ALMA North American Science Advisory Committee

; ALMA North American Science Advisory Committee Telecon meeting Jun 2, 2011

View of thirteen ALMA antennas at the AOS late May 2011. ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO), J. Guarda (ALMA)

Contact Information for those calling in.

• Call date: 2011-06-2 02:00 pm EDT or 18:00 UT (Thursday)
• Duration: 1 hr
  * USA Number: 1-888-989-3306
  
• Outside USA Number: +1 517 968 4643
  
• Passcode: 2935920#
  
• Leaders: A. Bolatto, C. Lonsdale

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• Attendees:

Topics

1. Old Business The enhanced Agenda from last meeting is available. Minutes from that telecon are available.

Discussion Items

1. Report on ALMA progress at Chile (Wootten)
   • For a recent summary see Science portion of last JAO Report: ALMA JAO Science Report attached at bottom.
     • Science Verification Projects
     • SV Progress: See Science section of April Report, from R. Hills Science Report.
   • Previous reports for the project as a whole are at ALMA Monthly Reports.
   • Fourteen antennas are available at the AOS.
   • Birdseye view of the antenna locations. Notice that antennas are being redeployed from the (full) ACA pads to pads in the NE quadrant of the compact configuration. This results in a rather smaller beam, but one which is not circular, for upcoming SV projects.
   • Last night: Weather: pwv started at 3 mm 5/30, dropped to 2mm, worst day in the week. see APEX Weather.
   • Furthermore at the OSF, PM04 and CM01 (NAOJ 12m and 7m antennas, respectively) are engaged in interferometry.
2. update on the preparations for ES
   • update on ALMA community day events: What worked and what didn't? (Lonsdale)
   • Archive opening, SV data. (Hibbard)
   • Impact of NOI results. Are there other user counts? (Hibbard)
   • Plans for further community outreach (Lonsdale)
   • Plans to highlight ALMA ES results
3. update on NA call for ALMA development proposals (Wootten)
   • See ALMA Development Workshop presentations are on line.
   • Call for studies to go out soon. Needs NSF approvals.
   • Resiting band 1 from 31.3 - 45 GHz to e.g. 34-53 GHz. See 31-45 GHz science case; discussion on resiting in talk by Johnstone, presentation at Devpt workshop.
4. ASAC activities
   • Recent Agenda, 11 May. Note that agendas are now only visible to ASAC members, unfortunately.
   • ASAC_charges_October2011-3.pdf: ASAC Charges for Report to Nov 2011 ALMA Board meeting
5. Astronomer Outreach:
   • NAASC ALMA-related workshop(s) in 2011 (+)
     • Meeting title: "Outflows, Winds and Jets: from Young Stars to Supermassive Black Holes"
     • Committees (SOC) NAASC: Lonsdale, Lacy, Brogan, Kimball; ANASAC: Neufeld, Padgett, Scott, Williams, Wilner; Taiwan: Hsien, Ho; GBT, EVLA, VLBA: Lockman, Chandler
       • Mar 3-6, 2012, Charlottesville
6. Any Other Business
7. Astronomer Outreach: JAO ALMA Webpages; ALMA Newsletters; ARC-maintained wiki of ALMA science meetings and training events; NRAO eNews; NAOJ News.

Science Corner

Events of Interest

2011
Day	Date	Time	Event	location	details
1 Jun	2011		ALMA ES Proposals	JAO/NAASC	Archive opens
30 Jun	2011		ALMA ES Proposal Deadline	JAO/NAASC
30 Sept	2011		ASAC ES Commences	JAO
5-6 Oct	2011		ASAC f2f	NAASC

Upcoming, very recent, or ongoing Meetings

218th AAS Meeting May 22-26, 2011 Boston, MA

The Molecular Universe May 30 - June 3, 2011 Toledo, Spain

Star Formation through Spectroimaging at High Angular Resolution June 20-24, 2011 Taipei

Sixth NAIC/NRAO School on Single Dish Radio Astronomy Jul 10 - 16, 2011 Green Bank, WV

-- AlWootten - 2011-05-31

• ASAC_charges_October2011-3.pdf: ASAC Charges for Report to Nov 2011 ALMA Board meeting

• Science_-_May_2011.pdf: Science section of May Report, from R. Hills, added after telecon