Date: 5 July 2005
Time: 4:00 pm EDT ( 2:00 pm Socorro, 1:00 pm Tucson)
Phone: Phone: (434)296-7082 (CV SoundStation Premier Conference phone 3rd floor). No Video planned.
Past minutes, etc on MMA Imaging and Calibration Division Page
Topics
- Rebaselining. A number of issues arose for the Science IPT and others. Front End, Site, Management left to go.
- Frequency Switching -- A document: Frequency Switching on ALMA SCID-90.00.00.00-012-A-SPE is available at almaedm.
- ACA correlator PDR -- We are closing the issue on highest resolution modes.
- Nutator Requirements discussion continues. Comments to almaedm not wiki please. Finalize the Nutator Plan by 1 August.
- Early Science Modes: Our proposal for the TFB mode is a wideband mode for e.g. continuum simultaneous with a narrowband mode for e.g. a spectral line. Please comment; we don't have to be limited to one but without a specific group there could be nearly an infinite number. See ALMA Early Science Modes SCID-90.00.00.00-011-A-LIS.
News
- Draft ALMA, ACA Configurations -- Holdaway
- Characterization -- What needs to be done to get updated results posted? -- Wootten
- Antenna news -- TBD Kickoff meeting 28-29 July Dallas.
- Subarrays -- An option has arisen whereby the patch panel could accommodate any or all of the antennas available. See Subarray Wiki
Science Corner:
B6 Receiver results:
FITS images:
- S. Wolf Simulation of ALMA imaging a young planet. ALMA fits images + readme file in a gzipped tar file. Wolf writes: "These fits files correspond to the images shown in Fig 2. in my paper with G. D'Angelo (2005, ApJ 619, 1114). All information concerning these images (simulations + the "instrument" function of ALMA + assumed observing conditions) are described in that paper.
- G. Lodato Simulation of Massive Protostellar Disk. Lodato writes: "The resolution is 256x256. In this way the pixel size is also very close to the resolution length of the simulation. The value of each pixel is the surface density of the disc. What is missing in the header are the actual physical dimensions. This is because the simulations are scale-free and therefore can be scaled to different physical systems. One has to choose a unit length L and a unit mass M (which HAS to be the mass of the central star). The image then spans from -25*L to 25*L both in x and y and the surface density is expressed in the following units:
g/cm^2*(M/M_sun)(1AU/L)^2
which means that if your central star has a mass equal to one solar mass and the disc radius is 25AU (L=1AU), then the surface density is in cgs units.
Rebaselining
Calendar
Events of Interest
(see also Al's
ALMA Biweekly Calendar)
New! ALMA Calendar testing
2005 |
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Date |
Time |
Event |
location |
details |
Weds-Thurs |
July 6-7 |
all day |
Front End deltaPDR |
Garching |
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Weds |
July 13 |
1500UT |
ASAC Telecon |
Telecon |
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Mon-Tues |
July 26-27 |
all day |
System Requirements Review |
Cville |
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Thurs |
Aug 4 |
1500UT |
ALMA Board telecon |
Telephone |
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Friday |
August 26 |
2-3pm EDT |
ANASAC Telecon |
877-874-1919 PC=185064 |
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Thurs |
Sep 22 |
1500UT |
ALMA Board telecon |
Telephone |
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Friday |
October 28 |
2-3pm EDT |
ANASAC Telecon |
877-874-1919 PC=185064 |
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Tues-Weds |
Nov 1-2 |
1500UT |
ALMA Board Meeting |
Chile |
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Thurs |
Dec 8 |
1500UT |
ALMA Board telecon |
Telephone |
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Upcoming Meetings
Star Formation in the Era of Three Great Observatories July 13-15, 2005 in Cambridge, Massachusetts
Astrochemistry throughout the Universe: Recent Successes and Current Challenges 2005 August 29 - September 2; Asilomar, California
Protostars and Planets V 24 - 28 October 2005 Hilton Waikoloa Village, The Big Island, Hawaii
Mm/submm Techniques and Science session, at the
URSI General Assembly 2005 October 23-29, New Delhi, India
"IR Diagnostics of Galaxy Evolution". 14-16 November 2005, Pasadena, CA
50th anniversary of the founding of NRAO October 15-19, 2006; Charlottesville, Virginia
ALMA November 13-16; Madrid, Spain
See also
NAASC listing
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AlWootten - 05 Jul 2005