[alma-config]ALMA Configuration Design Review
Al Wootten
awootten at NRAO.EDU
Thu Jan 10 17:02:16 EST 2002
To Configuration Group and Interested Parties
Details of the Configuration DR
Date: January 24-25, 2002
Location: Array Operations Center, NRAO, Socorro, N. M.
Pre-meeting telecon:
According to my notes, to be held 15 January at 1445 UT, for the alma-config
mailing list. A strawman agenda will be discussed.
Access:
Fly into Albuquerque. It is about 70 miles, one hour, to Socorro. See
http://www.aoc.nrao.edu/vla/html/aocdir.shtml
To reach the AOC, you must either rent a car, or take a shuttle,
which is ~$50 each direction, to get from the airport
to Socorro.
Lodging:
The CDR occurs just after the EVLA LO/IF PDR to be held 22-23 Jan, and
before the NSF review of AUI, to be held the following week. We will
lodge visitors in the Visiting Scientist Quarters and local hotels.
Please let me know your plans for arrival and departure dates as soon as
possible, if you have not already. Please contact 'nmreserv at aoc.nrao.edu'
or go to http://www.aoc.nrao.edu/cgi-bin/visitor.cgi
to make your lodging reservations.
Note that if you plan a Saturday night stayover, the ski areas
at Santa Fe (quite a charming town) are about an hour north of the airport
in Albuquerque. If enough are interested in visiting the VLA, about an
hour west of Socorro, that may be arranged also. You will not see much of
the ALMA prototype antenna at this early date.
2) I have had an indication of plans to attend from the following:
Checked against memory and notes but not original emails 1/7
Confirmed or intimated they were coming or someone else who should know
said they were coming
Bryan Butler bbutler at nrao.edu
Leonia Kogan lkogan at nrao.edu
Steve Myers smyers at nrao.edu
John Conway John Conway <jconway at oso.chalmers.se>
Stephane Guilloteau "Stephane Guilloteau" <guillote at iram.fr>
Mark Holdaway mholdawa at nrao.edu
Jeff Kingsley, Antenna Division Head jkingsle at nrao.edu
Jeff Mangum, jmangum at nrao.edu
Koh-Ichiro Morita "Morita, Koh-Ichiro" <morita at nro.nao.ac.jp>
Simon Radford, Site Division Head sradford at nrao.edu
Gie Han Tan, System engineering Gie Han Tan <ghtan at eso.org>
Adrian Webster
Angel Otarola
Al Wootten
David Woody
"Seiichi Sakamoto" <seiichi at nro.nao.ac.jp>
Mel Wright
Dick Sramek
Peter Gray
Tim Cornwell
Brian Glendenning
Craig Walker cwalker at nrao.edu
Tim Cornwell
Michael Rupen
Rick Perley
Crystal Brogan cbrogan at nrao.edu
confirmed not coming
Dick Kurz <rkurz at eso.org>,
"Jacob Baars" <jbaars at eso.org>,
"Robert Brown" <rbrown at NRAO.EDU>,
"Marc Rafal" <mrafal at NRAO.EDU>,
Lee Mundy has SOFIA meeting 1/25
Not confirmed
Frederic Gueth Frederic Gueth <gueth at iram.fr>
Steven Heddle "Steven Heddle" <steven at kw15.co.uk>
Jerome Pety <pety at iraux2.iram.fr>
Francois Viallefond
Frederic Boone <frederic_boone at yahoo.fr>
Frazer Owen
Invited members / reviewers
Douglas Bock (unconfirmed)
Mel Wright
David Woody
3) Documents
See Bryan Butler's compendium of recent memos, etc, attached.
- Spiral concept (Conway)
See http://www.oso.chalmers.se/~jconway/ALMA/SIMULATIONS/
John promises new material Monday...
- uv-metric concept (Boone)
http://www.cv.nrao.edu/~awootten/mmaimcal/boone_cdr.ps.gz
- Hybrid concept (Webster)
http://www.cv.nrao.edu/~awootten/mmaimcal/adrian_ps.zip
4) Goal of the meeting: select a baseline design to continue with detailed
implementation work ...
CDR Review Guidelines Version 2 - 98November09 P. J. Napier
The purpose of the CDR of an MMA Subsystem is principally to review 3
questions:
(1) Are the detailed requirements for the subsystem complete and adequate?
(2) Will the design selected for implementation on the test array meet the
requirements?
(3) Are interfaces to other subsystems defined adequately and completely?
(4) Has adequate attention been given to the produceability and maintainability
of the subsystem?
Meeting organization and attendance to be the same as a PDR. MMA199901-0010
Actually, there are four, and we aren't MMA anymore but the rules have not
changed...I think that we should leave this meeting with one design and
one philosophy to guide iterative changes. This design will then be passed to
engineers. When we understand contraints imposed by the site construction
plan and iterate those into the design, the ALMA Configuration Design will
be complete.
Agenda of PDR:
http://www.cv.nrao.edu/~awootten/mmaimcal/almaconfigpdragenda.html
Report of PDR:
http://www.alma.nrao.edu/administration/designreviews/configurationpdr.html
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If you have not done so, please send details of your plans to
'nmreserv at aoc.nrao.edu' or go to http://www.aoc.nrao.edu/cgi-bin/visitor.cgi
to make your lodging reservations. However, that information does not
come back to me for planning the agenda, so please cc: me as follows.
Could you please (1) confirm your participation as soon as possible, and
(2) give me the following information before January 15:
Date of arrival :
Date of Departure :
Need for a single or double-room ?
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Bryan Butler's list of relevant Memos, documents, etc:
- memos
memo 292
A Possible Layout for a Spiral Zoom Array Incorporating Terrain Constraints
John Conway; 03/00
http://alma.aoc.nrao.edu/memos/html-memos/abstracts/abs292.html
memo 296
Fitting of the Largest Configuration (10 km) into the Terrain at the
Chajnantor Site; Leonia Kogan; 03/00
http://alma.aoc.nrao.edu/memos/html-memos/abstracts/abs296.html
memo 297
A study of the electromagnetic properties of the ideal Reuleaux triangle
antenna array; Adrian Webster; (In Preparation)
memo 317
Comparison of the antenna pointing error effect on the image quality for
two configurations and two source types; L. Kogan; 08/00
http://alma.aoc.nrao.edu/memos/html-memos/abstracts/abs317.html
memo 320
Strawperson Donut/Doubling-Ring Configurations; M.S. Yun & L. Kogan; 08/00
http://alma.aoc.nrao.edu/memos/html-memos/abstracts/abs320.html
memo 338
The Best Sites for the Compact ALMA Configuration
Bryan Butler, Simon Radford, and Angel Otarola; 12/00
http://alma.aoc.nrao.edu/memos/html-memos/abstracts/abs338.html
memo 348
A Preliminary ALMA Zoom Array Design for the Chanjnantor Site
John Conway; 02/01
http://alma.aoc.nrao.edu/memos/html-memos/abstracts/abs348.html
memo 353
Investigation of Suppression of Sidelobes by Simple Displacement of
Clustered Groups of Regularly Spaced Antennas; Steven Heddle; 03/01
http://alma.aoc.nrao.edu/memos/html-memos/abstracts/abs353.html
memo 354
Choices of Antenna Size and Number for the Atacama Compact Array
W.J. Welch; 03/01
http://alma.aoc.nrao.edu/memos/html-memos/abstracts/abs354.html
memo 355
Design of the ALMA's Compact Configuration with the Road Design First
L. Kogan; 03/01
http://alma.aoc.nrao.edu/memos/html-memos/abstracts/abs355.html
memo 364
An Antenna Location Mask for Configuration Designs for ALMA
Bryan J. Butler; 04/01
http://alma.aoc.nrao.edu/memos/html-memos/abstracts/abs364.html
memo 367
ALMA Operational Model: The SSR Committee view
ALMA Science Software Requirements Committee; 05/01
http://alma.aoc.nrao.edu/memos/html-memos/abstracts/abs367.html
memo 368
An Imaging Study for ACA; M.S. Yun; 05/01
http://alma.aoc.nrao.edu/memos/html-memos/abstracts/abs368.html
memo 374
Wide Field Imagings with the Atacama Large Millimeter/Submillimeter Array
K.-I. Morita; 05/01
http://alma.aoc.nrao.edu/memos/html-memos/abstracts/abs374.html
memo 375
Coordinates of Roads, Pipelines, and Landmarks Near the ALMA Site
Seiichi Sakamoto; 05/01
http://alma.aoc.nrao.edu/memos/html-memos/abstracts/abs375.html
memo 386
ALMA+ACA Simulation Tool; J. Pety, F. Gueth and S. Guilloteau; 08/01
http://alma.aoc.nrao.edu/memos/html-memos/abstracts/abs386.html
memo 387
ALMA+ACA Simulation Results; J. Pety, F. Gueth and S. Guilloteau; 08/01
http://alma.aoc.nrao.edu/memos/html-memos/abstracts/abs387.html
memos 389 & 390
Radio Interferometer Array Point Spread Functions
I. Theory and Statistics
II. Evaluation and Optimization
David Woody; 08/01
http://alma.aoc.nrao.edu/memos/html-memos/abstracts/abs389.html
http://alma.aoc.nrao.edu/memos/html-memos/abstracts/abs390.html
memo 398
Impact of ACA on the Wide-Field Imaging Capabilities of ALMA
J. Pety, F. Gueth and S. Guilloteau; 11/01
http://alma.aoc.nrao.edu/memos/html-memos/abstracts/abs398.html
memo 405
Unaddressed Issues for ALMA Configurations; M.A. Holdaway; 01/02
http://alma.aoc.nrao.edu/memos/html-memos/abstracts/abs405.html
- 'strawman' arrays
Leonia Kogan's compact configuration:
http://www.aoc.nrao.edu/~lkogan/comp.conf.1road.ps
http://www.aoc.nrao.edu/~lkogan/comp_conf.ps
John Conway's intermediate configurations:
http://www.oso.chalmers.se/~jconway/ALMA/SIMULATIONS/SIM13/
http://www.aoc.nrao.edu/~bbutler/work/alma/configurations/john-pad-posns.txt
Adrian Webster's configurations:
http://www.aoc.nrao.edu/~bbutler/work/alma/configurations/adrian-pad-posns.txt
Frederic Boone's configurations:
http://www.tuc.nrao.edu/~sradford/boone.ps.gz
http://www.aoc.nrao.edu/~bbutler/work/alma/configurations/frederic-pad-posns.txt
- others:
Conway's description of our site visit in 2001dec:
http://www.oso.chalmers.se/~jconway/ALMA/SIMULATIONS/SIM14/
discussions on sampling theory:
http://www.oso.chalmers.se/~jconway/ALMA/SIMULATIONS/SIM10/iregsamp.ps
http://www.oso.chalmers.se/~jconway/ALMA/SIMULATIONS/SIM11
http://gridlock.york.ac.uk/papers/sst3.ps
(and references therein)
Interferometric array design: Optimizing the locations of the antenna pads
F. Boone; A&A; v377; p368-376; 2001
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-bib_query?bibcode=2001A%26A...377..368B&db_key=AST&high=3bdec5e84802681
Exploring the performance of large-N radio astronomical arrays
C.J. Lonsdale, S.S. Doeleman, R.J. Cappallo, J.N. Hewitt, A.R. Whitney
Proc. SPIE v4015; p126-134; 2000
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-bib_query?bibcode=2000SPIE.4015..126L&db_key=AST&high=3bdec5e84802705
Concept design for a low-frequency array
J.D. Bregman; Proc. SPIE v4015; p19-32; 2000
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-bib_query?bibcode=2000SPIE.4015...19B&db_key=AST&high=3bdec5e84802746
Hybrid Composite Zoom Designs for ALMA Antenna Station Layout
A. Webster; in 'Science with the Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA)'; 1999
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-bib_query?bibcode=1999alma.confE..68W&db_key=AST&high=3bdec5e84803020
Interferometric Array Design
M.A. Holdaway, T.T. Helfer; SIRA II, p. 537-562; 1999
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-bib_query?bibcode=1999sira.conf..537H&db_key=AST&high=3bdec5e84803057
Cybernetic Design for Cross-Correlation Interferometers
E. Keto; BAAS, v25, p1364, 1993
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-bib_query?bibcode=1993AAS...183.4702K&db_key=AST&high=3bdec5e84803074
ATA stuff:
50-antenna sample configurations for the Allen Telescope Array
D. Bock; ATA Memo #15; 2000
http://astron.berkeley.edu/~dbock/papers/ata_memo_15.pdf
350-antenna sample configurations for the Allen Telescope Array
D. Bock; ATA Memo #21; 2001
http://astron.berkeley.edu/~dbock/papers/ata_memo_21.pdf
Configuration Choices for the Allen Telescope Array
D.C.-J. Bock, M.C.H. Wright, W.J. Welch and J. Tasman, poster
presented at the workshop "Technology Pathways to the Square
Kilometre Array", Jodrell Bank Observatory, UK, August 2000.
http://astron.berkeley.edu/~dbock/papers/jb2000.pdf
CARMA stuff:
get it from: http://www.astro.umd.edu/~lgm/CONFS/
others, from my list when i did the metrics write-up:
Ryle & Hewish, The Syntheis of Large Radio Telescopes, MNRAS, 1960
Harris, On the Use of Windows for Harmonic Analysis with the Discrete
Fourier Transform, Proc. IEEE, 66, 51-83, 1978
Mutel & Gaume, A Design Study for a Dedicated VLBI Array,
VLBA Memo 84, 1982
Walker, Fast Quality Measure, VLBA Memo 144, 1982
Cornwell, Quality Indicators for the MM Array, MMA Memo 18, 1984
Hjellming, The 90 meter Configuration of the Proposed NRAO mm Array,
MMA Memo 30, 1985
Cornwell, Crystalline Antenna Arrays, MMA Memo 38, 1986
Holdaway, Imaging Characteristics of a Homogeneous Millimeter Array,
MMA Memo 61, 1990
Holdaway, Evaluating the MMA Compact Configuration Designs,
MMA Memo 81, 1992
Cornwell, Holdaway, & Uson, Radio-interferometric imaging of very large
objects: implications for array design, A&A, 271, 697-713, 1993
Holdaway, Foster, & Morita, Fitting a 12km Configuration on the
Chajnantor Site, MMA Memo 153, 1996
Holdaway, What Fourier Plane Coverage is Right for the MMA?,
MMA Memo 156, 1996
Keto, The Shapes of Cross-Correlation Interferometers, ApJ, 475,
843-852, 1997
Holdaway, Effects of Pointing Errors on Mosaic Images with 8m, 12m, and
15m Dishes, MMA Memo 178, 1997
Helfer & Holdaway, Design Concepts for Strawperson Antenna
Configurations for the MMA, MMA Memo 198, 1998
Holdaway, Hour Angle Ranges for Configuration Optimization,
MMA Memo 201, 1998
Wright, Image Fidelity, BIMA memo 73, 1999
there are a couple of more obscure references to Morita's work that I
couldn't get proper references for or full copies of but which probably
have relevant information:
Morita, Array Configuration of Large Radio Interferometers for
Astronomical Observations, National Astronomical Observatory,
NRO-TR-56, 1997
Morita, Ishiguro, & Holdaway, Array Configuration of the Large
Millimeter and Submillimeter Array (LMSA), URSI-GA, 1996
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