ALMA Science IPT Telecon

Phone Meeting 2004-May-18

	ALMA Science IPT Telecon Phone Meeting 2004-May-18

Connection Details

Call date: 2004-May-18 (Tuesday)
Call time: 14:30 UT 1030EDT 0430CEST
Duration: 1 hr
USA Number: 877-874-1919
Outside USA Number: +1-203-320-9891
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. Last Meeting Action items
- Action items from various sources:
Last month's Science telecon:

ACTION: Wootten get with DTE on satellite. Wilson wrote an email introducing the topic to him. Done
ACTION: CSV plan and canvass. Laing provided the plan to Japanese colleagues. Done
ACTION: John will work on the antenna location plan In process, draft availasble (see below)
ACTION: Science IPT telecon date change to third Tuesday. 20 Apr Stay constant in local time, change in UT. Done

SE telecon. ACTION: [Wootten]- what is the required IDR for a single image. Bring this up in the science telecon.
ACTION: Science IPT, [Laing]- produce short memo on origin of spec on differential gain stability. [N.B. ALMA Tech Requirement No. 264 Differential gain stability between channels of a polarization pair 5e-4 at 300 sec TBC allocation to FE and BE are each 0.707 of this value 320 23] Holdaway has written protomemo.

ALMA Week: [Wootten]Provide detailed values on solar filter to FEND by 30 April Late
[Laing] Develop a requirement for stitching together the BEND 2 GHz sections for overlap. In process
[Conway, Laing] Choose antenna stations where first antennas will be located for first fringes. 4-30-04 [See CSV document]
[with SE] Decide when antennas are handed over to Commissioning (after 1st light or 1st fringes?) 6-01-04
[Wootten & Co] Write System Review Report Done

MILESTONES: all leaders of level 3 milestones with upcoming deadlines to report on status. The Milestones, with project number, are available updated for March.

New Business -- Agenda

ALMA Calendar

7 April -- ASAC Telecon Agenda
10-11 May -- ASAC Face-to-face meeting, Cambridge, England
14-15 May -- ALMA/NA Meeting, U. of Maryland Agenda
18 May -- Science IPT Telecon
25-26 May -- ALMA Backend Review, Arcachon, France
27 May -- ALMA Board Telecon
7-8 June -- Band 7 PDR, Grenoble, France
15 June -- Science IPT Telecon
22-23 June -- ALMA Board Meeting, Garching
8-10 July -- Software IPT CDR2, Denver Colorado
24 September -- ALMA/EU Meeting, Garching
11-12 October -- AMAC, Florence Italy

LAMA Memo Series has inhabitants!

- Project news/updates (Wootten and Wilson)
   * ASAC Meeting -- Strawman Agenda for Face-to-face Meeting (Wilson)
             * Presentations available on almaedm--Meetings--2004--ASAC
     * JAO Positions (Wootten)
     * ALMA Science Workshop Meeting 14-15 May 2004. Agenda Abstract Book (Wootten)

Reports from Subgroups
   -1 Project Scientists (see above)
     * System Review 1-3 March 2004 during mini-ALMA week Report.
     * ALMA/NACommunications Newsletter
     * Operations Group and the Operations Plan
* Please read and comment upon CCB Agenda Items

-2. Configurations (Conway)

A draft version of John's memo on ALMA antenna position calibration is available. Please note particularly the diagrams at the end.
A draft version of the Spec document of ALMA first science configuration

-3 Calibration (Mangum)
      - The Requirements and Specifications August 03 Version (Wootten)
      - Draft Bandpass Calibration Memo. from Bacmann and Guilloteau (2 of 3 reviews, both favorable, received)
                  - Very drafty Calibration plan.
      - Plan for further tests of amplitude calibration devices:   Progress? (Martin-Pintado)
      - Please see WVR report to the ASAC at the ASAC presentations section of almaedm.
      - Please see the report from Berkeley on the absolute calibration via gain horn experiment.

     -4.Design Reference Science Plan (Hogerheijde )
          Some new responses have been received. Explanation of one person's considerations in ALMA Memo No. 492 by Carilli.
            See link.

-5 Imaging (Gueth, Holdaway)
- IDR What Image Dynamic Range should we place a requirement on for a single ALMA field? Or should we? Request from SE.

   -6. SSR (Lucas?)
       - Minutes of last week's meeting. Data rate memo.

    -7 Site (Radford, Nyman)
         -   ICDs

-8 Operations, Science Commissioning and Verification (Laing)

- Draft ALMA Commissioning and Science Verification

Plan CSV Group -- Laing, Emerson, Chandler, Lucas, Mangum, Shepherd, Wilson, Wootten

-9 Any Other Matters Arising

Date of next phone meeting

2004, June 15th 14:30 UT

Upcoming Meetings

Upcoming Meetings - Wootten

ALMA Workshop May 14-15, University of Maryland

Exploring the Cosmic Frontier: Astrophysical Instruments for the 21st Century 18-21 May 2004 Berlin, Germany

From Spitzer to Herschel and Beyond: The Future of Far IR Space Astrophysics 7-10 June 2004 Pasadena, California

International Symposium on Molecular Spectroscopy 59th Meeting - - June 21-25, 2004

Cores, Disks, Jets & Outflows in Low & High Mass Star Forming Environments: Observations, Theory and Simulations July 12-16, 2004 Banff, Alberta, Canada

The Cool Universe: Observing Cosmic Beginnings 2004 October 4-8 Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria, Valparaiso, Chile

New Windows on Star Formation in the Cosmos 2004 October 11-13 University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland

Dusty and Molecular Universe 27-29 October 2004, Paris

Protostars and Planets V 24 - 28 October 2005 Hilton Waikoloa Village, The Big Island, Hawaii