ASAC Socorro Face-to-Face Meeting Agenda v1.0 - 6/8 Sept 2002


September 6th (Fri)

venue: AOC-auditorium

Time: 11am-12pm

Speaker: Dan Homan, NRAO - "Circular Polarization from Relativistic Jets"
 

venue: ALMA Test Facility

VertexRSI Antenna Tour
 Leave AOC after lunch by bus ca 3 p.m., return late afternoon
 

September 7thth(Saturday)

(Note: Some discussion sessions may be closed to non-ASAC members).
 Breakfasty items will be available before the meeting.
  8:45-9:00 am Welcome (K. Y. Lo)
  9:00-9:15 am Welcome and establishing a plan for writing the report (P. Cox, C. Wilson)
  9:15-10:00 am Project update. (P. van den Bout, M. Tarenghi)
 10:00-10:30 am Current project status in Japan (M. Ishiguro)
 10:30-10:45 am Discussion
 10:45-11:00 am Tea/coffee break
 11:00-11:30 am Project status in Chile, including site legalities (P. van den Bout, L. Bronfman)
 11:30-12:00 pm Prototype antennae update (J. Mangum, R. Kurz, M. Saito (or Y. Fukui) -- M. Walmsley, Y. Fukui)
 12:00-12:30 pm Planned testing program at ATF (J. Mangum, -- M. Walmsley, Y. Fukui )
 12:30- 1:00 pm Discussion Antennas, ATF (M. Walmsley, Y. Fukui)
  1:00- 2:00 pm Lunch, tea/coffee
  2:00- 2:30 pm Prototype receivers, LO (C. Cunningham -- E. van Dishoeck, G. Blake )
  2:30- 3:00 pm Discussion prototype receivers (E. van Dishoeck, G. Blake)
  3:00- 3:20 pm Tea/coffee break
  3:20- 3:30 pm Charges from the ACC: Introduction (S. Guilloteau) followed by Discussions of Response to ACC Charges (P. Cox, C. Wilson)
  3:30- 3:50 pm Site evaluation and stringency - (N. Evans, S. Radford)
  3:50- 4:00 pm Long Baseline Y+ configuration - (M. Holdaway -- R. Booth, M. Yun)
  4:00- 4:10 pm The ALMA configuration - (Conway or Booth -- R. Booth, M. Yun)
  4:10- 4:20 pm Prioritization of the ALMA enhancements (van Dishoeck, Blake)
  4:20- 4:40 pm Enhancements to the baseline ALMA instrument - (T. Hasegawa -- S. Yamamoto, P. Cox, N. Evans)
  4:40- 5:15 pm Early Science (P.Cox, All)
  5:15- 6:00 pm Discussion and adjournment
  6:30 ----- pm Reception; dinner at El Sombrero

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September 8th(Sunday)
 Breakfasty items will be available before the meeting.
  8:30- 9:30 am Summary of ACC Charge discussion, Recommendations (P. Cox, C. Wilson, S. Yamamoto)
  9:30- 10:00 am AIPS++ Testing Report (A. Kemball, R. Lucas)
 10:00- 10:30 am Additional software issues: Pipeline, Archiving, SOC, ... (B. Glendenning, R. Lucas ....)
 10:30- 11:00 am Discussion of software issues.
 11:00- 11:15 am Tea/coffee break
 11:15- 11:45 am Calibration & Polarisation (S. Guilloteau)
 11:45- 12:00 am IF subsystem, baseline correlator (D. Sramek -- R. Bachiller, L. Mundy)
 12:00 -12:15 pm Discussion
 12:30- 1:30 pm Lunch, tea/coffee
 1:30- 2:00 pm Upcoming Site Review (S. Radford -- )
 2:00- 2:45 pm Toward a three-way ALMA: ACA, receiver bands, correlator (P. van den Bout, M. Ishiguro -- N. Evans, P. Cox, S. Yamamoto)
 2:45- 3:15 pm RSC Discussion (Cox, van Dishoeck)
 3:15- 3:30 pm Tea/coffee break
 3:30- 4:30 pm Meeting of subgroups and initial writing assignments
 4:30- 5:30 pm Meeting of the whole, summary of recommendations/report
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A partial list of things to read before the meeting (Under construction)


The Project Book, Version 5.5: 


The Project Book, Version 5.5, is available on the Web.

ACC Charge Documents: 


Charges from the ACC to the ASAC.

 The Early Science Group will issue its report, which you may obtain here: ps format.

 The Stringency Group has issued its report, which you may obtain here: pdf format or ps.

Enhancements to the baseline ALMA instrument -   S. Yamamoto, P. Cox

  The enhancements which are considered by the Japanese radio community are as follows:
  (1) ACA: Twelve 7-meter antennae and four 12-meter antennae including cryo systems, baseline-receiver cartridges, IF and backend systems for them. The four 12-meter antennae are used for calibrating the ACA and also for accurate single-dish measurements. This will enhance the imaging capability of ALMA.
  (2) New receiver bands: Bands 8, 10 and 4. Receiver cartridges for 64 baseline antennae and 16 ACA antennae. This particularly enhances the submillimeter-wave capability of ALMA.
  (3) Second generation correlator: High resolution correlators for the 64+16 antennae. This enhances the spectroscopic capability of ALMA.
  (4) Contribution to infrastructure
  -- Please read the email from Hasegawa including a draft proposal summary of Japanese participation to ALMA sent by Kaifu-san to the EACC members on August 1.
 The enhancement report of September 2001 is available for your perusal. Past ASAC Reports are available, as always, at The the ASAC portion of the ALMA site.

Other Topics to be Addressed: 


Antennas -- The reports to the AMAC, NA or EU are password protected and may not be viewed.

Receivers -- Please see the report to the AMAC, NA or EU

Computing -- Please see the report to the AMAC, NA

AIPS++ Testing Report--Kemball and Lucas will issue a report, which will be available Friday in Socorro.

IF subsystem, baseline correlator -- Please see the report to the AMAC, EU. The PDR report from ALMA Week is apparently not yet available. Presentations to that review are available at sitescape.

Travel Plans 


A Spreadsheet is available with detailed plans as received by the New Mexico Reservationist, Christine Wingenter . You may wish to have a copy with you if your flight is delayed. Christine 505-835-7357 will help to coordinate return trips if needed. Barry Clark's Socorro Restaurant Reviews may be of some interest.