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Phone Meeting 2004-September-21


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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 previous Science telecons:

ACTION: John will work on the antenna location plan        ALMA Memo No. 503
Telecon.  ACTION: [Wootten]- what is the required IDR for a single image.    Proposed Text.

                   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 System Technical
Specifications have been approved by the CCB.  See item No. 264 and comments on page 10.

ALMA Week:  [Wootten]Provide detailed values on solar filter to FEND by 30 April .  Comments on these values?
                        [Laing] Develop a requirement for stitching together the BEND 2 GHz sections for overlap.      In process; see comments at CRE22, 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  [See CSV document]   

             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 

LAMA Memo Series  has  new inhabitants!

Project news/updates (Wootten and Wilson)
     * Draft Agreement reportedly signed.
     * JAO Positions PS job description... (Wootten) 
     * New NA Project Manager.
     * ASAC Meeting.  Agenda.
     * ALMA IPT Leads Meeting.  Agenda.
     * CCB suggested Early Science Configurations do not need official approval. 
                                  Science Specifications and Requirements to be considered soon.  Comment please immediately.
                                  System Design Description to be discussed.  Comment please immediately.
     *Tunable Filter PDR Scheduled
    *How to Tune ALMA

Reports from Subgroups

   -1 Project Scientists (see also above)  See ALMA Science IPT wiki page.
       * RFI at ALMA (Emerson)
       * News from Japan (Kawabe)
       * New ASAC Charges (Wootten)
       * ARCs.  Paul vanden Bout has begun to form the North American ALMA Science Center.
       * NRAO Communications  Newsletter
       * ESO Newsletter
     
  -2. Configurations (Conway)   -3 Calibration (Mangum)    See ALMA Science IPT wiki page, with Minutes of the 9 Sept telecon.
      - A Calibration page is listed under that. Note the Calibration Document roadmap.
      - The Requirements and Specifications August 03 Version (Wootten)
      -  Draft Bandpass Calibration Memo. from Bacmann and Guilloteau (3 of 3 reviews, favorable,  received; final version near completion)
                    -  Calibration plan.
      - Plan for further tests of amplitude calibration devices:   Progress is reported to be on schedule (Wilson or Martin-Pintado)

     -4.Design Reference Science Plan (Hogerheijde )
      - Calibration attributes of projects have been used to better define the Calibration Specifications and Requirements, under revision to reflect these data.

    -5 Imaging (Holdaway)  
        -   The ASAC requested a set of simulations to help them address their Charge No. 1.

   -6. SSR (Lucas)
      -  Minutes of this month's meeting. 
      - SSR meeting  now fixed 11-12 Oct in Garching
      - Work on ACA specific requirements started
      - Making progress on detailed requirements (per subsystem)

    -7 Site (Radford, Nyman)
         -   ICDs

   -8 Operations, Science Commissioning and Verification (Laing)

       -  ALMA Commissioning and Science VerificationSkip to reply button for entry 1. Group -- Laing, Emerson, Chandler, Lucas, Mangum, Shepherd, Wilson, Wootten, Saito, Morita, Kawabe
       -  CSV Planning underway. 
       -  Early Draft of ALMA Early Science Modes
    -9  Any Other Matters Arising
             

Upcoming Meetings

    Upcoming Meetings - Wootten

ESO ALMA COMMUNITY DAY 2004 September 24 Garching Germany

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

IAU Symposium 227 Massive Star Birth: A Crossroads of Astrophysics May 16-20 2005, Acireale, Italy

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

URSI General Assembly  23-29 October 2005; New Delhi, India;  "Mm/submm Techniques and Science" session 25-26 Oct.