ScienceSupportGroup

Science Operations Group (SOG) at IRAM/Granada

• Rebeca Aladro, PhD Student
• Christof Buchbender, PhD Student
• Manuel Gonzalez, Astronomer, Pool manager of heterodyne projects
• Carsten Kramer, Astronomer, Station Manager
• Breezy Ocana, PhD Student
• Gabriel Paubert, Astronomer
• Guillermo Quintana-Lacaci, Astronomer, Pool manager of bolometer projects
• Denise Riquelme, PhD Student
• Albrecht Sievers, Astronomer
• Helmut Wiesemeyer, Astronomer

• (phone numbers)

Observer support

• 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

• InformationObservations - Collection of information relevant for observations

SOG internal information

• AstronomerOfDutyChecklist

• Selection of UpcomingConferences

Public Outreach Activities

• Seminars at IRAM/Granada: IramTalks and at IAA

• IRAM SummerSchools in the Sierra Nevada/Spain

• International year of Astronomy 2009:

  • In 80 Telescopes around the World on 3.-4. April 2009: IRAM-30m information, Webcast from the 30m telescope

  • Proyecto de IAA/CSIC, IAA Proyecto

  • Universidad de Granada U4

• Visits of the Sierra Nevada observatories (organized with the IAA) or here. IRAM support: Breezy Ocana, Denise Riquelme, Rebeca Aladro, Guillermo Quintana-Lacaci, Carsten Kramer (IRAM coordinator). The IAA coordinator is Jorge Iglesias <jiglesia@iaa.es>. The dates for summer 2009 are (We will keep the 5.9., despite of the summer school.):

• 	Date	Charla	30m visit
  		11:30	~15:15 and ~16:15
  1	27.06.	Breezy	Denise/Breezy
  2	11.07.	Rebeca	Rebeca
  3	25.07.	Breezy	Breezy
  4	08.08.	Guillermo	Guillermo
  5	05.09.	Breezy	Breezy/Helmut?

Other activities

• 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

    • HEXGAL (pw protected) Physical and chemical conditions of the IRAM in Galactic Nuclei

    • HERCULES (pw protected) Characterizing (U)LIRGs with Herschel: a complete spectroscopic survey in the local universe

Useful links

• 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)