ALMA Science IPT Telecon Phone Meeting 2004-May-18

Connection Details

• Call date: 2004-May-18 (Tuesday)
• Call time:  14:30 UT 1030EDT 0430CEST
• Duration: 1 hr
• USA Number: 877-874-1919
• Outside USA Number: +1-203-320-9891    
• Passcode: 185064
• Leader: Al Wootten

Old Business

SE telecon.  ACTION: [Wootten]- what is the required IDR for a single image.  Bring this up in the science telecon.
                   ACTION: Science IPT, [Laing]- produce short memo on origin of spec on differential gain stability. [N.B. ALMA Tech Requirement No. 264 Differential gain stability between channels of a polarization pair 5e-4 at 300 sec TBC allocation to FE and BE are each 0.707 of this value 320 23]

ALMA Week:  [Wootten]Provide detailed values on solar filter to FEND by 30 April
                        [Laing] Develop a requirement for stitching together the BEND 2 GHz sections for overlap.      
                        [Conway, Laing] Choose antenna stations where first antennas will be located for first fringes.  4-30-04   [See CSV document]   
                        [with SE]  Decide when antennas are handed over to Commissioning (after 1st light or 1st fringes?) 6-01-04
                        [Wootten & Co] Write System Review Report  In process

             MILESTONES: all leaders of level 3 milestones with upcoming deadlines to report on status.  The Milestones, with project number, are available updated for March.

New Business -- Agenda

 ALMA Calendar 

• 7 April -- ASAC Telecon Agenda
  
• 10-11 May -- ASAC Face-to-face meeting, Cambridge, England
  
• 14-15 May  -- ALMA/NA Meeting, U. of Maryland Agenda
  
• 18 May -- Science IPT Telecon
  
• 25-26 May -- ALMA Backend Review, Arcachon, France
• 27 May -- ALMA Board Telecon
• 7-8 June -- Band 7 PDR, Grenoble, France
  
• 22-23 June -- ALMA Board Meeting, Garching
  
• 8-10 July -- Software IPT CDR2, Denver Colorado
• 24 September -- ALMA/EU Meeting, Garching
• 11-12 October -- AMAC, Florence Italy  

LAMA Memo Series  has  inhabitants!

Reports from Subgroups

     -3.Design Reference Science Plan (Hogerheijde )
          Some new responses have been received.  Explanation of one person's considerations in ALMA Memo No. 492 by Carilli.
            See link.

    -4 Imaging (Gueth, Holdaway)  
        - IDR  What Image Dynamic Range should we place a requirement on for a single ALMA field?  Or should we?  Request from SE.      

   -5. SSR (Wootten, in lieu of)
       -  Minutes of last week's meeting.  Data rate memo.
      
   -6. Configurations (Conway)

•   A draft version of the Spec document of ALMA first science configuration
  

    -7 Site (Radford, Nyman)
         -   ICDs

   -8 Operations, Science Commissioning and Verification (Laing)

 Date of next phone meeting According to the schedule the next one should be on: 2004, May 15th  14:30 UT
     

Upcoming Meetings

ALMA Workshop May 14-15, University of Maryland

Exploring the Cosmic Frontier: Astrophysical Instruments for the 21st Century   18-21 May 2004 Berlin, Germany

The Cool Universe: Observing Cosmic Beginnings   2004 October 4-8  Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria, Valparaiso, Chile

New Windows on Star Formation in the Cosmos  2004 October 11-13 University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland

Dusty and Molecular Universe  27-29 October 2004, Paris

Protostars and Planets V  24 - 28 October 2005  Hilton Waikoloa Village, The Big Island, Hawaii