User Support Group Meeting Minutes for August, 10, 2010: Primer
Agreed pronounciation of Primer, with strong "eye" (same as the under coating of your car)
Agreed next meeting MONDAY August, 16 (only day Crystal is available next week)
Primer decisions/plan:
Gerald/Doug to implement typo/small changes suggested in emails, and then freeze current document for posterity. Copy this version to new "Early Science Primer"
Agreed actions for Early Science Primer:
Draft due Sept. 1 (time needed to iterate with NAASC and JAO before Sept. 28 deadline)
Have a last updated date on the front cover
Length be not much longer than now after revamping process is done.
Remove all but ALMA logo unless told otherwise by project
Have an early science focus, but retain comparitive wording with full ALMA capabilities, these will be distinguished throughout by color or other visual que. For exmaple page 8 currently has full science tables -> ADD early science.
More links to technical information, ALMA memos and the like
Page 11: convert to more world ALMA view (now focused on NAASC) and core ARC deliverables.
For important ALMA content, like OT, simdata etc, create "Learn More" call out boxes
Move Observations and Data Reduction section to after Science Examples
Would like to replace some of current "place-holder" images of site (towards end of current Primer with examples of ideas discussed in Observations and Data Reduction section
Check list of what you need to think about to come up with science case just before science examples (i.e. resolution, sensitivity, largest angular scale) etc
More about spectral setup/correlator capability at early science
Science Examples
Agreed need to replace current 9 full science examples with Early Science focused ones. Current full science examples should be extracted into stand alone document that can be accessed from NAASC webpages and be a link in Primer document.
Agreed need to try and bridge gap between formal sensitivity estimates and expected real world performance and image quality.
For each Science example (or perhaps as few as three) show a single screen capture aspect of OT (could show spatial editor in action, another could show spectral setup, etc)
Example should have nice color figure from published work
Observation lengths in 2-4 hour range probably best
Agreed that SMA, CARMA, and PdBI all need to have examples represented.
Solar system body - Al?, Tony
Protoplanetary disk - Rachel, Scott, Stuartt?
Line survey of Massive Protostar - Crystal, Todd
Molecular gas and dust in Nearby Galaxy - Adam, Kartik
High redshift dust and spectral line - Kartik, Aaron, John
We will discuss draft science examples at August 24 USG meeting, please have 2-page powerpoint showing your concept. Examples due to HIA by August 30.
Things we'd like to add by CfP or AAS (which ever comes first)
Simulation showing generic example of simulation with 16 vs 50 antennas to come right after early science vs. full science tables.
OT Templates and/or casaguide like OT walk-thrus for the 5 Early Science Examples