STRAWMAN Agenda for ALMA Scientific Advisory Committee

The agenda covering all Chile events is here. This page covers the ASAC meeting at Cerro Calan only.
Meeting instructions are here. Cerro Calan, Observatorio Universidad de Chile, Camino del Observatorio 1515
Los Dominicos, San Carlos de Apoquindo, Santiago, Chile

Assume 30 min per event, except as noted

Presentations must leave 5 min for questions

Start 0900 11 September

09:00-09:10 Welcome and establish plan for writing report (10 min) (Leo Bronfman, Ewine van Dishoeck, Geoff Blake, Yasuo Fukui)

09:10-09:30 Project Update (Brown)

09:30-10:00 Toward a Three-Way Partnership (Ishiguro)

10:00-10:30 AMAC report; management and structure of the project in Chile (Dick Kurz and Marc Rafal)

10:30-10:45 Discussion

10:45-11:05 Break

11:05-11:25 Site Issues; discussion of visit to Chajnantor (Radford, Nyman, Sakamoto)

11:25-11:40 Discussion

11:40-12:30 The Atacama Compact Array: Design and Simulations (Guilloteau, Wootten, Morita)

12:30-13:00 Discussion of ACA, Science (Cox, Crutcher and Welch, Leaders)

13:00-14:00 Lunch, coffee

14:00-15:30 Discussion ACA Science (Calibration Issues - Guilloteau; SMA Status - Gurwell)

15:30-15:50 Report from Nobeyama Correlator Meeting (Chikada)

15:50-16:00 Recapitulation of Second Generation Correlator science (Hasegawa)

16:00-16:10 Discussion correlator (Yamamoto, Bachiller)

16:10-16:30 Break, coffee

16:30-17:10 Recapitulation Bands 1, 4, 8 and 10 Science Case (van Dishoeck, Richer, Cox, Yamamoto)

17:10-17:45 General Discussion on Science Cases for Enhancements

17:45-19:30 ASAC only session; Prioritization of Enhancements (van Dishoeck, Fukui, Blake)

8:00-?? Dinner (TBA)

Start 0900 September 12, coffee available

09:00-9:20 Report Operations WG (Evans)

09:20-09:50 Discussion (Evans, Leader)

09:50-09:55 A High Speed Communication System for ALMA (Eduardo Vera)

09:55-10:30 Software (Morita, Glendenning, Lucas)
Status of all on-line and off-line aspects and SSR requirements;
Report of Berkeley meeting, report on data reduction -> AIPS++

10:30-11:00 Discussion on Software (Benz, Tatematsu, Gurwell, Leaders)

11:00-11:15 Break

11:15-11:45 Receivers (Payne, )
Status various prototype developments, related ASAC issues,Production Planning
LO developments

11:45-12:05 Calibration Issues (Guilloteau, Wootten, Hasegawa)

12:05-12:15 The SMA WVR and IRMA (Wilson)

12:15-12:40 Discussion on Receivers and Calibration (Blake, Nakai, van Dishoeck, Richer, Wilson, Matsuo, Leaders)

12:40-13:10 Report on prototype antennae (Baars, Mangum, Chikada)

13:10-14:15 Lunch, coffee, walk around Cerro Calan

14:15-14:35 Status Test Interferometer (Mangum)

14:35-14:50 Status Polarization Issues - Baars, Mangum

14:50-15:35 Discussion Antennas, Test Interferometer (Walmsley, Fukui, Welch, and Crutcher Leaders)

15:35-15:55 Other Chajnantor Projects

(10 min) The ASTE Project (Kawabe)

(10 min) The APEX Project (Schilke)

15:55-16:15 Coffee

16:15-17:15 Subgroup meetings

17:15-18:15 Meeting of the whole, reports, election of new Vice-Chairperson

18:15 Adjourn

A partial list of things to read before the meeting (Under construction)

Science Cases:

Please examine the report on Band 10

Please examine the report on Bands 1, 4 and 8 and on the Correlator distributed to the EACC.
Please read the Science Case for Band 1.
Please read the Science Case for Band 4.
Please read the Science Case for Band 8.
Please read the case from the Correlator group.

Operations:

Please read and tote along the operations binder you were mailed. The Operations Group has issued its report in pdf and in postscript formats.

Calibration:

Stephane's recent memo on calibration and strategy is available. The draft Calibration Strategy PDR report.
Documents previously distributed: A key reference is the Calibration White Paper .

ACA Issues:

ACA science issues. New

contributions from Crutcher and Welch.
See ACA site.

Receivers:

Front End Reading:

From a FE group telecon on 5 July 2001, courtesy of W. Wild:

- Short status report of FE work in Japan (Japan FE StatusJul2001.txt)
- Short status report of FE work at IRAM (IRAM ALMAStatus-Jul2001.pdf)
- Short staus report of band 9 work at SRON (SRON Band9StatusJuly2001.pdf)

Additional material:
- A quick and short overview over the ALMA Front End D&D: Viewgraphs of a talk given at the Asia-Pacific Radio Science Conference, Aug 2001, Tokyo
Report of the Front End PDR

Software

Please see documents at the SSR home page.

Hint: Look under Working documents for draft Pipeline and offline data requirement drafts.

Correlator

ASAC guidelines revised for clarification.

Newly received from R. Bachiller.
Report from face-to-face meeting in Japan.

Documents from previous meetings: Primary reference is the ALMA Construction Project Book chapter on the Correlator ALMA Construction Project Book chapter on the Correlator. Of interest also is the WIDAR Correlator proposed for the EVLA and a suggestion of its use for ALMA by Peter Dewdney and Brett Carlson.

Water Vapor Radiometry

The current version of the WVRs will be shown on Chajnantor (someone?).

Documents from previous meetings: The Cambridge and Onsala groups have proposed the next generation of 183 GHz Line Monitors (PS) and 183 GHz Line Monitors (MSWord).

Site and Configurations

Radford has assembled a useful reading list.

Documents from previous meetings:

Please visit the ALMA Configuration Page.

Possible Participants

Aloin Isabelle
Baars Jacob
Bachiller Rafael
Benz Arnold
Blake Geoffrey
Booth Roy
Bronfman Leonardo
Chikada Yoshihiro
Cox Pierre
Crutcher Richard
Evans Neil
Fukui, Yasuo
Glendenning Brian
Guilloteau Stephane
Gurwell Mark
Hasegawa Tetsuo
Hofstadt, Daniel
Illanes, Esteban
Kurtz Richard
Lucas Robert
Mangum Jeffrey
Matsuo Hiroshi
Nakai Naomasa
Nyman, Lars-Ake
Payne John
Radford Simon
Rafal, Mark
Richer John
Sakamoto, Seiichi
Schilke, Peter
Shaver Peter
Tetematsu Ken
van Dishoeck Ewine
Walmsley Malcolm
Welch Jack
Wilson Christine
Wootten Al
Yamamoto Satoshi

Revised 5 September 2001 HAW