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Pointing Calibration Memos:

ALMA Memo 373: Relative Pointing Sensitivity at 30 and 90 GHz for the ALMA Test Interferometer (Holdaway & Mangum)
ALMA Memo 366: A Telescope Pointing Algorithm for ALMA (Mangum)
ALMA Memo 317: Comparison of the Pointing Error Effect on the Image Quality for Two Configurations and Two Source Types (Kogan)
ALMA Memo 288: An Optical Pointing System for the ALMA Prototype Antennas (Mangum)
ALMA Memo 232: A Simple Method to Improve Pointing of the MMA Antennas (Lugten)
ALMA Memo 189: Reference Pointing of LSA/MMA Antennas (Lucas)
ALMA Memo 178: Effects of Pointing Errors on Mosaic Images with 8m, 12m, and 15m Dishes (Holdaway)
ALMA Memo 159: Wind Velocities at the Chajnantor and Mauna Kea Sites and the Effect on MMA Pointing (Holdaway, Foster, Emerson, Cheng, & Schwab)
ALMA Memo 95: Imaging with Known Pointing Errors (Holdaway)
ALMA Memo 63: Pointing Errors and the Possibility of Pointing Calibration (Holdaway)
ALMA Memo 62: An Independent Simulation of Imaging Characteristics of a Millimetre Array, With and Without a Single Large Element, and an LE Pointing Correction Algorithm (Emerson)
ALMA Memo 54: Simulations of Primary Beam Truncation and Pointing Errors with the MMA (Braun)
ALMA Memo 44: The Size of the Central Element: Pointing Considerations (Cornwell)

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Modified on 2004-Jun-23 11:59:53 EDT
Author: Jeff Mangum