Conference Date: June 21-22 2001 (Thursday and Friday)
Conference Location: Cambridge, England
Conference Purpose: To assess status of plans for ALMA
calibration and to plan for ALMA Construction Phase activities
Agenda
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1) Review of Requirements S.Guilloteau - A.Wootten
2) Amplitude Calibration
2.1 Calibration Error Budget
2.2 Receiver Calibration
2.3 Bandpass Calibration
2.4 Pointing & Focus
2.5 Flux
2.6 Single-Dish Calibration
Aspects
2.7 ACA considerations
2.8 Calibration of the Primary
Beam; mosaicking requirements
3) Phase Calibration
3.1 WVR options
(summary) tbd
3.2 Fast switching
4) Measuring the Atmosphere
4.1 Review of existing
WVR systems
- 22
GHz
- 183 GHz
CSO
- IR
JCMT
- 22 GHz
NRO
4.2 ALMA Baseline
plan -
4.3 IRMA project
-
4.4 A temperature
sounding device: 60 GHz radiometer or FTS tipper ?
5) Modeling the Atmosphere
- Atm models -
6) Site testing
- Results -
7) ALMA Calibration Plan
- ALMA basic calibration
- ACA calibration
8) Development strategy
- Laboratory tests
- Further
work on existing interferometers: IRAM, OVRO, BIMA, VLA
- Test Interferometer
Plans
- Implementation
on site
Reviewers (needed for PDR):
Participants:
Wootten, Emerson, Holdaway, Mangum,
Radford
+ Plambeck, Woody, Welch, Harris
Moreno, Lucas, Guilloteau, Richer,
Hills, Pardo
+ Wiedner
Matsuo, Kohno, (Sakamoto ?)
Wild/Payne, Carter, Baars/Tan