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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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:
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.
(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:
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.