STRAWMAN Agenda for ALMA Configuration Design Review


Original A.Wootten
 

Socorro, 24-25 January 2002


Presentations must leave 5 min for questions

Start 0900 24 January

09:00-09:10 Welcome and establish plan for writing report (10 min) (Guilloteau, Wootten)
09:10-09:30 Review of PDR Report (Guilloteau)
09:30-10:20 Site Update (Radford / Butler / Sakamoto)
  • *Chajnantor topography
  • *Maps / DEMs (description, limitations, provenance) (Radford)
  • *Bore holes: results (Radford)
  • *Masks (current version) (Butler)
  • *Pampa la Bola, soil resistivity continued; the ASTE pad (Sakamoto)
  • *"Best places," ground surveys to date (Butler)
  • *Thoughts about Development (Radford)
  • 10:20-10:40 Discussion (20 min)(Guilloteau, Wootten, Panel)
  • 10:40-11:00 Break (20 min)
  • 11:00-11:20 The Compact Configuration (Kogan)
  • 11:20-12:05 Self-similar array designs for the ALMA Intermediate Configurations (45min)(Conway )
  • 12:05-12:50 A Hybrid Design for the ALMA Configurations (45min)(Webster)
  • 12:50-1:10 Discussion (20 min)(Guilloteau, Wootten, Panel)
  • 1:10-2:30 Lunch Break (80 min)
  • 02:30-3:15 Another Approach for the ALMA Configuration (45 min)(Boone)
  • 03:15-3:45 Simulations: a First Look (30 min)(Guilloteay)
  • 03:45-4:00 Discussion* (Guilloteau, Wootten, Panel)
  • 04:00-04:20 Break
  • 04:20-05:20 Discussion* (Guilloteau, Wootten, Panel)
  • 05:20-06:00 Discussion* (Closed Panel Session)
  • 07:00 Dinner
  • Start 0900 January 25

  • 09:00-09:45 Operations (Guilloteau, Wootten, Radford)
  • 09:45-10:00 Other Issues--how to converge (All)
  • 10:40-11:00 Break
  • 11:00-12:00 Discussion*(Panel)
  • 12:00-01:30 Lunch, coffee, walk through N.M. Tech
  • 01:30-2:00 Back to key questions (Wootten / Guilloteau, Panel)
  • 2:00-2:30 Meeting of the whole, reports*
  • 2:30 Adjourn at 2:30 PM
  • Reading:


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    Bryan Butler's list of relevant Memos, documents, etc:

     - memos

         memo 292
         A Possible Layout for a Spiral Zoom Array Incorporating Terrain Constraints
            John Conway; 03/00
            http://alma.aoc.nrao.edu/memos/html-memos/abstracts/abs292.html

         memo 296
         Fitting of the Largest Configuration (10 km) into the Terrain at the
            Chajnantor Site; Leonia Kogan; 03/00
            http://alma.aoc.nrao.edu/memos/html-memos/abstracts/abs296.html

         memo 297
         A study of the electromagnetic properties of the ideal Reuleaux triangle
            antenna array; Adrian Webster; (In Preparation)

         memo 317
         Comparison of the antenna pointing error effect on the image quality for
            two configurations and two source types; L. Kogan; 08/00
            http://alma.aoc.nrao.edu/memos/html-memos/abstracts/abs317.html

         memo 320
         Strawperson Donut/Doubling-Ring Configurations; M.S. Yun & L. Kogan; 08/00
            http://alma.aoc.nrao.edu/memos/html-memos/abstracts/abs320.html

         memo 338
         The Best Sites for the Compact ALMA Configuration
         Bryan Butler, Simon Radford, and Angel Otarola; 12/00
            http://alma.aoc.nrao.edu/memos/html-memos/abstracts/abs338.html

         memo 348
         A Preliminary ALMA Zoom Array Design for the Chanjnantor Site
         John Conway; 02/01
            http://alma.aoc.nrao.edu/memos/html-memos/abstracts/abs348.html

         memo 353
         Investigation of Suppression of Sidelobes by Simple Displacement of
            Clustered Groups of Regularly Spaced Antennas; Steven Heddle; 03/01
            http://alma.aoc.nrao.edu/memos/html-memos/abstracts/abs353.html

         memo 354
         Choices of Antenna Size and Number for the Atacama Compact Array
            W.J. Welch; 03/01
            http://alma.aoc.nrao.edu/memos/html-memos/abstracts/abs354.html

         memo 355
         Design of the ALMA's Compact Configuration with the Road Design First
            L. Kogan; 03/01
            http://alma.aoc.nrao.edu/memos/html-memos/abstracts/abs355.html

         memo 364
         An Antenna Location Mask for Configuration Designs for ALMA
            Bryan J. Butler; 04/01
            http://alma.aoc.nrao.edu/memos/html-memos/abstracts/abs364.html

         memo 367
         ALMA Operational Model: The SSR Committee view
            ALMA Science Software Requirements Committee; 05/01
            http://alma.aoc.nrao.edu/memos/html-memos/abstracts/abs367.html

         memo 368
         An Imaging Study for ACA; M.S. Yun; 05/01
            http://alma.aoc.nrao.edu/memos/html-memos/abstracts/abs368.html

         memo 374
         Wide Field Imagings with the Atacama Large Millimeter/Submillimeter Array
            K.-I. Morita; 05/01
            http://alma.aoc.nrao.edu/memos/html-memos/abstracts/abs374.html

         memo 375
         Coordinates of Roads, Pipelines, and Landmarks Near the ALMA Site
            Seiichi Sakamoto; 05/01
            http://alma.aoc.nrao.edu/memos/html-memos/abstracts/abs375.html

         memo 386
         ALMA+ACA Simulation Tool; J. Pety, F. Gueth and S. Guilloteau; 08/01
            http://alma.aoc.nrao.edu/memos/html-memos/abstracts/abs386.html

         memo 387
         ALMA+ACA Simulation Results; J. Pety, F. Gueth and S. Guilloteau; 08/01
            http://alma.aoc.nrao.edu/memos/html-memos/abstracts/abs387.html

         memos 389 & 390
         Radio Interferometer Array Point Spread Functions
            I. Theory and Statistics
            II. Evaluation and Optimization
            David Woody; 08/01
            http://alma.aoc.nrao.edu/memos/html-memos/abstracts/abs389.html
            http://alma.aoc.nrao.edu/memos/html-memos/abstracts/abs390.html

         memo 398
         Impact of ACA on the Wide-Field Imaging Capabilities of ALMA
            J. Pety, F. Gueth and S. Guilloteau; 11/01
            http://alma.aoc.nrao.edu/memos/html-memos/abstracts/abs398.html

         memo 405
         Unaddressed Issues for ALMA Configurations; M.A. Holdaway; 01/02
            http://alma.aoc.nrao.edu/memos/html-memos/abstracts/abs405.html
     

     - 'strawman' arrays

       Leonia Kogan's compact configuration:
          http://www.aoc.nrao.edu/~lkogan/comp.conf.1road.ps
          http://www.aoc.nrao.edu/~lkogan/comp_conf.ps

       John Conway's intermediate configurations:
          http://www.oso.chalmers.se/~jconway/ALMA/SIMULATIONS/SIM13/
          http://www.aoc.nrao.edu/~bbutler/work/alma/configurations/john-pad-posns.txt

       Adrian Webster's configurations:
          http://www.aoc.nrao.edu/~bbutler/work/alma/configurations/adrian-pad-posns.txt

       Frederic Boone's configurations:
          http://www.tuc.nrao.edu/~sradford/boone.ps.gz
          http://www.aoc.nrao.edu/~bbutler/work/alma/configurations/frederic-pad-posns.txt
     
     

     - others:

       Conway's description of our site visit in 2001dec:
          http://www.oso.chalmers.se/~jconway/ALMA/SIMULATIONS/SIM14/

       discussions on sampling theory:
          http://www.oso.chalmers.se/~jconway/ALMA/SIMULATIONS/SIM10/iregsamp.ps
          http://www.oso.chalmers.se/~jconway/ALMA/SIMULATIONS/SIM11
          http://gridlock.york.ac.uk/papers/sst3.ps
             (and references therein)

       Interferometric array design: Optimizing the locations of the antenna pads
          F. Boone; A&A; v377; p368-376; 2001
         http://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-bib_query?bibcode=2001A%26A...377..368B&db_key=AST&high=3bdec5e84802681

       Exploring the performance of large-N radio astronomical arrays
          C.J. Lonsdale, S.S. Doeleman, R.J. Cappallo, J.N. Hewitt, A.R. Whitney
          Proc. SPIE v4015; p126-134; 2000
          http://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-bib_query?bibcode=2000SPIE.4015..126L&db_key=AST&high=3bdec5e84802705

       Concept design for a low-frequency array
          J.D. Bregman; Proc. SPIE v4015; p19-32; 2000
          http://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-bib_query?bibcode=2000SPIE.4015...19B&db_key=AST&high=3bdec5e84802746

       Hybrid Composite Zoom Designs for ALMA Antenna Station Layout
          A. Webster; in 'Science with the Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA)'; 1999
          http://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-bib_query?bibcode=1999alma.confE..68W&db_key=AST&high=3bdec5e84803020

       Interferometric Array Design
          M.A. Holdaway, T.T. Helfer; SIRA II, p. 537-562; 1999
          http://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-bib_query?bibcode=1999sira.conf..537H&db_key=AST&high=3bdec5e84803057

       Cybernetic Design for Cross-Correlation Interferometers
          E. Keto; BAAS, v25, p1364, 1993
          http://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-bib_query?bibcode=1993AAS...183.4702K&db_key=AST&high=3bdec5e84803074
     

       ATA stuff:
         50-antenna sample configurations for the Allen Telescope Array
            D. Bock; ATA Memo #15; 2000
            http://astron.berkeley.edu/~dbock/papers/ata_memo_15.pdf

         350-antenna sample configurations for the Allen Telescope Array
            D. Bock; ATA Memo #21; 2001
            http://astron.berkeley.edu/~dbock/papers/ata_memo_21.pdf

         Configuration Choices for the Allen Telescope Array
            D.C.-J. Bock, M.C.H. Wright, W.J. Welch and J. Tasman, poster
            presented at the workshop "Technology Pathways to the Square
            Kilometre Array", Jodrell Bank Observatory, UK, August 2000.
            http://astron.berkeley.edu/~dbock/papers/jb2000.pdf
     

       CARMA stuff:
         get it from: http://www.astro.umd.edu/~lgm/CONFS/
     
     
     

    others, from my list when i did the metrics write-up:

    Ryle & Hewish, The Syntheis of Large Radio Telescopes, MNRAS, 1960

    Harris, On the Use of Windows for Harmonic Analysis with the Discrete
       Fourier Transform, Proc. IEEE, 66, 51-83, 1978

    Mutel & Gaume, A Design Study for a Dedicated VLBI Array,
       VLBA Memo 84, 1982

    Walker, Fast Quality Measure, VLBA Memo 144, 1982

    Cornwell, Quality Indicators for the MM Array, MMA Memo 18, 1984

    Hjellming, The 90 meter Configuration of the Proposed NRAO mm Array,
       MMA Memo 30, 1985

    Cornwell, Crystalline Antenna Arrays, MMA Memo 38, 1986

    Holdaway, Imaging Characteristics of a Homogeneous Millimeter Array,
       MMA Memo 61, 1990

    Holdaway, Evaluating the MMA Compact Configuration Designs,
       MMA Memo 81, 1992

    Cornwell, Holdaway, & Uson, Radio-interferometric imaging of very large
       objects: implications for array design, A&A, 271, 697-713, 1993

    Holdaway, Foster, & Morita, Fitting a 12km Configuration on the
       Chajnantor Site, MMA Memo 153, 1996

    Holdaway, What Fourier Plane Coverage is Right for the MMA?,
       MMA Memo 156, 1996

    Keto, The Shapes of Cross-Correlation Interferometers, ApJ, 475,
       843-852, 1997

    Holdaway, Effects of Pointing Errors on Mosaic Images with 8m, 12m, and
       15m Dishes, MMA Memo 178, 1997

    Helfer & Holdaway, Design Concepts for Strawperson Antenna
       Configurations for the MMA, MMA Memo 198, 1998

    Holdaway, Hour Angle Ranges for Configuration Optimization,
       MMA Memo 201, 1998

    Wright, Image Fidelity, BIMA memo 73, 1999
     

    there are a couple of more obscure references to Morita's work that I
    couldn't get proper references for or full copies of but which probably
    have relevant information:
     

    Morita, Array Configuration of Large Radio Interferometers for
       Astronomical Observations, National Astronomical Observatory,
       NRO-TR-56, 1997

    Morita, Ishiguro, & Holdaway, Array Configuration of the Large
       Millimeter and Submillimeter Array (LMSA), URSI-GA, 1996

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