Nitrile Chemistry toward SgrB2N (PI: Corby)

• Submitted Proposal: Justification.pdf
• Joanna's submitted dissertation plan: DissertationPlanFINAL.doc

Mapping of the molecular envelope of the oxygen-rich AGB star W Hydrae (PI: Pulliam)

• Working draft of the proposal can be found here: WHYA_SulfurChem_RLP2_AJR2.doc
• Some notes on the correlator setup: I have been poking around the PST and we have a couple options...the 2IF w/FULL POL or the 1IF w/DUAL POL.
  • If we assume that the lines will be about 12km/s, I think we need to get at least 10 channels across the line or 20 channels across the line. I am more comfortable with 20 channels but we can discuss that. In that case, we want a velocity resolution of 0.6 km/s/channel. This means we want a frequency resolution of 62.5 kHz/channel.
  • So I vote for:
    • SO2 @ 29320 MHz - 16MHz DUAL POL at 62.5kHz/channel, 256 channels. For 10 hours, this give 36 micro Jy (57mK)
    • SO @ 30000 MHz - 16MHz DUAL POL at 62.5kHz/channel, 256 channels. For 10 hours, this give 36 micro Jy (57mK)
  • If you think 10channels across is ok, we can beef this up to 32MHz DUAL POL, 125 kHz/channel, 256 channels and an rms of 25.5 micro Jy (40mK) in 10hours.
    • In the final proposal, we went with this correlator setup
• Relevant Papers for this proposal:
  • 71950.web.pdf: Menten & Reid 2007
  • Hawkins_1990_WHYA.pdf
  • IMAI_2010_SiOMaserWHYA.pdf
  • Justtanont_2004_WHYA.pdf
  • SMuller_2008_WHYA.pdf

• Persons/group who can change the list:
  • Set ALLOWTOPICCHANGE = AstrochemGroup

• DissertationPlanFINAL.doc: Submitted dissertation plan for NRAO proposals, 10/1/2010