ALMA Science IPT Telecon

Phone Meeting 2004-August-24

	ALMA Science IPT Telecon Phone Meeting 2004-August-24

Connection Details

Call date: 2004-August-24 (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 Last month's Science telecon:

ACTION: John will work on the antenna location plan Still in process, draft available (see below)

SE telecon. ACTION: [Wootten]- what is the required IDR for a single image. Bring this up in the science telecon. 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 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 [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

10 August -- ASAC Telecon
11 August -- 20:50 UT Predicted peak of Perseids
10 September -- ANASAC Telecon
21 Sept -- ALMA Science IPT Telecon
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
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.

LAMA Memo Series has inhabitants!

- Project news/updates (Wootten and Wilson)
     * JAO Positions PS job description... (Wootten)
     * CCB APPROVED ALMA System Technical Requirements
     * ALMA Board Response to ASAC Report

Reports from Subgroups
   -1 Project Scientists (see also above) See ALMA Science IPT wiki page.
* 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 proto-communique

-2. Configurations (Conway)

A draft version of John's memo on ALMA antenna position calibration (July 28, item 25, dated May) is available. Please note particularly the diagrams at the end.

-3 Calibration (Wootten) Mangum will be at a procurement meeting.   See ALMA Science IPT wiki page. A Calibration page is listed under that.
      - 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)
                  - Very drafty Calibration plan.
      - Plan for further tests of amplitude calibration devices:   Progress? (Martin-Pintado)
      - Please see the report from Berkeley on the absolute calibration via gain horn experiment.

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

-5 Imaging (Stirling, Holdaway)
- A second release of the atmospheric simulation package will be available. See the readme description.

-6. SSR (Lucas?)
- Minutes of this month's meeting--only subsystem scientist reports.

-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

-9 Any Other Matters Arising

Date of next phone meeting

2004, September 21st 14:30 UT

Upcoming Meetings

Upcoming Meetings - Wootten

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

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

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.