ALMA North American Science Advisory Committee

; ALMA North American Science Advisory Committee Telecon meeting Mar 16, 2012

The NAASC Workshop Outflows, Winds and Jets: from Young Stars to Supermassive Black Holes, the sixth in a series of workshops, was held 3-6 March in Charlottesville Virginia. 145 participants pondered presentations and engaged in discussion covering the wide range of astrophysical environments in which gas moves at high velocity. Both the origin of the moving gas and its impacts on nearby environments were covered. Presentations will be available online; presentations were broadcast in realtime on Twitter (#jets2012).

Poster PDFs are available here.

Contact Information for those calling in.

• Call date: 2012-03-16 04:00 pm EDT or 20:00 UT (Friday)
• Duration: 1 hr
  * USA Number: 1-888-989-3306
  
• Outside USA Number: +1 517 968 4643
  
• Passcode: 2935920#
  
• Leaders: R. Osten, A. Wootten, C. Lonsdale

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• Attendees:

Topics

1. Old Business The enhanced Agenda from last meeting is available. Minutes from that meeting are not available.
2. New Business under Discussion.

Discussion Items

1. Report on ALMA progress at Chile (Wootten)
   • Construction -
     • Science_-_February_2012.pdf: Science section of February Report, from R. Hills.
     • Current Status: 27 antennas at AOS; 55 antennas including kits on site, >38 Front Ends delivered.
     • Antenna moves scheduled (Watch them on the cam):
       • Mar. 16: CM07 OSF TF2 to AOS J507
       • Mar. 18: DV05 AOS A021 to A082
       • Mar. 19: DA47 OSF TF3 to AOS A026
   • Operations
     • Early Science Progress (Hibbard)
       • List of highest ranked projects
       • Knowledgebase article on data status
       • All PIs have been notified of the status of their proposals. For observations status, contact your PI through the helpdesk please.
       • What information on ALMA do you feel you are not getting? Please give us a top five and we'll fashion a FAQ. ( AI )
   • Current Status: Ops (Hibbard)
     • Cycle 1 Lookahead
       • Call, Deadline expected boreal spring 2012.
       • Observations expected after completion of Cycle 0 (Jan 2013)
2. NAASC during Early Science
   • What is happening at the NAASC?
   • AAS No 220 will have an ALMA Special Session (Lonsdale)
   • Meeting has occurred: Outflows, Winds and Jets: from Young Stars to Supermassive Black Holes
   • ALMA Development (Wootten)
     • The Call for ALMA Development Studies was issued 21 Nov.
     • Development telecon presentation
     • ALMA Development Steering Committee (ADSC) (ALMA Deputy Director L. Ball, W. Wild, M. McKinnon, S. Iguchi, R. Hills), formed Oct 2011.
     • ALMA Board has provisionally endorsed some projects for further development.
     • Referees are scrutinizing the proposals
3. NSF portfolio review. Thanks for the input to the NSF portfolio review!
4. ASAC activities (ASAC members)
   • Recent Agenda, 14 March. I think JAO has blocked this to non-members again.
   • A response from the JAO to the ASAC recommendations is included at the ASAC agenda linked above.
   • The ASAC report will be distributed to ANASAC when it is reported to the ALMA Board
   • ASAC was asked to comment on the ANASAC Charge from last Fall: "The ANASAC is asked to comment on the scientific advantages of resiting ALMA Band 1 in frequency from 31.3-45 GHz to e.g. 34-53 GHz. Please note scientific advantages for the locations of the upper and lower edges of the band. Note that a paper on science goals of Band 1 is available in arXiv:0910.1609.' ( AI )
     • Sept 2011 Presentation from Johnstone
     • See also attachments:
       • Todd Hunter plot of effective areas.
       • Two Use Cases: NH2D and H2CO at 50 GHz with EVLA and ALMA. from A. Wootten
       • On Band 1 Frequency coverage from M. Saito
       • Band_1_note_REH.pdf: Note from R. Hills
5. Astronomer Outreach (Lonsdale, Wootten)
   • NAASC ALMA-related workshop(s) in 2012-3 (see below) ( AI )
6. Date of next telecon
   • 20 Apr 2012
7. Other Business
8. Astronomer Outreach: JAO ALMA Webpages; ALMA Newsletters; ARC-maintained wiki of ALMA science meetings and training events; NRAO eNews; NAOJ News.

Science Corner

1. A second ALMA SV data paper has appeared:
   • Evidence for Multiple Pathways to Deuterium Enhancements in Protoplanetary Disks. Karin I. Oberg, Chunhua Qi, David J. Wilner, Michiel R. Hogerheijde

Events of Interest

2012
16 Mar	2012		ANASAC Telecon
20 Apr	2012		ANASAC Telecon

Upcoming, very recent, or ongoing Meetings

1. 2012
   • Synthesis Imaging Workshop May 29 - June 5.
   • AAS No 220
     • June 14, 2:00-3:30pm Special Session.SS05.ALMA Early Science Results & Opportunities
   • 67th OSU International Symposium on Molecular Spectroscopy
   • USNC/URSI National Radio Science Meeting will be held the week of July 8-14, 2012, in Chicago, Illinois
   • New Trends in Radio Astronomy in the ALMA Era - The 30th Anniversary of Nobeyama Radio Observatory 3 December - 8 December 2012; The Prince Hotel, Hakone, Japan
   • Pan-Executive ALMA "First results" workshop in Chile: 12-15 Dec 2012. SOC, LOC orgainized and working.Working group: L. Testi, A. Wootten, M. Saito.
2. 2013
   • Taiwan would like to hold joint workshop with us in Hawaii, April 2013?
   • Exploring the Formation and Evolution of Planetary Systems: Victoria, B. C., 2 June 2013 - Friday, 7 June 2013
   • Protostars and Planets VI: Heidelberg; 15 July 2013 - Saturday, 20 July 2013

-- AlWootten - 2012-03-13

• Science_-_February_2012.pdf: Science section of February Report, from R. Hills.

• EVLA_ALMA_Band1_NH2D.pdf: Two Use Cases: NH2D and H2CO at 50 GHz with EVLA and ALMA.

• On_Band_1_Frequency_Coverage_forASAC.pdf: Band 1 Frequency coverage

• Band_1_note_REH.pdf: Note from R. Hills