MMA Imaging and Calibration Group

Agenda for meeting Tuesday, 11 Jul 2000 at 4pm EDT.

Date: 11 Jul 2000

Time: 4:00 pm EDT (2:00 pm Socorro, 1:00 pm Tucson)

Phone: (804)296-7082 (CV SoundStation Premier Conference phone).

Past minutes, etc on MMA Imaging and Calibration Division Page

Minutes

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News. -Wootten

News...such as there is. IAU plans--new brochure and sensitivity. BIMA secondary calibration. WVR news. Monthly reports.

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Topics - Butler

- beam squint issues

- phase tracking during OTF interferometry

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Japan Involvement -Wootten

See Letter to ASAC from Kawabe.

And Stephane's comments on the ACA

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Configurations -- Wootten

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Action Items 11 Jul2000

DECISION: Configurations--where are we? Next phone meeting plans...ACA/THzA?

DECISION: Implementation of 183 GHz WVR?

DECISION: Are the specs for a nutating secondary correct?

DECISION: What is the total power specification on the ALMA?

DECISION: What is the effect of 1/f noise in the HEMT amplifiers of SIS receivers upon our ability to combine total power and interferometric images into a faithful representation of the sky?

Year 2000

January	February	March	April
May	June	July	August
September	October	November	December

May, 1-2	Site Development Discussions	Garching, Germany
May 15-17	Test Interferometer Planning	Tucson, Arizona

Jun, 12-16	2nd IRAM Millimeter Interferometry Summer School	IRAM Grenoble, France
June 19-20	Vertex Antenna PDR	Duisburg, Germany
Jun, 20-27	7th Synthesis Imaging Summer School	Socorro, USA
June 21-22	EIE Antenna PDR	Venice, Italy

October 13

ACC Meeting

Paris, France

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