ALMA North American Science Advisory Committee

Contact Information for those calling in.

  • Call date: 2014-2-20 2:00 pm EST or 19:00 UT (Thursday (Friday in Taipei))
  • Duration: 1 hr
    * USA Number: 1-866-692-4538
  • Outside Tokyo in Japan Number: 0066-33-132434
  • Outside USA +1-517-466-2084
  • Passcode: 9480444#
  • Confirmation Number: 1883473
  • Leaders: A. Bolatto, P. Jewell, A. Wootten
  • CV Room: 245


  • Attendees:

Topics

  1. Old Business The enhanced Agenda from last meeting and minutes are available.
  2. New Business under Discussion.

Discussion Items

  1. NAASC (Jewell)
    • As Ted Bergin has been appointed to the Visiting Committee, he has resigned from ANASAC. Thanks to Ted for his participation over the past two years.
    • CURRENT PRIORITIES [Week of Feb 17, 2014]
      • Data reduction
      • CASA testing
      • P2G: Technical Assessments: Feb 7-18; F2F 25-28
      • AoD assignments
      • Pipeline testing
      • Cycle 1 style re-deliveries: ongoing for next several weeks
    • First meeting under the new Terms of Reference (top of page)
    • ANASAC F2F Meeting 28 May
    • ASAC F2F meeting 31 Jan thru 1 Feb 2014, JAO
    • ALMA Development (Wootten)
  2. Science Status (Hibbard)
    • Observing Status
      • Antennas at the AOS: 62 (50x12m, 12x7m). Antennas at the OSF: 2.
      • Locations Array is similar to C32-1.
      • Recent night: 38 antennas available for observation (28x12m, 8x7m)
      • Cycle 1 observations have completed two additional blocks since last telecon (Sessions 21 & 22); 59% efficiency in those two for the 12m array.
        • Projects: 89 with some observations (207 SBs); 70 with some components completed (165 SBs); 18 with some deliveries (38 SBs); 6 completed (10 SBs)
        • Data reduction: 46 projects being processed (81 SBs); 23 in the queue (36 SBs)
      • APeck (CSV support) in Chile.
  3. NAASC during Early Science
    • NAASC TV
    • Cycle 2 Statistics summary in Science Portal and NRAO eNews.
    • Cycle 1 Support:
      • In-house Data Reduction: 81 EBs processed or being processed. 22 SBs QA2 PASS. Currently: staff reducing 12 SBs.
      • NA Data Deliveries: 22 SBs for 8 projects, 25 in flight.
      • 1 Data Reduction visits since last telecon.
    • People
      • Postdoc offer made.
  4. Astronomer Outreach
  5. Date of next telecon
    • 17 April 2014
    • Proposed dates for 2014 telecons: 20 Feb,17 Apr, 28 May (f2f), 17 Jul,18 Sep,20 Nov
  6. Other Business

Science Corner

  1. Memos and papers of note
    • 96 published refereed ALMA papers, 63 from Cycle 0 and 1 from Cycle 1. There are 130 papers of all flavors with 751 citations.
  2. Recent releases
  3. ALMA Papers (choose ALMA) 110 and counting (more on arxiv not yet listed here)

Events of Interest

2014
 
 
 
 
 
20 Feb 2014
 
ANASAC Telecon
 
 
10 Mar 2014
week of
ALMA Proposal Reviews Cycle 2
 
 
10 Mar 2014
week of
ALMA Board Meetings, Santiago
 
 
17 Apr 2014
 
ANASAC Telecon
 
 

(see also google calendars)

Upcoming, very recent, or ongoing Meetings

  1. ALMA Science Meetings
  2. ALMA Training Events

-- AlWootten - 2014-02-01

Topic attachments
I Attachment Action Size Date Who Comment
ALMA_Development_FundedSummary-Projects2013.pdfpdf ALMA_Development_FundedSummary-Projects2013.pdf manage 66 K 2014-02-20 - 11:08 AlWootten Review Process and Proposed Project Slate
ALMA_Development_PROJECTSv25.pdfpdf ALMA_Development_PROJECTSv25.pdf manage 4 MB 2014-02-02 - 19:35 AlWootten ALMA NA Projects Funded 2014-2015
NA_ALMA_Dev_2014_Study_Sum_v2.pdfpdf NA_ALMA_Dev_2014_Study_Sum_v2.pdf manage 445 K 2014-02-02 - 19:36 AlWootten ALMA Studies Funded 2014-2015
Topic revision: r8 - 2014-02-20, AlWootten
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