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ALMA Science IPT Telecon
Phone Meeting 2004-September-21
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Connection Details
- Call date: 2004-September21 (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
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 Last month's
Science
telecon:
ACTION: John will work on the antenna location plan
Still in process, draft available (see below)
SE telecon. ACTION: [Wootten]- what is the required IDR for a
single image. Bring this up in the science telecon. Proposed Text.
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] See Holdaway's study.
ALMA System Technical
Specifications have been approved by the CCB. See item No. 264
and comments on page 10.
ALMA Week: [Wootten]Provide detailed values on solar filter to
FEND by 30 April . Comments on these
values?
[Laing]
Develop a requirement for stitching together the BEND 2 GHz sections
for overlap. In
process; see comments at CR79 linked below,
which lead to a further linked document on this subject by Comoretto,
Butler
and others.
[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 [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
- 10 August -- ASAC Telecon
- 11 August -- 20:50 UT Predicted peak of Perseids
- 10 September -- ANASAC Telecon
- 21 Sept -- ALMA Science IPT Telecon
- 23 September -- ALMA Board Telecon
- 24 September -- ALMA/EU Meeting,
Garching
- 27-28 September -- ASAC face-to-face meeting,
Charlottesville
- 29 Sept - 1 October -- face-to-face IPT Leads Meeting,
Charlottesville
- 4-8 October -- The Cool Universe: Observing Cosmic
Beginnings Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria, Valparaiso, Chile
- 11-12 Oct -- AMAC Meeting, Florence, Italy
- 11-13 Oct -- New Windows on Star Formation in the Cosmos
University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland
- 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)
* CCB APPROVED ALMA
System Technical Requirements
* ALMA Board Response to ASAC Report
Reports from Subgroups
-1 Project Scientists (see also above) See ALMA Science IPT
wiki page.
* News from Japan (Kawabe)
* New ASAC Charges (Wootten)
* ARCs. Paul vanden Bout has
begun
to form the North American
ALMA Science
Center.
* NRAO Communications Newsletter
* ESO proto-communique
-2. Configurations
(Conway)
- A draft
version of John's memo on ALMA antenna position calibration (July
28, item 25, dated May) is available.
Please note particularly the diagrams at the end.
-3 Calibration
(Wootten) Mangum will be at a procurement
meeting. See ALMA Science IPT
wiki page. A Calibration page is listed under that.
- 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)
- Very drafty Calibration
plan.
- Plan for further tests of amplitude
calibration
devices: Progress? (Martin-Pintado)
- Please see the report
from Berkeley on the absolute calibration via gain horn experiment.
-4.Design
Reference Science Plan (Hogerheijde )
- Calibration attributes of projects
-5 Imaging (Stirling,
Holdaway)
- A second release of the
atmospheric simulation package will be available. See the readme
description.
-6. SSR (Lucas?)
- Minutes
of this month's meeting--only subsystem scientist reports.
-7 Site (Radford,
Nyman)
- ICDs
-8 Operations,
Science Commissioning
and Verification (Laing)
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ALMA Commissioning and Science Verification
Group -- Laing, Emerson, Chandler, Lucas, Mangum, Shepherd,
Wilson, Wootten,
Saito, Morita, Kawabe
-9 Any Other Matters Arising
Upcoming Meetings
Upcoming Meetings - Wootten
Cores, Disks, Jets
& Outflows in Low & High Mass Star Forming Environments:
Observations, Theory
and Simulations July 12-16, 2004 Banff, Alberta, Canada
ESO
ALMA
COMMUNITY DAY 2004 September 24 Garching 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
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.