Assume 30 min per event, except as noted
Presentations must leave 5 min for questions
Start 0900 23 February
09:00-09:10 Welcome and establish plan for writing report (10 min) (Malcolm Walmsley, Jack Welch, Ewine van Dishoeck)
09:10-09:30 Status Report on ALMA-J Activities (20 min)(Ishiguro )
09:30-10:00 Toward a Three-Way Partnership (30 min)(Brown )
10:00-10:40 Management Structure, Implementation process, operations, and science operations plan (40 min)( Dick Kurz and Marc Rafal)
10:40-10:55 Break
10:55-11:55 The Atacama Compact Array: Design and Simulations (60 min)(Baars, Guilloteau, Kawabe )
11:55-12:30 Discussion* (Evans and Cox, Leaders)
12:30-1:45 Lunch, coffee
1:45-2:25 Receivers
Report from Tucson Front End PDR (Wild)
Production Planning (Wild)
2:25-2:55 Discussion*(Blake, van Dishoeck (Recievers)
2:55-3:25 Correlator
Baseline Correlator (10 mins)(Wootten)
Future Correlator (10 mins)(Baudry)
Enhanced Correlator (10 mins)(Chikada)
3:30-4:00 Discussion*(Bachiller, Scoville (Backends), Leaders)
4:00-4:15 Break, coffee
4:15-4:45 Report on Configurations
(Min Yun, Guilloteau, Wootten)
4:45-5:30 Discussion*( Crutcher, Menten and Yun, Leaders)
5:30-5:45 Reports on Site (Wootten, Sakamoto)
5:45-7:00 ASAC only session
7:30-?? Dinner
Start 0900 February 24, coffee available
09:00-9:30 Software--Science and Software Requirements Group (Lucas)
09:30-10:00 Discussion* (Gurwell, Leader)
10:00-10:30 Polarization Specifications(Hamaker, Crutcher)
10:30-10:45 Discussion*( Crutcher, Menten, Leaders)
10:45-11:00 Break
11:00-12:00 Calibration
(15 min)Water Vapor Radiometry: Wilson(IRMA, 183 GHz)
(15 min)Water Vapor Radiometry: Richer(183 GHz)
(15 min)Front End Calibration (Guilloteau)
(15 min)Front End Calibration (Welch)
12:00-12:20 Discussion*(Richer and Wilson, Leaders)
12:20-12:40 Report on Antennas (Emerson and Baars)
12:40-1:00 Discussion*( Walmsley and Welch, Leaders)
1:00-2:15 Lunch, coffee, walk through Florence
2:15-2:30 Outreach, P. R.; Wootten
3:30-2:40 Discussion*
2:40-03:00 Other Chajnantor Projects
(10 min) The ASTE Project (Kawabe)
(10 min) The APEX Project (Menten)
Discussion*
3:00-4:00 Writing assignments
and subgroup meetings*
4:00-5:00 Meeting of the
whole, reports, election of new Vice-Chairperson*
5:00 Adjourn at 5 PM
A partial list of things
to read before the meeting
Documents previously distributed: A key reference is the Calibration White Paper . In March 2000, the ASAC called for a calibration plan. Toward that end, two memos were been written:
See Plambeck's memo and Mangum's memo . Some of these issues were discussed in September and covered in the ASAC report.
NEW Morita's work and Yun's work on the ACA are available in draft form.
Please read the document from the January 2001 ALG meeting distributed by Brown for the 19 January 2001 ASAC Teleconference.
Documents from previous meetings:
Refer to Plan for an Enhanced ALMA .
See also Stephane's comments on the ACA and also Morita's work , Al's summary of June 12.and Jack Welch's Choices of Antenna Size and Number for the Atacama Compact Array.
Please read the ALMA Specifications for the Front End Assembly.
Please also see:
Documents from previous meetings: ASAC response to ALMA Receiver Subsystem Top-level Requirements and Specifications. The latter document has been revised, and a draft is available as Specifications for the ALMA Front End Assembly. The document referred to first above is the final version adopted.
Documents from previous meetings: The Cambridge and Onsala groups have proposed the next generation of 183 GHz Line Monitors (PS) and 183 GHz Line Monitors (MSWord).
Documents from previous meetings: Primary reference is the ALMA Construction Project Book chapter on the Correlator ALMA Construction Project Book chapter on the Correlator. See Cost reduction in FX correlator for enhanced ALMA and sensitivity consideration for recent ideas on one alternative. High Performace FX Correlator System for ALMA. Of interest also is the WIDAR Correlator proposed for the EVLA and a suggestion of its use for ALMA by Peter Dewdney and Brett Carlson.
Polarimetry discussions in ASAC: Making a fresh start (6Feb '01).
Intensity measurements with feeds in p.a. 0 and 45 degrees.
Other items which may be read for background are Polarisation observations with ALMA and a recent paper in SPIE.
Documents from previous meetings: See Steve Myers' summary of possible specifications on polarization for ALMA. In March, the ASAC provided recommendations , based in part on a document by D'Addario.
Documents from previous meetings:
Please visit the ALMA Configuration Page.
Possible Participants
Baars, Jaap
Bachiller, Rafael
Baudry, Alain
Blake, Geoffrey
Bronfman, Leonardo
Brown, Robert
Chikada, Yoshihiro
Cox, Pierre
Crutcher, Richard
DeVos, Marco
Emerson, Darrel
Evans, Neal
Fukui, Yasuo
Guilloteau, Stephane
Gurwell, Mark
Hasegawa, Tetsuo
Ishiguro, Masato
Kawabe, Ryohei
Kurz, Richard
Matsuo, Hiroshi
Menten, Karl
Momose, Munetake
Nakai, Naomasa
Rafal, Marc
Richer, John
Sakamoto, Seiichi
Scoville, Nick
Shaver, Peter
Tatematsu, Ken'ichi
van Dishoeck, Ewine
Walmsley, Malcolm
Welch, Jack
Wild, Wolfgang
Wilson, Christine
Wootten, Al
Yun, Min S.
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In Florence:
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