ALMA Science IPT Telecon Phone Meeting 2004-July-20

Connection Details

• Call date: 2004-July-16 (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

SE telecon.  ACTION: [Wootten]- what is the required IDR for a single image.  Bring this up in the science telecon. Done
                   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]  See Holdaway's study. 

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; see comments at CR79 linked below, which lead to a further linked document on this subject by Comoretto, Butler and others.
                        [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

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

New Business -- Agenda

 ALMA Calendar 

• 7 July -- ASAC Meeting
• 9 July -- Amorphophallus titanum blooms
  
• 8-10 July -- Software IPT CDR2, Denver Colorado
• 16 July -- Amorphophallus titanum blooms
  
• 20 July -- Science IPT Telecon
• 3 August -- ASAC Meeting
• 5 August -- ALMA Board telecon
  
• 24 September -- ALMA/EU Meeting, Garching
• 27-28 September -- ASAC face-to-face meeting, Charlottesville
  
• 28-30 September -- miniminiALMAWeek in Charlottesville
  
• 11-12 October -- AMAC, Florence Italy
  
• 2-3 November -- Board face-to-face meeting, OSF, San Pedro de Atacama, Chile.  Dates for 2005.
  

LAMA Memo Series  has  inhabitants!

•   A draft version of John's memo on ALMA antenna position calibration is available.  Please note particularly  the diagrams at the end.
  

     -4.Design Reference Science Plan (Hogerheijde )
      - Calibration attributes of projects

    -5 Imaging (Gueth, Holdaway)  
        - IDR 

   -6. SSR (Lucas?)
       -  Minutes of last week's meeting.  Data rate memo pubished as ALMA Memo No. 501.

    -7 Site (Radford, Nyman)
         -   ICDs

   -8 Operations, Science Commissioning and Verification (Laing)

Date of next phone meeting According to the schedule the next one should be on: 2004, August 24th  14:30 UT
     

Upcoming Meetings

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
Astrochemistry throughout the Universe: Recent Successes and Current Challenges 2005 August 29 - September 2;  Asilomar, California

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