A team of twelve scientists covering the range of science areas from the solar system to cosmology are putting together an updated justification.
All parties interested in using ALMA are encouraged to get in touch with members of the science advisory committees to have an input to the process.
Telecon contact details - +1(203) 320-9891, in USA 877 874-1919. Passcode 185064#
Minutes of call on 4th September 2008.
Minutes of call on 18th September 2008.
Minutes of call on 2nd October 2008.
Minutes of call on 20th October 2008.
Minutes of call on 22nd January 2009.
Extract from the high-level science requirements document. It might be possible to enable some new requirements.
The 2001 ASAC report on science priorities for enhancements over the baseline project.
ASAC report on antenna number and rebaselining: Feb 2005. See 'memo from mark' linked from this ASAC agenda.
The Blandford Committee Report "The Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA): Implications of a Potential Descope (2005)".
ALMA Design Reference Science Plan (DRSP) version 2.
Link to the The ALMA operations plan. This is protected: please email me for password information.
A presentation listing some possible developments from Richard Hills.
A 2002 discussion of a 2nd generation correlator, supplied by Kotaro Kohno.
Figures from Testi/Maiolino showning atmospheric spectrum with fine-structure line brightness as a function of redshift superposed: in bands 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10.
Figure showing CO availability as a function of redshift with current bandwidth (solid boxes) versus full atmospheric bandwidth (shaded boxes).
Discussion of Band-5 receivers from recent ESAC report (attached).
Presentation about Sgr A* and VLBI from Shep Doeleman (attached). Additional notes from Farhad Zadah, forwarded by Richard Hills.
Presentation from Adrian Russell (pdf).
Two-page talking points slide from the post-meeting discussions.