1. National Radio Astronomy Observatory May 17-19, 2006 – NRAO User Committee Meeting North American ALMA Operations and the North American ALMA Science Center Chris Carilli NAASC Head

2. May 2006 – NRAO Users Committee Meeting NRAO, Socorro, New Mexico ALMA Operations on 1 page (ProjPlan) “The Joint ALMA Observatory (JAO) is primarily a service organization for conducting the activities in Chile that are required to acquire, certify, and archive the scientific data for the User communities. The interface to ALMA for each of these communities is an ALMA regional center (ARC).” Array Operations Site (AOS), Chajnantor: ALMA array reconfiguration, site security, correlator – modular design to mitigate high-site maintenance Operations Support Facility (OSF), San Pedro: Operate array, select schedule blocks, ensure adequate calibration, quick-look data monitoring, Quality Assurance 0 (AoD), basic module repair, standard antenna maintenance, safety, administration Central Office (Santiago): Pipeline, QA1, Archive, Business, Science office ALMA regional Centers (ARCs), C’ville, ESO, Tokyo: Proposal functions, sched block preparation, basic user support and feedback, archive copy and research, QA2, module maintenance & repair, software M&R, OSF staffing (AoD), H/W + S/W development, advance science support and development

3. May 2006 – NRAO Users Committee Meeting NRAO, Socorro, New Mexico NAASC = ARC Ops Science Division Proposal Functions User Science Support Archive Operations NA ARC Data Management Division Software M & R Software Development Hardware M & R Hardware Development Technical Division = MR&D contracts = beyond ARC Chilean Affairs Postdocs& students User Grants Program Professional Development Advanced User Support Science Development Division ALMA EPO NAASC Head Office { NA ARC { North American ALMA Science Center Organizational Chart

4. May 2006 – NRAO Users Committee Meeting NRAO, Socorro, New Mexico North American ARC: Science Div. Proposal and Scheduling Functions: Review and evaluate the Proposal Submission Tool (PST), and assist proposers Issue call for proposals Organize review and ranking of NA proposals Provide assistance to users in generating observe files Verify and correct schedule blocks User Science Support: Participate in Commissioning and Science Verification Review and evaluate the pipeline and off-line data reduction software, cookbooks, and web pages Disseminate full uv data sets OSF staffing: “Astronomer-on-Duty” Quality assurance and user feedback to OSF Post-observation user support via helpdesk Archive support: Operate NA ALMA Archive (>100 Tbytes per year; cf HST 20 Tbytes total) Support archive research Provide interface to the VO

5. May 2006 – NRAO Users Committee Meeting NRAO, Socorro, New Mexico Hardware and Software Maintenance and Repair Maintain and repair hardware and software developed by NA during construction NA Software deliverables: Scheduling, real-time system, pipeline, correlator, offline. NA Hardware deliverables: Band 3, Band 6, Back End assembly, LO, IF & DTS system, correlator, antenna power supply. ARC Technical and Software Divisions Hardware and Software Development Develop algorithms and software for new observing modes or new computing H/W Develop new pipeline heuristics New ALMA observing bands SIS fabrication mixer development Photonic LO Advanced WVRs … Science/community driven: Organize regular workshops to set science priorities

6. May 2006 – NRAO Users Committee Meeting NRAO, Socorro, New Mexico Science Development Division ALMA will attract a broad spectrum of users, far beyond the historical NRAO mm/radio userbase. For U.S. astronomers to fully realize the transformational nature of ALMA requires a broader functionality for the ALMA Science Center. Advanced User Support Expert post-observation user support Support for special, large, and legacy projects Reprocessing complex datasets New algorithms for calibration/imaging Advanced simulation development Develop advanced observation planning tools Professional Development (student programs, schools and workshops) ALMA Fellows and Postdoc Program ALMA EPO User Grants program advocate (could be run by NSF)? Community involvement in advanced ALMA ‘ops’? While the Science Operations (ARC) and Science Development Divisions are functionally separate, the scientific staff of the NAASC will be assigned both Operations and Development functions, ensuring that all NAASC astronomers have the proper expertise with end-to-end ALMA operations.

7. May 2006 – NRAO Users Committee Meeting NRAO, Socorro, New Mexico The North American ALMA Science Center (NAASC): summary Three major components: The North American ARC Operations Basic user support Mirror of ALMA Archive Bilaterally agreed upon services ALMA Technical Support Maintenance & Repair of NA delivered hardware/software Development of additional observing capabilities/techniques Science Development Division Full user support Fellows, postdocs,student programs, workshops, schools EPO User Grants program

8. May 2006 – NRAO Users Committee Meeting NRAO, Socorro, New Mexico User Grants Program Advocate ( need not be managed by NRAO) $10M user data analysis grants program (US$2013) Grants tied to successful observing proposals Would provide ~$50k to ~200 project of average size ~12hrs Strongly endorsed by last Decadal Report for Astronomy & Astrophysics for all new NSF funded facilities Positive response from ANASAC, ALMA Town Meetings For comparison, other user grants programs: HST: $28M/yr Spitzer: $22M/yr Chandra: $12M/yr Herschel: $9M/yr planned

9. May 2006 – NRAO Users Committee Meeting NRAO, Socorro, New Mexico NAASC Staff Requirements in 2013 Science Division (11; 6.5 FTE) – Division head, 6 for proposal support, from submission to verification of observing blocks, plus 4 for data support (retrieval from archive and data reduction); this team has other duties, including duty at Array in Chile; estimate based on experience at VLA/VLBA plus Spitzer system; plus division head; Data Management (24 FTE) – 10 S/W Engineers for software maintenance, plus 7 S/W developers, plus 5 for maintaining archive, plus division head and deputy; estimate based on widespread experience that operations team = construction team in software; Technical Work in NTC (25; 23 FTE) – 12 for maintenance of hardware, plus 11 for development of new instrumentation and two co- ops; estimate obtained from NTC based on years of experience in hardware maintenance and development, including ALMA construction; Science Development (29; 11.1 FTE) – 12 Postdocs, 2 students, 5 education/public outreach; 7 for advanced support of users; 2 to run postdoc/predoc/summer school programs; 1 user grant administrator; estimate based on increment required in NRAO outreach program and in NAASC user support for ALMA; (7) Chilean Affairs; (3) NAASC Head, ARC manager, & admin. aide.

10. May 2006 – NRAO Users Committee Meeting NRAO, Socorro, New Mexico NAASC Staffing Ramp-up Year 20062007200820092010201120122013 Number of FTEs 8 Antennas at AOS/ Call for Proposals: 2009q2 Early Science operations (16 element array): 2010q1 2nd Antenna At AOS: 2008q4 Science Development User Grants Program Chilean Affairs NA ARC Development support Maintenance&Repair support AUI/NRAO NSF? 12 postdocs Bi-lateral

11. May 2006 – NRAO Users Committee Meeting NRAO, Socorro, New Mexico Year 8 Antennas at AOS/ Call for Proposals: 2009q2 Early Science operations (16 element array): 2010q1 2nd Antenna At AOS: 2008q4 Bi-lateral 2.5M AUI/NRAO 0.7M Bi-lateral 15.5M USA 3.9M Bi-lateral 3.4M Bi-lateral 5.5M NSF 10M Total NA = 31.5M + 10M grants Canadian Contribution= 7% = 2.2M + Taiwan? Mexico? FY2005

12. May 2006 – NRAO Users Committee Meeting NRAO, Socorro, New Mexico Key NAASC Tasks For 1st Science (2010) Scrub ALMA operations plan with JAO/execs: Summer 2006 Rebaselined project, Japan, ‘down-streaming’ tasks (Hibbard) Proposal to NSF to fund ALMA operations: Fall 2006 Economy-of-scale within NRAO, Community involvement in Sci. Dev.? Pre-reviews by NRAO, AUI, ANASAC (Carilli) Develop calibrator & spectral line databases 2006 Participate in tests of major software systems (PST, pipeline, offline) 2006 Inform community of science capabilities, observing modes, available resources, via meetings, workshops, webpages; solicit feedback 2007 Improved user documentation 2007 Testing data reduction scripts/cookbooks 2007 Proposal preparation/user support (proposal call 2009) 2008 Participate in Commissioning 2008 Proposal review/scheduling 2009 Post-observation user support: help users with offline data reduction; re-reduce data; submit bugs starting 2010

13. May 2006 – NRAO Users Committee Meeting NRAO, Socorro, New Mexico NAASC Status: C. Carilli replaces P. Vanden Bout as NAASC head May 1 2006. J. Hibbard is Acting Head of NA ARC. C. Brogan is head of ARC Science Division (a division of 1!). An internal review of the “NA ALMA Operations and NAASC Staffing Plan” was held on April 11th. Panel members included representatives from GBT Ops, NM Ops, e2e, EVLA, Fiscal, HR, the Directors Office, and NRC. Overall the response was positive. Discussions were held concerning the role of Canada in NA ALMA operations. James Di Francesco is official NRC liasion to NAASC. NRC-HIA will comment on the NAASC Staffing plan and get back to us with concrete suggestions. Presentations on the NAASC were made to NSF on April 24 2006. A formal proposal is due to NSF by the end of October 2006. NSF priorities are (1) support for ALMA Chilean Operations; (2) support for bilaterially agreed-upon operations support (i.e., NA ARC); (3) additional NAASC services. “ALMA North American Science Advisory Committee” (ANASAC) meets with NAASC and NRAO Director via telecon once every other month. NAASC holds informational and planning meetings on first Wednesday of each month. Attended by NRC representative, NRAO ALMA construction personnel, and any interested NRAO staff. First NAASC Workshop “From z-Machines to ALMA: (sub)mm Spectroscopy of Galaxies” was held at NAASC Jan 13-14 2006. 75 participants. Wildly successful. Programs and talks posted at http://www.cv.nrao.edu/naasc/zmachines/. Next workshop under discussion with ANASAC. http://www.cv.nrao.edu/naasc/zmachines/. Town Meetings held at last two winter AAS meetings. Talks posted at http://www.cv.nrao.edu Special Session planned for Calgary AAS. Presence planned at IAU (Prauge, August) and ALMA Madrid meeting (November), plus AAS Jan 2007.http://www.cv.nrao.edu Work has begun on defining international EPO working group to facilitate collection and disemmination of “All Things ALMA”. Plans for ALMA Chilean EPO are being developed. NAASC webpage: http://www.cv.nrao.edu/naasc/. Work has been done on developing mm/submm calibrator & spectral line databaseshttp://www.cv.nrao.edu/naasc/ NAASC Personnel participate in tests of all major software systems (PST, pipeline, offline)

14. May 2006 – NRAO Users Committee Meeting NRAO, Socorro, New Mexico The ALMA North America Science Advisory Committee (ANASAC) Bold red = also member of ASAC http://www.cv.nrao.edu/naasc/admin.shtml Andrew Baker, U. Maryland John Bally, U. Colorado Andrew Blain, Caltech Crystal Brogan, NRAO Todd Clancy, SSI Xiaohui Fan, U. Arizona Terry Herter, Cornell Paul Ho, CfA Kelsey Johnson, UVa Doug Johnstone, NRC Canada Elizabeth Lada, U.Florida Lee Mundy, U. Maryland Jean Turner, UCLA Alycia Weinberger, DTM Jonathan Williams, U. Hawaii Christine Wilson, McMaster U. Mel Wright, U.C.-Berkeley

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16. May 2006 – NRAO Users Committee Meeting NRAO, Socorro, New Mexico Year 8 Antennas at AOS/ Call for Proposals: 2009q2 Early Science operations (16 element array): 2010q1 2nd Antenna At AOS: 2008q4 Bi-lateral 2.5M AUI/NRAO 0.7M Bi-lateral 15.5M x 0.8 USA 3.9M x 0.3 Bi-lateral 3.4M Bi-lateral 5.5M x 0.3 NSF 10M x 0 Stripped NA = 21.8M (vs 31.5) Canadian Contribution= 7% = 1.5M + Taiwan? Mexico? FY2005 Stripped NA ALMA operations

17. May 2006 – NRAO Users Committee Meeting NRAO, Socorro, New Mexico NA ARC (operations + support) Operations: (2) ARC Head & Admin. Asst.; (6) Astronomers/analyst – proposal functions; (5) Astronomers – AoD & user support; (5) DB Manager, developers, techs – archive functions; Total NA ARC Ops: 18 employees (13 FTE) Technical Support: (12) Engineer/tech – hardware repair; (10) Programmers – software maintenance; $5,000,000 – development Total Technical support: 44 employees (42 FTE) Total NA ARC ops + support: 62 employees (55 FTE) (7) Chilean Affairs

18. May 2006 – NRAO Users Committee Meeting NRAO, Socorro, New Mexico Additional NAASC Staffing Science Development Division: (9) Advanced User Support: workshops, schools, “hand-holding”, advanced algorithm development (5 astronomers, 4 astronomical programmers) (1) Data analysis grants program administrator ($10M/yr); (12) ALMA Postdocs & Fellows; (2) Pre-doctoral students; (5) EPO (International, Chilean, U.S.) Total Science Division: 29 employees (12.6 FTE) Total NAASC: 99 employees (75 FTE)

19. May 2006 – NRAO Users Committee Meeting NRAO, Socorro, New Mexico *Tokyo *Garching *Cvlle *Santiago *ALMA site ALMA Regional Centers To the user community, the Joint ALMA Observatory will be remote and accessible only through the ARCs.

20. May 2006 – NRAO Users Committee Meeting NRAO, Socorro, New Mexico NA ARC Chile Operations EU ARC J ARC NAOJ “Satellite” EU ARCs Joint ALMA Observatory ARC Models ARC Core Functions + MR&D support ARCs provide basic user interface, as well as basic archive, software, and hardware maintenance, repair and development NAASC

21. May 2006 – NRAO Users Committee Meeting NRAO, Socorro, New Mexico Chile Operations NAOJ “Satellite” EU ARCs NAASC Additional Science Services NAASC Science Development Joint ALMA Observatory EU ARC J ARC NAASC Science Development Division is needed to provide expert services (“handholding), advanced algorithm development, summer schools, workshops, student programs, postdoc program, EPO, grants, etc. The NAASC is essential for U.S observers to realize the full benefits of ALMA NA ARC

22. May 2006 – NRAO Users Committee Meeting NRAO, Socorro, New Mexico Joint ALMA Observatory NAASC NA ALMA Operations JAO Budget NA Share Science Developmt } } NSF Budget Canadian 7% NA ARC: $15.4M $7M development $1.6M S/W Maintenance $1.6M H/W Maintenance $4.3M ARC Operations $0.9M Chilean Affairs NA Share of Chilean ALMA Ops: $19.6M Total NA: $35.0M Cost to NSF=$32.5M Yearly Cost to NSF: $47.4M (<10% of capital cost) Science Development: $4.9M + $10M Grants Chile Operations, all MR&D & ARCs (US$2013) NA ARC