ALMA Science IPT Telecon

Phone Meeting 2003-January-28

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Old Business

The Agenda from last month's meeting is available.

The NA Imaging and Calibration Group has held several meetings; agendas for those may be examined at:
  • Imaging and Calibration Home Page
    • Several presentations from the Leiden Meeting are available at ALMAEDM.

    New Business -- Agenda


    Congratulations are due Tucson engineering and to the ALMA Test Facility folks for successfully detecting the moon at 1 and 3mm in total power with the Vertex antenna 14 Jan with the evaluation receiver. This is a tremendous achievement on the road to ALMA!
    Kudos to those who helped to achieve this milestone:
    * ALMA Tucson Electronics Division
    * ALMA/US Antenna Division
    * Darrel Emerson
    * Jeff Mangum
    Moon detection traces and details are at the news release.
     - Updated Level 3 milestones from Bryan Butler: "Included are the modifications based on the calibration group telecon on December 16 and the Leiden meeting. There are still some ??? issues, both on dates and people, but most of the calibration items are at least better defined now."
     - Brief discussion of the 'non-AMAC' Meeting, and Site Infrastructure Meeting in Socorro last week.
  • Webber presented a table of Modes for the new correlator upgrade which is under investigation. Tests are under way to determine the costs of this development, but current indications are that implementation can be achieved with little cost increase, though more testing will be required.
    •  - Brief reports from subgroup leaders The Calibration subgroup leaders held a meeting in Leiden during December (See presentations, etc, above). The ASAC has provided several Science Examples for the calibration documents.

    The Configuration Group has delivered the configuration plan to the Site Group, and surveyors have staked the Chajnantor Plain. Some small adjustments to pad locations will be needed. Plan 'C' is available at ALMAEDM. For photos, please see this Configuration realization page.

    The Site Characterization Group has been working with a team from NRAO Green Bank to characterize the RFI environment at Chajnantor; a photo is shown on the above page.

    The SSR held a telecon this month. Minutes of meetings can be found at Robert's SSR page.

    The ASAC also held its telecon. Minutes of meetings may be found at the ASAC ALMAEDM page.  
      Date of next phone meeting According to the schedule the next one should be on: 2003, February 11th 16:00 UT