NAASC Third Wednesday Team Meetings; A. Wootten Lead

Meeting Logistics:

• Call time 13:00 ET or 18:00 UT
• Locations: NOTE ONE-TIME LOCATION CHANGES: CV-ER-AUD/TUC-N525/NRC/AOC-223 Rm/JAO-Alsacia/JAO-OSF(Science)
• Connection for Video:
  • From NRAO select "CV-ERAUD"
  • hub ip=192.33.117.18
  • alternative ip for Chile only, if above drops: 192.33.117.18
• Phone: N/A

Agenda & Minutes, 1:00pm March 21, 2011 (3rd Wednesday)

• News & Information
  • Thanks for persevering during these many activities!

Looking Ahead

Upcoming Timeline (click to open)

• NAASC Focus Items

• ES Cycle 0 instrument status
  • P2G? for ES Cyc0 observations. No observations have begun for Block 11 but they are expected before it ends.
  • CSV observations of the M95 SN occurred last night
• ES Cycle 1 preparedness
  • Technical Handbook document reviews
• Other Topics from Groups & Teams
  • NRC (Gerald) (cannot attend)
    • Expecting to get a draft of the Primer out to the NAASC USG by Thursday
    • GS had a productive visit to NRAO two weeks ago.
    • HIA is querying the Canadian community about interest in holding Cycle 1 tutorials once again.
  • Taiwan (Aaron)
    • "From Dust to Rocks to Planets" proposed for 1st-2nd week of April.
  • Science
    • Congratulations on Estimating the Star Formation Rate at 1 kpc Scales in Nearby Galaxies to Adam K. Leroy, ... Juan-Carlos Munoz-Mateos,... and others.
  • AAS Meeting
  • Project news and CSV (Al, Stuartt)
    • ALMA-J signed the MoU? between NAOJ and KASI concerning ALMA. KASI is Korean Astronomical Science Institute. Another ALMA nation!
    • 34th antenna delivery. AOS slowly building up a working complement of antennas. Block 10 ES scrubbed, Block 11 threatened but may get some data.
    • Spectrum and fringes at B8 on ACA antennas achieved.
  • Science Communications (Mark Adams)
    • Contributions for eNews - due Friday, March 23 - Draft April Submissions wiki
    • Perhaps do a separate eNews for Pre-Announcement (April 3)
  • EPO (John Stoke)
  • User Support Group (Carol)
    • Have proposed to commmunity for CDEs; not pushing it this time, also have not had any requests.
    • Proposing to do a Webinar - will discuss at USG meeting tomorrow
    • CDE is Green Bank
    • Primer science examples are completed; draft Primer by end of week.
    • Revised call materials are in hand; will be discussed at USG meeting tomorrow.
    • New science examples and/or simulations will be discussed, but waiting for all material.
  • Data Services Group & Computing (Mark L / David H)
    • Cluster Scheduler Walkthrough. Nodes 1-8 are on Google calendar. Dan has been working on a more automated system for nodes 9-24.
    • Eight datasets delivered to PIs; 9th is in process, 10th is in QA2
    • New Software Engineer II: S. Loveland; will be working on her work load over next few weeks; please let Mark know if you have ideas for this.
    • Crystal (P2G note): Crystal and Remy have been processing data; flex sensitivity calculator issue. Request Contact Scientists should push P2G to include backup calculators. Register on P2G jira ticket.
  • JAO Support Group (John)
  • Documentation review
    • • Cycle 1 Capabilities
      • Proposer's Guide: What do you as a proposer need to know that is missing or unclear?
      • Technical Handbook
        • ALMA_Cycle-1_Technical_Handbook_Assignments.txt: Technical Handbook Reviewers
        • What is missing?
    • Integrated Test 6
      • Phase 1 (all) Apr 9-13
      • APRC Meetings Apr 23-27 SCO
    • Upcoming AoD
    • SP article link
    • please update jira ticket to be consistent with spreadsheet, before you contact PI. Use Helpdesk ticket to relate to PI status of SBs that were prepared. Scott: No point in contacting PIs who already have all their data. Template email replies called "Compact Status" available.
    • Technical handbook - assignments made in Dec: send comments (factually or conceptually wrong or unclear) to ESO contact with CC to J. Hibbard. Deadline March 30 - please send to John H by Mar 29.
    • March 30 updates to batch 1 and II.
  • Tiger Team (Crystal)
  • Additional reports from teams / individuals

• ALMA_Cycle-1_Technical_Handbook_Assignments.txt: Technical Handbook Reviewers