Contact Information Agenda/Minutes for meeting Tuesday, 2 January at 4:00 pm EST.

Date: 2 January 2007

Time: 4:00 pm EST (4:00 pm Santiago; 2:00 pm Socorro, 2:00 pm Tucson)

Phone: Phone: (434)296-7082 (CV SoundStation Premier Conference phone 3rd floor). No Video planned.

Past agendas, etc on MMA Imaging and Calibration Division Page. Discussion notes in Red font

News

New ESO renditions of the array. See other images and animations.

1. Ongoing Items
   • ASAC meets 10 Jan. No charges yet, but they are expected on the subjects of TACs and DRSPs.
   • ALMA Construction Picture Gallery
   • Project Scientist plan.
   • ALMA Safety Requirements Clarify NRAO vs ALMA rules!

Topics

• News
  • Unilateral Antenna Spec Changes: ACA 7m Comments?
  • TICRA reports
  • Schedule. SCIE Early Science Key Triggers
    • CSV = 3 ant ready to be commissioned (29Mar2009 as of today's schedule)
    • ESDP = CSV + 12 = 29Jan2010 (at this date we would be ready to commission Ant#16 more or less)
    • ES = CSV + 20 = 29Sep2010 (at this date we would be ready to commission Ant#26 more or less, which should be fine in respect to the "minimum" requirement of 16 ant array)
  • ATF: CIPT and Sci IPT will share the use of the ATF the week of 2 Jan. As per discussions with Darrel, Brian, Dick and Al the current schedule is below. Please let Debra know if anyone has any issues with this.

2006
Day	Event
2 - 5 Jan	Darrel and Angel at ATF
16 Jan	Start astronomical interferometry
15 - 19 Feb	OPT validation on AEC antenna

• VertexRSI antenna review report not yet available.
• Extended configuration (Mark Holdaway).
• Sci IPT f2f meeting this year
• AWGonSLF
• DRSP
• PSI Workshop Jan 2007 Science Commissioning detail plan -
  • Task: optical & radiometric & Int pointing model
  • Task: antenna location calibration
  • Task: amplitude & phase calibration
  • Task: spectral line calibration
  • Task: polarization calibration
  • Task: test/science observations
  • Support: diagnostics for PSI & COMP

Science Corner:

Calendar

Official JAO Calendar New!!

Events of Interest

(see also Al's ALMA Biweekly Calendar)

Day	Date	Time (EST)	Event	location	details
2006

	Dec 6-7	all day	ACA correlator CDR	Japan
Thu	Dec 7		ALMA Board Telecon	Telecon
	Dec 14	all day	LLC and LO Photonic Rx DR	Cville
We	Dec 20	1430UT	ALMA Sci IPT Telecon	Telecon
Wed	Dec 6	1430UT	ASAC Telecon	Telecon
Wed	Jan 3 '07	1800UT	NAASC Telecon	Telecon
Wed	Jan 10	1430UT	ASAC Telecon	Telecon
	Jan 16-17	all day	Transporter FDR
Thu	Jan 18	1430UT	ALMA Board Telecon	Telecon
	Jan 30	all day	AEM antenna PPDR
	Feb 6-7	all day	B9 Cartridge CDR
Thu	Feb 15		ALMA Board Telecon	Telecon

Upcoming Meetings

AAS Meeting 5-10 Jan, 2007, Seattle, Washington

Asian Radio Astronomy Winter School January 22-26, 2007 National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ), Mitaka, Tokyo, Japan

ESO workshop "Observing planetary systems" 2007 March 5-8, Santiago

Astrophysical Masers and their Environments 2007 March 12-16, Alice Springs, Australia

Frontiers of Astrophysics, a Celebration of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory's 50th Anniversary", June 18-21, 2007, Charlottesville.

Transformational Science with ALMA: Through Disks to Stars and Planets June 22-24, 2007, Cville

North American URSI meeting July 22-26, Ottawa

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

See also NAASC listing

-- AlWootten - 02 Jan 2007