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ALMA Science IPT Telecon
Phone Meeting 2004-September-21
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Connection Details
- Call date: 2004-September21 (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 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
- 21 Sept -- ALMA/NA Telecaucus
- 21 Sept -- ALMA Science IPT Telecon
- 23 Sept -- ESAC face-to-face meeting, Garching
- 23 September -- ALMA Board Telecon
- 24 September -- ALMA/EU Meeting,
Garching
- 27-28 September -- ASAC face-to-face meeting, Charlottesville
- 29 Sept - 1 October -- face-to-face IPT Leads Meeting, Charlottesville
- 4-8 October -- The Cool Universe: Observing Cosmic Beginnings
Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria, Valparaiso, Chile
- 11-12 Oct -- AMAC Meeting, Florence, Italy
- 11-13 Oct -- New Windows on Star Formation in the Cosmos University
of Maryland, College Park, Maryland
- 18-19 Oct -- PDR for the Tunable Filter Bank card; Bordeaux
- 27-29 Oct -- Dusty and Molecular Universe Paris
- 2-3 Nov -- ALMA Board Face-to-face Meeting, OSF, near San Pedro
de Atacama
- 15 Nov -- AMAC & ASAC Reports due to Board
- 2 December -- ALMA Board Telecon
- 5-7 Jan 2005 -- UNSC URSI Boulder meeting Commission J
- 11 Jan 2005 - ALMA Town Meeting, AAS San Diego
- 27 Jan 2005 -- ALMA Board Telecon . Dates
for 2005.
- 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)
- John's memo No. 503 on ALMA antenna position calibration is
available. Discussion on wiki
page.
-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 Verification
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.