ALMA/US Imaging and Calibration Group

Agenda for meeting Tuesday, 5 Dec 2000 at 4:00pm EST.

Date: 5 Dec 2000

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

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

Past ImCal minutes, etc on MMA Imaging and Calibration Division Page

"NSF is also pleased to be playing a leadership role in developing the international partnership for ALMA--the Atacama Large Millimeter Array." --remarks of Dr. Rita Colwell, Director, NSF, at the Dedication of the Green Bank Telescope, August 25, 2000.

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Agenda

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News -- Wootten

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Antenna CDR -- Mangum

A report from Duisburg.

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ASAC Meeting -- Wootten

The ASAC meeting occurs 11 December. The agenda will be the ASAC agenda.

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Site Visit -- Radford, Butler

Simon and Bryan will visit Chajnantor next week. Simon asks: Next week, Bryan Butler, Angel Otarola, and I will be working at Chajnantor. Our primary task is to repair and upgrade some of the instruments. With luck, though, we'll have time to survey some of the prospective antenna locations.

Please, then, send me your current list of antenna positions. Please indicate any positions of particular concern. Off the top of my head, I imagine these might be the positions of the compact (<~ 500 m) configurations, antennae near geographic features, or critical antenna positions that would be difficult to move without affecting the entire configuration.

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Report - Wootten

Another monthly report must be assembled!!

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Configurations

The CLEAN and difference results for B arrays for all three declinations and all five test images, with directly comparable grey scale difference images, have been posted on my website, available under Steven's Lair. This now shows CLEAN and difference images for all declinations and test images, with the grey scale difference plots directly comparable. Opinins?

Al's updated minutes of the teleconference are available .

Any further thoughts on metrics??

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Action Items 1 Aug2000

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

October, 2000

October 13 ACC Meeting Paris, France

November, 2000

Nov 6-9 ALMA Photonics/Receiver Tokyo, Japan

Nov 6 ALMA SSR Meeting Teleconference

Nov, 13 ALMA SAC Meeting Teleconference

Nov 15-16 Vertex Antenna CDR Duisburg, Germany

Nov 28-29 EIE Antenna PDR Venice, Italy

December, 2000

Dec 8 Project Book Frozen Executive Fiat

End of Second Millenium A. D.

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Travel

Butler

oct 22-29 | pasadena (annual dps meeting)

nov 3-7 | CV (readhead meeting)

nov 12-19 | marrakech, morocco (IAU site testing meeting)

Radford

nov 5-7 | CV (readhead meeting) ------

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

Nov 6-9	ALMA Photonics/Receiver	Tokyo, Japan
Nov 6	ALMA SSR Meeting	Teleconference
Nov, 13	ALMA SAC Meeting	Teleconference
Nov 15-16	Vertex Antenna CDR	Duisburg, Germany
Nov 28-29	EIE Antenna PDR	Venice, Italy