ALMA North American Science Advisory Committee Telecon Phone Meeting 2004-November-05

Connection Details

• Call date: 2004-November-05 (Friday)
• Call time 15:00 EST or  20:00 UT    
• Duration: 1 hr
• USA Number:  877-874-1919
• Outside USA Number:  +1 203-320-9891
• Passcode: 185064 
• Leader: Al Wootten

Old Business --

New Business -- Agenda

ALMA Calendar

•  27-29 Oct -- Dusty and Molecular Universe Paris
• 29 October -- ANASAC Telecon
  
•  2-3 Nov -- ALMA Board Face-to-face Meeting Chile
• 15 Nov -- AMAC & ASAC Reports due to Board
  
•  2 December -- ALMA Board Telecon
  
•  5-7 Jan 2005 -- UNSC URSI Boulder meeting Commission J
• 7 Jan 2005 -- ANASAC Telecon
  
•  11 Jan 2005 - ALMA Town Meeting, AAS San Diego
•  27 Jan 2005 -- ALMA Board Telecon .  Dates for 2005.

1.  ALMA Project News (Wootten)

2.  ASAC  --  The report is to be delivered to the Board on 3 November.  See wiki page to comment upon the Charges, please.

      Survey; AAS Meeting Agenda (Yun)

4.   Any Other Matters Arising

Science Corner:  Sebastian Wolf writes:  Our most recent feasibility study concerning future observations of young circumstellar disks with embedded giant planets with the Atacama Large Millimeter Array makes the prediction of possible detections not only of the gap created by giant planets, but also of the local hot and dense circumplanetary environment, indicating the location of the planet in the gap.  See: http://xxx.uni-augsburg.de/pdf/astro-ph/0410064

 Fig. 2.— Simulation of ALMA observations of disk with an embedded planet of 1Mjup
(left column) / 5Mjup (right column) around a 0.5M⊙ / 2.5M⊙ star (orbital radius: 5AU).
The assumed distance is 50 pc (top row) / 100 pc (bottom row). The disk mass amounts
to Mdisk = 1.0 × 10−2M⊙. Only structures above the 2sigma -level are shown. The size of the
combined beam is symbolized in the lower left edge of each image. Note the reproduced
shape of the spiral wave near the planet and the slightly shadowed region behind the planet
in the upper images.

ANASAC Membership:
Andrew Blain
 Chris Carilli
 Dick Crutcher
 David Hollenbach
 Jason Glenn
 Dan Jaffee
 Luis Rodriguez
 Dave Sanders
 Xiaohui Fan
 Christine Wilson
 Lee Mundy
 Jean Turner
 Min Yun
 Phil Myers
 Doug Johnstone 
 Mark Gurwell
 Joan Najita
See ImCal and/or ALMA wiki  for background information on some discussed items.

Al Wootten has also created an ANASAC wiki page at NRAO for this collaborative effort. You can find the link as https://wikio.nrao.edu/bin/view/ALMA/AlmaNorthAmericanScienceAdvisoryCommittee.
You will find my earlier e-mail and the web link to the sample survey questions if you click on "NaascSurvey" wiki word on the front page.  If you are just browsing, you need not do much else. If you want to contribute material to these wiki pages, you can visit  https://wikio.nrao.edu/bin/view/TWiki/WelcomeGuest to learn more about this web tool and register using the link shown at the bottom.
Several points regarding use of the wiki:

Any registered user may put text on a wiki page or construct a new one.   Please let Wootten know if you have questions about this process.
 
When you edit a page you lock it. ¨
A file lock will time out and release after one hour of inactivity. ¨
A file lock can be overridden (please do not do this). ¨
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The wiki has lots of plugins (like one which allows for an interactive group action item list) which will be installed over the coming weeks.


 
  Date of next phone meeting According to our current schedule the next one should be on: 2005, January 7th 20:00 UT

 

Upcoming Meetings - Wootten



Dusty and Molecular Universe  27-29 October 2004, Paris NEW! Presentations online!

IAU Symposium 227 Massive Star Birth: A Crossroads of Astrophysics May 16-20 2005, Acireale, Italy

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


Protostars and Planets V  24 - 28 October 2005  Hilton Waikoloa Village, The Big Island, Hawaii