ALMA Science IPT Telecon

Phone Meeting 2003-May-13


Connection Details


Old Business

The enhanced Agenda from last month's meeting is available.

- Action items from before the previous meeting:

    - Calibration:

*** All to send comments on document on "Science examples for calibration"
to Stephane and Bryan by April 30

*** Comments on Stephane-Welch plan for absolute calibration

- Action items from previous meeting:

    - Calibration     - SSR
*** All to send comments on data rates recommendation to John by April 29. John to finish recommendation and send to SSR.


    - Operations/Design Reference Mission working group (someone from WG)
*** Project scientists to finalize composition working group on Design Reference "Mission" (wait for selection new European PS and overall PS?). Stephane and Ewine to circulate proposed plan of action.

*** Al to check distribution line/continuum projects at CSO; Ewine at JCMT

*** Mark to simulate science losses in continuum images if receiver gain stability specification of 1E-4 in 1 second is not reached. Note: preliminary estimates by FE IPT indicate that it may be exceeded by as much as a factor of 10.

    - Configuration:

*** Mark to finalize Y+ design, taking ASAC comments into account

   - MILESTONES: all leaders of level 3 milestones with upcoming deadlines to report on status.  The Milestones, with project number, areavailable.

New Business -- Agenda

Calendar

- Project news/updates (Guilloteau)

Reports from Subgroups

    - Others (outreach, ...)
         -ALMA LO tests (Wootten)

    - Calibration (Butler)
          a) Plan
          b) Ancillary devices
          c) ATM availability

     -ALMA Week discussions (Wootten, Guilloteau)
        I. Participants
        II. Subjects discussed (Agenda)
         a) Calibration  See provisional agenda above.
         b) WVR  See provisional agenda above.
         c) Other items.

    - Configurations (Conway)
    - SSR (Lucas)

    - Site (Nyman)

    - Imaging (Gueth)

Matters Arising

 

Upcoming Meetings

JUN 27-27, 2003 2003 IEEE AP-S INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM AND USNC/CNC/URSI NATIONAL RADIO SCIENCE MEETING

JUL 13-26, 2003 Twenty-Fifth General Assembly of the IAU Abstracts due long ago.

JUL 27/25, 2003 IAU Symposium (271): Star Formation at High Angular Resolution, Sydney, Australia. Tyler Bourke is a co-chair of the scientific organizing committee. Good opportunity to show ALMA capabilities.

SEP 22-26, 2003 4th Cologne-Bonn-Zermatt-Symposium on The Dense Interstellar Medium in Galaxies