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Attendees: Paola Andreani, Pamela Klaassen, Eelco van Kempen, Chris Wilson, Al Wootten, Crystal Brogan, Robert Lucas, Juan Cortes, Lars-Ake Nyman, Stuartt Corder, Antonio Hales, Alison Peck
Topics
1 Old Business The enhanced
Agenda from last meeting is available. Science IPT
notes from last month's telecon are available.
See
other images and animations. See
other images.
- New Business--Project news/updates.(Hills, Peck)
- R. Hills ALMA Status Report July 2009 (see attachment)
- ALMA_Status_July09.pdf: July 09 ALMA Status Report
- System: A new System engineer has begun work.
- Site: Nearly 90 antenna pads have now achieved conditional acceptance.
- Antennas: Elements of more than 15 antennas are at the OSF.
- ASAC Matters. Next f2f meeting in Garching in October.
- Review (mostly internal) of Commissioning Plans Early Sept OSF; R. Wilson Chair
- Commissioning Scientists. Search status
- ALMA Science IPT wiki page
- Astronomer Outreach: New JAO ALMA Webpages. JAONews. ESO Newsletter No 16 NRAO eNews ALMA News. NAOJ News. NRAO ALMA Calendar
- Current ALMA System Block Diagram Vers P.
- Directories
Science IPT Group Activity Reports
Please include your Group Activity Report here (How to Enter Your Report), or email it to AlWootten
Project Scientists
- Science IPT
- Topic for technical discussion.
- We need to do an update on the Scientific Specifications. Here Specifications Revision is a presentation Hills made to ASAC about this. We need to discuss operational efficiency.
- New issues that have come up include the amount of non-linearity in the front-ends, which will have an effect on calibration.
- ALMA Development. A set of possible development items was presented to the RadioMillimeterSubmillimeter Program Prioritization Panel in Pasadena. No powerpoint was presented there but a presentation is available.
- OSF (Peck)
- Next meeting is on Aug 19th (14:30 UT). Sep 16th for the following month.
- Commissioning and Science Verification Review, OSF, 2009 September 2-3. Bob Wilson, review Chair.
- ALMA SciOps Implementation Plan Review, SCO 2009 September 29-30.
- A Calibration Meeting was held.
- Early operation of the weather station on holography tower No 2. Continue to verify measurements by comparison with NAOJ weather station.
- ACD5 and ACD6 passed PAI and are cleared for shipment.
Bojan Nikolic/John Richer -- WVRs
- As people are probably aware, the work in Cambridge on phase corrections/WVRs is funded through an European Union Framework Programme 6 grant. European Union recently held a mid-term review of the whole ALMA enhancement under FP6, including the phase correction, and have informed that the review was passed.
- Two(?) WVRs at the site. One WVRs unit is undergoing detailed lab tests at Onsala.
Lars-Ake Nyman -- eSSR
- Science Operations Requirements Review, June 1-2, 2009, in Santiago
Science Corner:
- arXiv:0907.0210 [ps, pdf, other] Title: Dust in External Galaxies Authors: Daniela Calzetti (University of Massachusetts)
Calendar
Events of Interest
(see also Al's
ALMA Biweekly Calendar)
2009 |
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Jun 1-2 |
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Sci Ops Obs Prep meeting |
SCO |
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Jun 22-25 |
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CIPT Review 7 |
SCO |
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Jun 17 |
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Sci IPT |
telecon |
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Jun 24 |
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ALMA Board Telecon |
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Sci Requirements meeting? |
SCO |
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Jul 15-17 |
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ALMA North America Schedule Review |
CV |
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Jul 15 |
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Sci IPT |
telecon |
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Aug 19 |
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Sci IPT |
telecon |
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Sep 2-3 |
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CSV Review |
OSF |
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Sep 16 |
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Sci IPT |
telecon |
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Oct 13-14 |
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ASAC f2f |
ESO Garching |
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Nov 16 |
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ALMA AAER |
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Upcoming Meetings
Science at Q Band Sep 14-15, Manchester
Mass Assembly and Star Formation History of Galaxies Sep 21-24, Charlottesville, Virginia
To the Edge of the Universe: 30 years of IRAM Sep 28-30, Grenoble
From circumstellar disks to planetary systems Nov 3-6 Garching
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AlWootten - 2009-07-10