30 March -- 1 April ALMA Board meets, Socorro, N. M.
- 10-11 May -- ASAC Face-to-face meeting, Cambridge, England
- 14-15 May -- ALMA/NA Meeting, U. of Maryland
- 25-26 May -- ALMA Backend Review, Arcachon, France
- 22-23 June -- ALMA Board Meeting, Europe
- Project news/updates (Wootten
and Wilson)
LAMA Memo Series has
inhabitants!
*
NRC President (and ALMA friend) Arthur Carty appointed to new post of national
science advisor to Canadian Prime Minister Martin, effective 1April.
* ALMA Construction present at expected level in new
FY2005 US Budget request; ALMA Operations funding begins.
* Operations group continues refinement of plan
* which includes an action item to identify modes for
Early Science (Wootten)
* Science
commissioning and verification plan (Laing)
* ASAC -- meeting date set, charges
from the Board
* new System
Design document.
Problem areas: 90 degree phase switching.
Change
request written by Lucas. (Lucas)
WVR level of correction
of phase jitter. Agreement
between Science IPT and SE (Richer/Hills)
Square law detector --
2ms integration time (Holdaway)
Reports from Subgroups
-1 Project Scientists
(see above)
System Review 1-3 March 2004 during mini-ALMA
week Agenda.
-2 Calibration
(Mangum)
- The Plan August
03 Version (Wootten)
Note that this is a major component of our miniALMA
week activity
Calibration plans and goals (Wootten)
- Absolute
Gain Horn (Mangum)
- bandpass (Aurore, Stephane)
- Plan for further tests of amplitude calibration
devices: Progress? (Martin-Pintado)
-3.Design Reference Science Plan (Wilson,
Hogerheidje )
DRSP
-- report
for Full Science Operations. Links available on ALMA websites for ESO
and NRAO now.
DRSPES -- planning for Early Science
Operations
-4 Imaging (Gueth,
Holdaway)
- Global Warming and
ALMA --Lama Memo
No. 804 (Holdaway)
-5. SSR (Lucas)
- Report on SSR activities (Robert)
- Data Format Review. Data
Format for ALMA. (Gueth, Holdaway)
-6. Configurations
(Conway)
- Early Science Array configurations (Conway)
-7 Site (Radford,
Nyman)
- Site instrumentation
telecons held.
-8 Any Other Matters Arising
NRAO ALMA Communications Newsletter
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Strawman
format for comments.
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