ALMA Science IPT Telecon

Phone Meeting 2003-May-13

Connection Details

Call date: 2003-May-13 (Tuesday)
Call time: 15:00 UT 1100EDT 0500CET
Duration: 1 hr
USA Number: 877-874-1919
Outside USA Number: +1-712-934-1791
Passcode: 185064
Leader: Al Wootten

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

All to send comments on auxiliary devices document to Richard and John, with copies to project scientists and Bryan, by April 29; in particular, a prioritization of the devices is needed
Bryan to update milestones with new dates, to be posted on Science IPT WWW. Ewine and Al to communicate them to JAO. Communicated; posting more problematical.
Bryan to organize agenda for calibration discussion at ALMA week. See below.

    - 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

Tentative next ANASAC Meeting 2003 Friday May 23
Tentative next ASAC Meeting 4 June
May 26/27 ALMA Board face-to-face (Europe)
ALMA Week 2 June Victoria Details.Strawman Cal Agenda WVR Agenda V2
November 3/4 ALMA Board face-to-face (S.A. groundbreaking?)

- 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)

Plan 'E' is available at ALMAEDM.
Extended Array (Holdaway) Report from site on Extended Array Design
ACA, Move Sequence (Conway)

    - SSR (Lucas)

    - Site (Nyman)

    - Imaging (Gueth)

Matters Arising

Date of next phone meeting

2003, June 10th 15:00 UT

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