ALMA Science IPT Telecon

Phone Meeting 2003-September-16 


Connection Details


Old Business

The enhanced Agenda from last month's meeting is available, but not yet notes.

Action items from before the  previous meeting:
- Calibration
ACTION -- BB: Calibration reference document is not available outside the Science IPT.  This should be linked on ALMAEDM for reference purposes.This has been distributed to the calibration group.  Telecon  15th of   September  (yesterday).  1500 UT.

- SSR
Action --
see below; discussion on data rates followed report from Richer.

- Operations/Design Reference Mission working group (someone from WG)
Action -- Design reference mission is well along; Ewine reported on it to the ASAC.
 

ACTION items from 10 June:

         Bandpass calibration document. Bacmann, Guilloteau
     - MILESTONES: all leaders of level 3 milestones with upcoming deadlines to report on status.  The Milestones, with project number, are available updated

for September 12.

New Business -- Agenda

Calendar

Project news/updates (Al)

Reports from Subgroups

   -1 Project Scientists (see above)
       ASAC -- Meeting report; presentations on line (Richer)
        Operations ANASAC, ESAC, ASAC Discussions.  Agenda for mini-ALMA Week.  (Ewine)
         ALMA Science Requirements Document -- update of Project Book Chapter 2 (Al)
         ALMA System Design Document -- D'Addario's proposed phase changes

    -2 Calibration (Butler)

      -  Calibration plan and milestones; yesterday's telecon agenda and minutes (Bryan)
      -  bandpass (Aurore, Stephane)

     -3.Design Reference Science Plan (Ewine )
               DRSP -- ASAC report from Ewine (Ewine)

    -4 Imaging (Gueth, Holdaway)         
         - report on activities (Frederic)
         - simulations gain stability (Mark) and FE Measurements

   -5. SSR (Lucas)

       - Data rates discussion (John)
       - Report on SSR activities (Robert)

   -6. Configurations (Conway)

    -7 Site (Radford, Nyman)
         - report on activities

     -8  Any Other Matters Arising

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