Q2 Report ALBiUS. ESO 

Robert Laing (RAL)

Paola Andreani (PA)

Hans Rykaczewski (HR)

ARC scientist (ArcSci) 

List of working documents – 
 
 

List of activities –  

1. Recruitment of ARC scientist carried out. Candidate selected and recommendation currently with ESO administration.

2. Meetings - RAL attended SKA Calibration and Imaging Meeeting, Socorro; discussions on calibration models for AIPS and CASA.

PA and RAL attended the ALBiUS kick-off meeting in Dwingeloo. 

Issues

Delay in recruitment. Anticipate necessary staff in post Aug/Sept 2009.  Requires some delay in deliverables; no change of scope. 

Red flags

none 
 

Forward plan 

3 months: Get ARC scientist in post and familiar with the project. 

6 months: Essential meetings with JIVE to plan effort on interoperability and with ASTRON, JBCA, Cambridge, NRAO to establish coherent programme over Mosaic/direction-dependent calibration/distributed imaging/polarization tasks. Report on current and proposed mosaic imaging software. 
 

Deliverables/milestones 

Report on mosaic software (month 12) 

Number of persons working on JRA 

4 (PA, RAL, HR, ArcSci)

person-hours:

                         Q1  70

                         Q2: 140

                         Q3:  320 (estimated)

                         Q4:  560 (estimated) 

(Q3/4 depend on ARCSci start date)