ALMA Calibration Meeting

Draft Proposal for ALMA Calibration Meeting

Conference Date: June 21-22 2001 (Thursday and Friday)

Conference Location: Cambridge, England

Conference Purpose: To assess status of plans for ALMA phase calibration and to plan for ALMA Construction Phase activities

(1) Topics: Phase Calibration with ALMA

Including related calibration topics:

  • Amplitude and Flux: Guilloteau, Welch, Mangum

  • Pointing: Mangum

  • Bandpass: Emerson and Vaccari

    Measuring the Atmosphere

    Continuum Systems

  • IRAM: Guilloteau

    22 GHz Systems

  • OVRO: Woody
  • IRAM: Guilloteau
  • BIMA: Plambeck, Harris, Sutton
  • VLA: Chandler, Butler

    183 GHz

  • ALMA Plans: Hills, Delgado
  • JCMT/Canadian Plans: Wilson
  • CSO/JCMT/SMA: Wiedner

    IRMA .

  • Results and Plans for IRMA: Naylor

    Modeling the Atmosphere

    Atmospheric models: Cernicharo, Pardo

    Site testing results: Radford, Butler, Otarola

    (2) Future Plans

    Further work on existing interferometers: IRAM, OVRO, BIMA, VLA

    Test Interferometer Plans

    Implementation on site