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- 2005-11-16 14:30 UT
- Duration: 1 hr
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- Leader: Al Wootten
Topics
- Old Business The enhanced Agenda from last month's meeting is available. Science IPT notes from last month's telecon are available.
DUSTY04 collection of papers relevant to ALMA.
- New Business--Project news/updates (Wootten, Wilson, Kawabe)
- Impacts of 2...7 antenna designs on the Science IPT? >~ 1 FTE software, algorithms; ~2 FTE CSV phase
- Impacts of 2...7 antenna designs on ALMA Science. Draft Science Impacts Document for comment.
- JAO Project Scientist Turno now in effect, Wootten in place.
- Schedule
- Directories
Science IPT Group Activity Reports
Please include your Group Activity Report here (How to Enter Your Report), or email it to AlWootten
- Science IPT -
- RFMembrane Science Requirements are being developed; no change from prototypes envisioned.
- Astronomer Outreach: NRAO Newsletter ESO Newsletter. NRAO ALMA Calendar
- Group Activities (all)
- Next meeting is on Nov 16th (14:30 UT)
Emerson/Laing/Vila-Vilaro -- Instrument Scientists
- System Requirements Review followup
Conway, Holdaway -- Configuration Group
Robert Lucas -- SSR
- Release R3 software integration in progress (2 weeks in Garching and 2 weeks in Socorro, with developers travelling there)
- Subsystems leads meetings in Charlottesville in November
- SSR meeting during October (2005-10-12)
- Face to Face Meeting in Charlottesville next month (2005-11-20/21)
Michiel Hogerheijde -- DRSP
- There still are two new DRSP projects under consideration: one is being revised and a second one is being reviewed. New projects are welcome at any time! Bally and Williams will work on one centering on proplyds.
- AIVSVC face-to-face meeting, perhaps in January
Mark Holdaway/Steve Myers -- Imaging
- One Board Change Proposal (BCP) which was adopted would cut 'Site Characterization', specifically salaries and travel. Consultation with R. Simon suggests that truck maintenance and other items may be included.
- Instrument report from Angel: ESO side:
- 12 GHz Interferometer, is still out of service due to a faulty DRO. I sugest we shut the 12 GHz interferometer down and we keep the working DRO left (on the west channel) as spare for the NRAO interferometer.
- 183 GHz radiometers. Eventually, the west radiometer must still be working and logging data. Every daily data file uses about 1.8 MBytes (compressed), so from the last backup in mid-August until now we might have accumulated about 160 MBytes of data, the space in the hard disk must be larger than this for a longer unattended operation. The East 183 GHz radiometer is not working because of a faulty V2F in one of the three channels.
- Probably the 1 Hz resolution anemometer and the small Davis weather stations are still logging data.
- Weather station data: The data logger has memory enough to store only about 45 days of data. Therefore, we have been loosing data already to the circular memory of the data logger.
- NRAO side:
- 225 GHz tipper. Based in the inspection of the data files we received in the last data backup, I see the last file didn;t have sensible data as an indication something was wrong with the tipper. I hope Lars-Ake did something (like recycling the power to the tipper and/or data logging computer) as to get a chance to restart the system to a healthy condition. Otherwise there is good chance we are not logging 225 GHz opacity data.
- I hope the 12 GHz inteferometer is still working, we have not receive a data backup from this instrument.
- GPS Receiver/Lightning Detector/CR4 hygrometer are robust units and the computers used for the data logging should have enough disk space to log data for a long time.
Science Corner:
Calendar
Official JAO Calendar New!!
ALMA Events of Interest
(see also Al's
ALMA Biweekly Calendar)
2005 |
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Day |
Date |
Time |
Event |
location |
details |
Tues-Weds |
Nov 1-2 |
1500UT |
ALMA Board Meeting |
Chile |
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Tues-Weds |
Nov 8-9 |
All Day |
ACA 12m pre-production Review |
Osaka |
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Thu-Fri |
Nov 10-11 |
All Day |
ACA System Review |
Tokyo |
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Mon-Tues |
Nov 21-22 |
All Day |
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Charlottesville |
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Thurs |
Dec 8 |
1500UT |
ALMA Board telecon |
Telephone |
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TBD |
week of 20 March |
all day |
ALMA Board Meeting |
Japan |
TBD |
TBD |
June 2006 |
all day |
ALMA Board Meeting |
Santiago |
TBD |
TBD |
November 2006 |
all day |
ALMA Board Meeting |
Madrid |
TBD |
Upcoming Meetings
Protostars and Planets V 24 - 28 October 2005 Hilton Waikoloa Village, The Big Island, Hawaii
Mm/submm Techniques and Science session, at the
URSI General Assembly 2005 October 23-29, New Delhi, India
"IR Diagnostics of Galaxy Evolution". 14-16 November 2005, Pasadena, CA
Latin American IAU Regional Meeting 10-16 December, Pucon, Chile
URSI Commission J Meeting 4-6 January 2005, Boulder
From ZMachines to ALMA 13-14 January, Charlottesville, VA
50th anniversary of the founding of NRAO October 15-19, 2006; Charlottesville, Virginia
ALMA November 13-16; Madrid, Spain
See also
NAASC listing
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AlWootten - 21 Oct 2005