Projects submitted by EU:
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- ACA Band 6 Snapshots to determine the nature of Planck Compact Sources at 353 microns
- Origins of the outflow of BP Psc
- The ACA SMC 3 mm Survey Cross-Section (S3MCS)
- Complete CO(1-0) map of the ’Frontier Fields’ Cluster A2744 (Pandora’s Cluster)
- Phase 2 submission start date still under discussion.
- Cycle 6 PI notification letters on SCIREQ-1501.
- Mostly minor changes from Cycle 5.
- Added sentence to top-quartile proposals that are not scheduled to indicate "The high oversubscription in Cycle 6 unfortunately prevented some highly ranked proposals from being added to the queue." Also added sentence that successul programs may need to pass a technical assessment in Phase 2.
- Technical assessment in two stages: before APRC only vlbi and LPs. After APRC results, only on accepted proposals in specific categories. See attachment. "The output of Stage 2 TA is a set of comments to the Contact Scientist, written in the Project Tracker, to help make the project feasible or to help improve the technical set-up. The comments will also point out if the PI has given any specifications for the observation that ALMA will not necessarily be able to provide, e.g. high dynamic range, which the CS should inform the PI about." and "Since this is performed on accepted proposals, we will always work with the PI to try to make their project feasible."
- SWST team changed. Non-rotating member are now Rachel Rosen and Andy. Other members are selected depending on the topics that need to be discussed.
- Restarting post-ObsMode telecons. Proposed cadence up to the 01 Sept Go/No Go deadline: 20 June - 12:30 UT, 18 July - 12: 30 UT, 01 Aug - 12:30 UT, 22 Aug - 12:30 UT, 31 Aug - 12:30 UT
- Resubmissions document: will be ready soon
- Software deployment schedule: main topic of tomorrow's iSOpT-ICT leads telecon
- All SSS should have a deputy
- Offline obsmode/workflow meeting: still under discussion
- The issue with the high RMS regarding all Total Power observations with more than pointing has now been solved (https://jira.alma.cl/browse/PRTSPR-32686
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- Everyone OK with Cycle 7.5 schedule.
- Need to replace two members on ESAC. Suggestions?
- Carryover long baseline programs. Do we have any cases that "didn't get observed in Cycle 5 because (most likely) it was a daytime object and we can't observe B7 in the daytime - especially in long baselines so the carryover had almost 0% chance of being observed... " [AR]
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- Mid-year reviews starting soon
- Budget preparations starting
- UC report received:
- UC42.R01: to consider starting the 1-year proprietary period of a normal programme run at the time that that run is declared completed or terminated (rather than on an OB- per-OB basis, as it is the current practice). The rationale behind this recommendation is to allow successful PIs to be able to analyse and publish their complete datasets without the risk of partial results being published in advance by the community. Explore if this same recommendation can be applied to ALMA, although the UC understands that ESO cannot take a unilateral decision in this respect.
Note: this recommendation does not apply to large programmes and ESO public surveys.
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- UC42.R02: to provide ALMA PIs with calibrated measurement sets (MS) and keep them for at least a month. This will speed up the process of re-obtaining final science images in the cases that this is necessary.
- UC42.R05: remote users
- to ensure accessibility to all ESO technical workshops / schools by providing remote access by default;
- to investigate ways to engage remote sites also with the hands-on aspects of workshops, supported via established technologies;
- to continue organizing ALMA tutorials and schools on data analysis (which include, e.g., combining data from different instruments).
- UC42.R08: to continue improving the ALMA completion rate for A-ranked and DDT programmes.
- UC42.R11: to continue investigating the sources of bias in the OPC / ARP grades, and consider applying possible remedies, such as those already tried by other observatories (e.g. placing PI/co-I list at the end of proposals, or hiding list of PI/co-Is overall).
- UC42.R15: to consider communicating, linking and highlighting all future important updates through the ESO Science Newsletter. According to the users, this is their preferred and most read ESO means of communication. Also include an yearly summary of the main UC recommendations in the Newsletter.
- Guidelines for science assessors attached
- New draft software release process document attached. Comments, please let me know by end of next week
- iSOpT issues:
- Requirements for Cycle 7 ACA supplemental call (SCIREQ-1454)
- How to increase throughput of B9/B10 projects? More C-rated projects or SV?
- Issues with scheduling time critical observations. How do we mitigate the issues that we are having with scheduling
- HF observations during the day - should we remove these restrictions? Seems like the weather should dictate the observing… are the antenna issues just a red herring?
- There is a major issue with several TP observations, with the Time-on-Source being underestimated.
- Need feedback from Large Programme PIs (ASAC)
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