ALMA North America Technical Advisory Committee

ALMA North America Technical Advisory Committee (ANATAC)

Minutes:

  1. 2004-04-16
  2. 2004-07-07

Summaries & Reports

  1. First Report from ATAC, 2002-12-23
  2. Considerations on an ALMA array containing dissimilar antenna elements (2003-02-20)
  3. ANATAC April 2004 summary
  4. ANATAC July 2004 summary
  5. Bill Shillue's Powerpoint presentation 2004-04-23, Photonic LO round-trip status
  6. References on Phase Switching
    1. Shifted m-sequences as an alternative to Walsh functions for phase switching in radio interferometry by Eric Keto
    2. Three-Phase Switching with m-Sequences for Sideband Separation in Radio Interferometry by Eric Keto
    3. On the Use of Shifted m-sequences for Phase Switching or Why not Complex Walsh Functions? by W.L. Urry
    4. Email from Barry
  7. Correspondence and references on Cloudsat, the 94 GHz Cloud Radar
    1. Original email correspondence on the topic
    2. Notes from Dick Thompson
    3. Further notes from Dick, concerning the received power from CloudSat
    4. Notes from Barry Clark
    5. Notes on the Proposed 94.5 GHz Space based Cloud Profiling Radar and its impact on mm-wave radio astronomy by John Ponsonby, Nov.1996.
    6. The Cloudsat Mission and the A-Train from the American Meterological Society, Dec 2002
    7. Technical paper from ANATAC, now ALMA Memo No. 504, The CloudSat Radar and Implications for ALMA (2004-08-23)
      This paper contains references to other material, including a technical report on CloudSat from JPL.
    8. Interference and Sidelobe Levels of Millimeter Wavelength Radiotelescopes by Dave Morris, IRAM, France, 23 February 1998. ITU-R document 7D/16-E and 7B/8, February 1998.