[mmaimcal]Strange numbers...

Al Wootten awootten at NRAO.EDU
Thu Oct 3 08:36:04 EDT 2002


Kamaya and Silk MNRAS 335, p. 162 'Observing baryonic dark matter with ALMA'
refer to the ALMA website, but state 'ALMA is a ground-based radio 
interferometric facility, and will consist of 96 12-m antennas.  A
detailed recent review is found in Takeuchi et al. (2001)...'

Takeuchi et al. (2001)PASP 113, 586 p. 587: 'ALMA will consist of 96
12-m antennas ...'

Before that 'LMSA...will consist of 32 12m antennas...'

So clearly, the authors of the PASP article made a bizarre summation to
create a number which seems to be living on in the literature.  There 
certainly seems to be confusion at Oxford as to what ALMA is.

But this led me to discover that the ALMA WWW sensitivity numbers are somewhat 
outdated so I'll update them...

Al



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