ScienceSupportGroup

Science Operations Group (SOG) at IRAM/Granada

Observer support

• Project Management

• Proposal Management System

• InformationObservations - Collection of information relevant for observations

• Information on other telescopes: CCAT Memos

• Atmospheric models:

  • Interactive CSO plotter

  • ATM publications

  • see astro atmosphere

Calibration documentation and catalogues

• PointingFluxes Which pointing sources to use ? A guideline for the observer.

• LineCalibration Recommendations on HOWTO check the line calibration

• CalibrationPapers on the IRAM 30m telescope

Technical projects

• Polarimetry

• Continuum arrays at the IRAM-30m telescope:

  • NIKA Bolometer Camera

  • GISMO Bolometer Camera

• Arrays at other telescopes: SCUBA-2/JCMT, LABOCA/APEX 870um, SABOCA 350um, Bolocam/CSO, AzTEC at JCMT, ASTE, LMT, SHARC-2/CSO, MUSTANG/GBT 3mm

SOG internal information

• AstronomerOfDutyChecklist

• Selection of UpcomingConferences

• BooksOnAstronomy

Public Outreach Activities 2013

• Seminars at IRAM/Granada and at IAA

• IRAM SummerSchools in the Sierra Nevada/Spain

• Visits of the Sierra Nevada observatories (organized with the IAA), webpage. Support: Sandra Trevino, Manuel Gonzalez, Israel Hermelo. The IAA coordinator is Emilio Garcia <garcia@iaa.es>. The proposed dates for summer 2013 are:

• 		11:30	~15:15 and ~16:15
  1	13.07.
  2	27.07.	Manuel	Manuel
  3	11.08.
  4	24.08.	Manuel	Manuel

Astrophysics projects

• ColdGass: CO Legacy Project for Cold GASS. An IRAM large program

• AMIGA: Analysis of the interstellar Medium of Isolated GAlaxies

• Herschel projects:

  • HERMES Herschel M33 extended survey

  • WADI Warm and dense Interstellar Medium

Useful links

• Poster printout: ALCOBA IMPRESORES S.L.L., Acera de Canasteros, 16, Tel: 958 273 970 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting              958 273 970      end_of_the_skype_highlighting, aimpresores@yahoo.es (30Euro for A0 Poster, Apr-2010)

• Carmen de la Victoria

• EMIR Project

• IRAM Wikis: IRAMES, gra-lx1, mrt-lx1

• ftp pages: ftp

• IRAM Databases: Bolo Pool, HERA Pool, Scheduler

• MAMBO2 pages: MAMBO2 pool observing, see MAMBO2 related problems here

• Telescope Efficiencies: JCMT, APEX, CSO

• Atmosphere: Atmospheric Models: Moliere, Cumulative distribution of zenith opacities at 225GHz: CSO

• MASSA QuickHowTo.txt

• Local Time and LST

• Sky Chart, Today's Moon, Today's Planets

• JPL´s HORIZONS system (planet ephemerides)

• http://nedwww.ipac.caltech.edu/forms/calculator.html

• http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/Tools/convcoord/convcoord.pl, http://lambda.gsfc.nasa.gov/toolbox/tb_coordconv.cfm

• karma/kvis