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  • 2007-7-18 14:30 UT Please check your local time; it may have changed!
  • Duration: 1 hr
  • USA Toll Free Number: 877-874-1919
  • Toll Number: +1-203-320-9891
  • Passcode: 185064
  • Leader: Al Wootten
  • Attendees: Hunter, Morita, Bojan, Hills, Peck, Emerson, Testi, Ocampo, Mangum, Remijan, Reid, Wootten, Hibbard, Hales, Fomalont, Indebetouw, Brogan

Topics

  1. Old Business The enhanced Agenda from last meeting is available. Science IPT notes from last month's telecon are in the agenda in blue.

OSF Warehouse View The OSF Technical Facility warehouse is approaching completion. See other images and animations. See other images.

  1. New Business--Project news/updates (Wootten, Testi, Morita)
    • ASAC agenda for telecon just completed.
      • JAO Response to ASAC Report
      • Comments from Board Meeting (Peck)
      • New Charges from Board, to be reported upon at 30-31 October 2007 meeting in Santiago.
        • Software status for early science. review recommendations of recent software review and schedule.
        • Revisit charge from Apr2007 on correlator requirements. Focus on Early science, which modes enable majority of science? What other capabilities are important?
        • Review calibration plan in conjunction with AIV and CSV activities.
    • AAER plan - first draft
  2. Standard documents
  3. JAO Project Scientist Turno now in effect transitioned to Wootten.
  4. Current Science IPT Schedule. Current Operations Schedule. Schematic IPS. (2007 July 13)
  5. 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

  1. Science IPT -
2007
 
Day Event
July 8-15
Emerson: Radiometric pointing

  1. Astronomer Outreach: NRAO Newsletter ESO Newsletter NAOJNews. NRAO ALMA Calendar
  2. ARCs.
  3. Group Activities (all)
  4. Next meeting is on August 15th (14:30 UT). September 19th for the following month.

Emerson/Laing/Vila-Vilaro -- Instrument Scientists

Conway, Holdaway -- Configuration Group

  • The Technical specifications and SOW for the IFB for the AOS Road network design have been completed. A design for road and fiber network at the high site is to be bid for construction shortly. Design of the extended array is complete; bids for antenna pad construction are out.
  • Final configuration design. We continue to assess performance (see imaging, below). Tony will set up an independent group to assess configuration performance.
  • New <4km Configuration submitted for approval Passed CCB.
  • Proposed ACA Configuration approved.
  • ArrayCenter shows photos of the region of the center of the Array.

Jeff Mangum -- Calibration

  • Semi-transparent Vane Report has been received.
  • Pointing Design document now drafted.
  • Calibration Plan: Current version of the calibration plan and associated documents ("examples", "roadmaps", "matrices", etc.) posted. Comments welcome.
  • Calibration Examples: The "meat" of the Calibration Plan. Review of these documents nearly complete, some need updates.
  • Ancillary Calibration Devices: Documents which describe the weather station and temperature profile technical specifications have been developed. Initial purchase documentation for (P,T,RH,Ws,Wdir) measurement devices sent to Robert Laing. NOTE: I need suggested vendors for the temperature profiler.

Robert Lucas -- SSR

  • Latest SSR meeting (2007-05-09); June meeting cancelled due to time conflict with Computing Leads meeting; no July meeting while group leader recharges his batteries.
  • Critical Design Review 5 occurred in May. Generally successful. See ASAC Charge.
  • Computing IPT subsystem leads met in Socorro last month.
    • New ATF 'csar' Jeff Kern, leads a team dedicated to 24/7 ATF support (but some effort diverted from development).
    • Integration/testing of Single Dish in July/Aug at ATF
    • Integration/testing of interferometry starting also : September; continued until ATF stops.
    • Many implementation details discussed and clarified.
  • WVR software meeting in Grenoble currently (TelCal)
  • ASDM changes being implemented/integrated. Freezout intended for end of year.

Michiel Hogerheijde -- DRSP See ASAC presentation on this subject, linked above.

  • All DRSP2.0 projects have now been reviewed and response of the authors is requested by Friday April 20. On April 17 a preliminary analysis was discussed by ESAC. The main conclusions were
    • Out of 149 projects from 53 authors, 42 were revised w.r.t. DRSP 1.0; 18 are entirely new; and the reminder (85) was either unchanged or no response was received (but still reviewed).
    • The distribution over science areas has not changed much.
    • Integration times were tweaked here and there, but the main uncertainty lies in including realistic overheads.
    • Quite a few projects requested cross-correlation of the 7m ACA antennas with the baseline-ALMA 12m antennas. While for some projects this is indeed essential, for most this was used only to increase the sensitivity. In terms of scheduling and operations this may be undesirable, and this needs to be reflected in the DRSP to make sure the 7m*12m is not 'overbooked'. How do we want to do the bookkeeping on the 7m*12m requests?
    • Details of the DRSP 2.0 still need to be entered into a spreadsheet, and a tally will be made of requested bandwidths / spectral resolution settings for later translation into correlator modes. OT is almost ready to try this out using DRSP 2.0 projects.
  • Hogerheijde presentation on DRSP2.0 to the ASAC

Once the response of the authors is in, the DRSP2.0 will go on-line without password protection.

Robert Laing -- Commissioning and Science Verification

Mark Holdaway/Steve Myers, Reid -- Imaging

  • CASA Simulator Report

  • Pointing selfcalibration for mosaics

L.-A. Nyman -- Site Characterization

  • The weather station 50-100m north of the APEX antenna was removed to the OSF. Its mounting pole was also removed.
  • The battery bank ESO2 now supplying power at the AOS will be moved to the guardhouse at the intersection of CH23 and the ALMA Road. Ulf Kaberger to implement; presumed done now but no confirmation has been received.

Remijan, Markwick-Kemper -- ALMA Working Group on Spectral Line Frequencies

  • Splatalogue.net became active this week after setting up the database in Manchester and putting out some fires with the database (i.e. server crashing, etc.)
  • AJMK and TR now both have access to the Splatalogue database in Manchester.
  • The database mirror has been set up at NRAO-CV.
  • AJMK is working on the ~200 edits sent by TR for resolving the QNs in the database.

Science Corner:

Talks from the recent Disks Conference in Charlottesville: Transformational Science with ALMA: Through Disks to Stars and Planets

Calendar

Official JAO Calendar

ALMA Events of Interest

(see also Al's ALMA Biweekly Calendar)
2007
 
 
 
 
 
Day Date Time Event location details
WeTh
Jun 27-28
all day
ALMA Board Meeting
f2f
Santiago
We
Jul 11
1430UT
ASAC
Telecon
 
We
Jul 18
1430UT
ALMA Sci IPT Telecon
Telecon
 
We
Aug 1
1430UT
ASAC
Telecon
 
We
Aug 15
1430UT
ALMA Sci IPT Telecon
Telecon
 
 
Sep 10-12
all day
Director's Review of ALMA
f2f
Satniago
We
Sep 19
1430UT
ALMA Sci IPT Telecon
Telecon
 
 
Sep 24
all day
B6/B3 CDR
f2f
Cville
TuWe
Oct 30-31
all day
ALMA Board Meeting
f2f
Santiago
Mo
Nov 5
all day
ALMA Peoduction Review
f2f
Santiago

Upcoming Meetings

North American URSI meeting July 22-26, Ottawa; Emerson, Reid attending.

ALMA Community Meeting and the Workshop on Surveys for ALMA 3-6 Sept, Garching. Testi, Laing attending, perhaps others.

Astrophysics in the Next Decade: JWST and Concurrent Facilities September 24-27, 2007, Tucson Arizona Wootten, Testi, Brogan attending.

See also NAASC listing

-- AlWootten - 17 Jul 2007
Topic revision: r6 - 2010-08-03, ToddHunter
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