ALMA Construction
PROJECT BOOK

 

Version 4.00, 2001-02-08

This book describes the ALMA construction plan for the Chajnantor site.
The Test Interferometer Project Book is also available, describing the plans and tests to be carried out at the VLA test site in New Mexico.


An index of archived versions of this ALMA Project Book and the earlier MMA-only versions is available here

DTE & JWMB


Table of Contents
  All of the chapters listed below are in PDF format
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1 Introduction (Brown & Kurz) 2000-09-27
2 Requirements & Specifications
1.Science Requirements (Brown) 2000-04-25
2.Engineering Specifications (Baars & Emerson) 2000-12-12
3.ALMA System Block Diagram: Introduction (D'Addario) 2001-02-05
    The ALMA System Block Diagrams (D'Addario et al.) 2001-02-02
3 Calibration
1. General Calibration Issues (Holdaway & Wootten) (alternative as HTML ) 2001-02-06
2. Calibration Hardware (Payne, Vaccari et al.) (alternative HTML ) 2001-02-02
4 Antennas (Napier & Andersen)   2001-02-06
5 Front Ends (Wild, Payne et al.) 2001-02-07
Receiver Optics (Carter & Lamb) 2000-11-28
WVR (Alma Memo #303) (Hills & Richer) 2000-04-24
6 Cryogenics (Orlowska, Harman & Ellison) 2001-01-31
7 Local Oscillators (D'Addario) 2001-02-05
8 ALMA Systems Engineering (Gie Han Tan) 2000-12-11
9 IF Processing and Signal Transmission (Sramek, Baudry, Brundage & Jackson)   (alternative HTML) 2001-01-30
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10 Correlator (Webber, Escoffier, Broadwell, Greenberg & Baudry) 2001-02-07
11 Holography (Perfetto & Emerson) 2000-09-28
12 Computing (Glendenning, Raffi and others) (also available as HTML ) 2001-01-29
13 Data Analysis: Imaging Requirements (Holdaway & Wootten) 2000-04-24
14 Site Characterization (PDF) also available as HTML format (Radford) 2000-09-06
15 Array Configuration (Min Yun)
NB: Significant revision expected after Feb 2001 PDR		 2000-12-12
16 Site Development (Brown & Hofstadt) 2000-12-06
17 Construction, Integration and Interim Operations (Brown & Kurz) 2000-11-28
18 Post-construction Operations (Gordon & Brown) 2001-02-07

Notes

++Dates: The date format used here and elsewhere in this project book is based on the international ISO 8061 standard, being given as year-month-day.