ALMA MEMO #471

Site Properties and Stringency

Neal Evans (U. Texas), John Richer (MRAO Cambridge), Seiichi Sakamoto (NRO, Japan),
Christine Wilson (McMaster, Canada), Diego Mardones (Universidad de Chile),
Simon Radford (NRAO, Tucson), Selby Cull (NRAO, Tucson), Robert Lucas (IRAM)

2003-07-03

In summer 2002, the ALMA Coordinating Committee (ACC) charged the ALMA Science Advisory Committee (ASAC) to address the following issue:

"The ASAC is asked to evaluate all available site (225 GHz opacity, 12 GHz phase stability, 350 micron and >1 THz) data for Chajnantor, and to discuss any significant trends and issues which may impact the scientific mission, design or mission emphasis of the baseline instrument"

This memo contains the ASAC working group's response to this charge. It was originally included in an appendix to the ASAC report of October 2002, and is here released as a memo to give it a wider audience.

View a pdf version of ALMA Memo #471.