CARA Telecon Minutes

Date: Time: 9/24/01 1:00 PM

Attendance:

BU:
Cornell:  G. Stacey
CMU:  J. Peterson
Northwestern: G. Novak
R.I.T:
S.A.O.: T. Stark, W. Walsh, S. Kim
South Pole: C. Martin, C. Kaminski
Chicago:  J. Carlstrom, A. Harper, S. Meyer, N. Odalen, R. Landsberg,
R. Loewenstein J. Bausch
UCB:  W. Holzapfel
UCSB:

Approval of previous minutes:
None

  Agenda Items


News from the Pole:
C. Martin reported that the weather has not been good at the Pole,
tau 1.6-2,windy, and cloudy.  Sun has now appeared.  AST/RO is still
alive, instrument filled last night and there is still some helium in
the 250 liter dewar.  AST/RO is doing observations and will continue
as long as the helium lasts.

DASI has changed one of the receivers and is back and running.  B.
Reddall and E. Sandberg are working together.

All is normal at MAPO.

DASI - J. Carlstrom added that one of the dewars on the hemp
amplifier had wiring problems, which are now solved, and the system
is back working.  DASI is plugging away and has taken a lot of data
on polarization.

AST/RO - got all their data on the galactic center they mapped 1
square degree in 3 different data cubes.  This is a breakthrough for
AST/RO that they were able to accomplish a large-scale high frequency
map of the galactic center.

Reviews have all been good so far on the AST/RO proposal submitted in June'01.

Acbar - M. Newcomb is still working on running tests and doing some
programming.

The team stateside is working on the pointing model RMS around 30-40".
They are also checking for systematic errors this week.  They should
have enough manpower to analyze the data.

Tipper - still running.  The tipper data is on the web in real time.

SPARO - G. Novak has still not heard about their funding.  The SPARO
paper was submitted 2 weeks ago.

REU - R. Landsberg requested that G. Stacy, W. Holzapfel and J.
Peterson report on their REU students.

Annual Report:

J. Carlstrom has received write-ups from the group. They were good
but not exactly what is appropriate for passing through the NSF.  J.
Carlstrom requested that the group work on punching up their
contributions.

S. Meyer requested that the group look at their publications, which
are on the list that he will be sending around.

R. Landsberg requested that the group submit information on their
public lectures.

N. Odalen requested that the groups complete and submit the database
and financial information for submission to the NSF on 10/1/01.

J. Carlstrom asked the group what should be going into the Directors Narrative.

It was suggested that:

- should end in the positive with a sequence into the future of Pole.
- NSF seems to be listening
- stress future

R. Loewenstein was contacted by Raytheon regarding the bandwidth need
for CARA in the coming season.  Response is needed from each group.