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ALMA Science IPT Telecon
Phone Meeting 2004-October-19
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Connection Details
- Call date: 2004-October19 (Tuesday)
- Call time: 15:30
UT 1130EDT 0530CEST
- Duration: 1 hr
- USA Number: 877-874-1919
- Outside USA Number: +1-203-320-9891
- Passcode: 185064
- Leader: Al Wootten
Old Business
The enhanced Agenda
from last month's meeting is available. Science IPT notes
from last month's telecon. Last Meeting Action items
- Action items from previous
Science telecons:
ALMA Week: [Wootten]Provide detailed values on solar filter to
FEND
by 30 April . These
values will be adopted.
[Laing] Develop a requirement for
stitching
together the BEND 2 GHz sections for overlap. In process; see comments at CRE22,
which lead to a further linked document on this subject by Comoretto,
Butler and others. CDR is 18-19 October
[with SE] Decide when antennas are handed over to
Commissioning
(after 1st light or 1st fringes?) 6-01-04 [See CSV
document]
MILESTONES: all leaders of level 3 milestones with upcoming deadlines
to report on status. The Milestones,
with project number, are available updated for last month.
New Business -- Agenda
ALMA Calendar
- 18-19 Oct -- PDR for the Tunable Filter Bank card; Bordeaux
- 27-29 Oct -- Dusty and Molecular Universe Paris
- 2-3 Nov -- ALMA Board Face-to-face Meeting, OSF, near San
Pedro
de Atacama
- 15 Nov -- AMAC & ASAC Reports due to Board
- 2 December -- ALMA Board Telecon
- 5-7 Jan 2005 -- UNSC URSI Boulder meeting Commission J
- 11 Jan 2005 - ALMA Town Meeting, AAS San Diego
- 27 Jan 2005 -- ALMA Board Telecon . Dates
for 2005.
- Project news/updates
(Wootten and Wilson)
* JAO Positions PS
job description... (Wootten)
* New NA Project Manager.
* ASAC Meeting. Agenda.
* ALMA IPT Leads Meeting. Agenda.
* CCB suggested Early Science Configurations
do
not need official approval.
Science
Specifications and Requirements to be considered soon.
Comment
please immediately.
System
Design Description to be discussed. Comment please
immediately.
*Tunable Filter PDR Scheduled
*How to Tune
ALMA
Reports from Subgroups
-1 Project Scientists (see also above) See ALMA Science IPT
wiki
page.
* News from Japan (Kawabe)
* ARCs. Report on ESAC
Meeting, ESO Community Day (Wilson)
* NRAO Communications Newsletter
* ESO Newsletter
-2. Configurations
(Conway)
- John's memo No. 503 on ALMA antenna position calibration
is
available. Discussion on
wiki
page.
-3 Calibration
(Mangum) See ALMA Science IPT
wiki
page, with Minutes
of the 14 October telecon.
- A Calibration page is listed under
that.
Note the Calibration
Document roadmap.
- The Requirements and Specifications August
03 Version (Wootten)
- Draft
Bandpass Calibration Memo. from Bacmann and Guilloteau (3 of 3
reviews, favorable, received; final version near completion)
- Calibration
plan.
- Plan for further tests of amplitude
calibration devices: Progress is reported to be on schedule
(Wilson or Martin-Pintado)
-4.Design
Reference Science Plan (Hogerheijde )
- Calibration attributes of projects
have
been used to better define the Calibration Specifications and
Requirements,
under revision to reflect these data.
-5 Imaging (Holdaway)
- The ASAC requested
a
set
of simulations to help them address their Charge No. 1.
-6. SSR (Lucas)
- Minutes
of
this month's meeting.
- SSR meeting held 11-12 Oct in Garching
- Work on ACA specific requirements started
- Making progress on detailed requirements (per
subsystem)
-7 Site (Radford,
Nyman)
- ICDs
-8 Operations,
Science Commissioning and Verification (Laing)
-
ALMA Commissioning and Science Verification
Group -- Laing, Emerson, Chandler, Lucas, Mangum, Shepherd,
Wilson,
Wootten, Saito, Morita, Kawabe
- CSV Planning
underway.
- Early Draft of ALMA
Early
Science Modes
-9 Any Other Matters Arising
Upcoming Meetings
Upcoming Meetings - Wootten
Dusty and
Molecular
Universe 27-29 October 2004, Paris
IAU Symposium 227
Massive
Star Birth: A Crossroads of Astrophysics May 16-20 2005, Acireale,
Italy
Astrochemistry throughout the
Universe:
Recent Successes and Current Challenges 2005 August 29 - September
2;
Asilomar, California
Protostars
and
Planets V 24 - 28 October 2005 Hilton Waikoloa Village,
The
Big Island, Hawaii
URSI General Assembly
23-29
October 2005; New Delhi, India; "Mm/submm Techniques and Science"
session
25-26 Oct.
