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ALMA Science IPT Telecon
Phone Meeting 2003-July-8
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Connection Details
- Call date: 2003-July-8 (Tuesday)
- Call time:
15:00 UT 1100EDT 0500CET
- Duration: 1 hr
- USA Number: 877-874-1919
- Outside USA Number: +1-712-934-1791
- Passcode: 185064
- Leader: Al Wootten
Old Business
The enhanced Agenda
from last month's meeting is available, as are Notes.
- Action items from before the
previous meeting:
- Calibration
Action -- MH to consider Science losses in continuum images. Please
note ALMA Memo No. 466.
Status: NYA.
ACTION -- AB: Standing
wave, bandpass memos to be distributed for comment at next Science IPT
meeting. Status: Standing wave memo available.
ACTION -- BB: Calibration reference document is not available outside the
Science IPT. This should be linked on ALMAEDM for reference purposes.
Status?
- SSR
Action -- Comments in to Richer by 20 May; revised data rate report due
16 June.
- Operations/Design Reference Mission working group (someone from WG)
Action -- Design reference mission needs to get off ground.
Stephane and Ewine circulated a plan of action.
This has commenced.
ACTION items from 10 June:
ALL ACA feedback by July
Declination coverage feedback due 24 June
Data rate document 16 June. Richer
Milestones: Y+ Configuration
submitted 2003-June-30 Holdaway
Science Requirements submitted 2003-June-30 Butler
Bandpass calibration document.
Bacmann, Guilloteau
Design Reference Science
Plan - Project Scientists, E. van Dishoeck, lead
Wobbler: Redesign? Imaging group,
Gueth, lead.
- MILESTONES: all leaders of level 3 milestones with upcoming
deadlines to report on status. The Milestones,
with project number, are available updated
for June 10.
New Business -- Agenda
Calendar
- 16 Jun Agreement signed between NRC and NSF
- 3 July ALMA Board Telecon
- 18 July Ceremony of concession, San Pedro de Atacama
- 25 August ANASAC face-to-face meeting, Chicago O'Hare
- 5-6 September ASAC Meeting Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
- 13 October AMAC Meeting proposed, Europe
- 3-4 November ALMA Board, Santiago
- 6 November ALMA Groundbreaking
- First Week December (tentative) ALMA Week, Europe
- Project news/updates (Wootten)
- ALMA Week followup (Al, Stephane)
Remaining
items mentioned by other IPTs and groups requiring Science IPT followup.
(see Presentations)
Reports from Subgroups
-1 Project Scientists
(see above)
-2 Calibration (Butler)
- Update on semi-transparen t vane (Jesus)
- Status calibration plan and milestones (Bryan)
- standing wave, bandpass (Aurore, Stephane)
-3.Design Reference Science Plan (Ewine, Stephane)
proposed plan
of action outline circulated by Ewine
-4. SSR (Lucas)
- Data rate report: final version? (John
R)
- Report on SSR activities (Robert)
-5. Configurations
(Conway)
- Extended Array (Holdaway) Document ALMA-90.02.00.00-002-A-SPE
submitted.
- Move Sequence
(Conway) Antenna Configurations - Specifications and Requirements, ALMA-90.02.00.00-001-F-SPE
APPROVED.
- ACA
feedback from Science IPT needed. (Hasegawa)
-6 Imaging (Gueth)
- report on activities (Frederic)
- simulations gain stability (Mark)
-7 Site (Nyman)
- report on activities
RFI report due--is it available? (Lars-Ake, Simon)
- Site characterization database, stringency
calculator (Holdaway)
- Ancillary
Devices latest draft (Hills, Richer)
-8 Others
(outreach, ...)
New PR IPT to be formed.
-9 Any Other Matters Arising
Upcoming Meetings
JUL 13-26, 2003 Twenty-Fifth General
Assembly of the IAU Abstracts due long ago.
JUL 27/25, 2003 IAU Symposium
(271): Star Formation at High Angular Resolution, Sydney, Australia.
Tyler Bourke is a co-chair of the scientific organizing committee. Good
opportunity to show ALMA capabilities.
SEP 22-26, 2003 4th Cologne-Bonn-Zermatt-Symposium
on The Dense Interstellar Medium in Galaxies