Date: 4 April 2006
Time: 4:00 pm EDT (4:00 pm Santiago; 2:00 pm Socorro, 1:00 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
The AOS TB Shell Arises: 8 Mar
- Construction Progress slideshow
- NSF Review: Status
- Characterization -- Move to Ops?
Topics
- Science Requirements -- Yet another Version of the revised document will need to be written.
- AIVCSV face-to-face/SRR followup -- April 24/25 Garching, available video feed.
- EPO items:
- Talk on ALMA Ops, NAASC in Victoria 17 August at Submillimeter Observing Techniques school. Any volunteers?
- Talk on Great Observatories, 22-24 May in Pasadena. Volunteers? Blain? Carilli?
- ITU; Spectral line items.
- Tony Remijan has looked into this over the last couple weeks and has some leads on trying to find some private funding. Tony talked to John Pearson at the ACS meeting last week about it and John said he can accept money from the private sector. The question that Tony is still looking into is if this will be a "contribution" from the company or if they will want to have some of their own work done in the lab if they help finance it. It is slow going by some progress is being made.
- ICDs:
- Calibration: There will be a followup Systems Requirements Review (SRR) on 2006 April 24-25 0900UT-1600UT. A timing diagram was prepared by SEI for discussion there (see the following figure produced for discussion and please discuss it.) In this example, fast switching between B9 and B3 is envisaged. Details of laser
design suggest that fast switching between
any two bands may be expensive.
Will B3 always be the reference band?
Solar calibration is a subject of some urgency. An example document should be written. With the Solar Filter in, there will be no use of the WVR, of any other band (no fast switching) and there will be no use of the amplitude calibration device. This is urgent.
- Polarization widget. FE Specs were grabbed from thin air somewhere and say: "4.3.4 Quarter-Wave-Plate [FEND-40.00.00.00-00280-00 / T] A quarter wave plate that can be inserted into the beam of band 7 shall be provided. The centre frequency of the quarter wave plate shall be 345 GHz. The combined absorptive and reflective losses shall be less than 0.5 dB. The induced cross-polar component shall be less than 10 %. These specifications shall apply over the frequency range from 340 to 350 GHz." We need to provide input; led by Crystal. Previous discussion 3OCT2000 focussed on B6. Previous discussion Feb 2003 discussed approaches.
- ASAC Charge in agenda.
Science Corner:
From F. Combes zmachines talk: An L* galaxy at z=2
Calendar
Official JAO Calendar New!!
Events of Interest
(see also Al's
ALMA Biweekly Calendar)
2005 |
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Day |
Date |
Time (EST) |
Event |
location |
details |
Weds |
29 March |
all day |
ALMA Day, JAS |
Wakayama, Kansai |
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Weds |
5 Apr |
11am EDT |
ASAC |
Telecon |
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Weds |
5 Apr |
1:30 pm EDT |
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Telecon |
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Mon-Tues |
24-5 April |
all day |
ALMA SRR Followup Meeting |
Garching |
CV-230 |
Thurs |
27 April |
11amEDT? |
ALMA Board |
Telecon |
TBD |
Fri |
28 April |
2pm EDT |
ANASAC |
Telecon |
TBD |
Tues-Weds |
13-14 June 2006? |
all day |
ALMA Board Meeting |
Santiago |
TBD |
Thurs-Fri |
9-10 November 2006 |
all day |
ALMA Board Meeting |
Madrid |
TBD |
Upcoming Meetings
Complex Molecules in Space: present status and prospects with ALMA May 8 to 11, 2006, Fuglsoecentret, near Aarhus, Denmark
MAKING THE MOST OF THE GREAT OBSERVATORIES May 22-24, 2006 Pasadena, CA
SPIE 24-31 May, Orlando, Florida
61st OSU International Symposium on Molecular Spectroscopy, June 19-23, 2006, Columbus Ohio USA
IAU XXVI General Assembly Prague, 14-25 August 2006
Sessions of Particular ALMA Interest
50th anniversary of the founding of NRAO October 15-19, 2006; Charlottesville, Virginia
Science with the Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) II November 13-16; Madrid, Spain
See also
NAASC listing
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AlWootten - 03 Apr 2006