IRAM Institutes applying for observing time on IRAM

IRAM

Institutes applying for observing time on IRAM interferometer

IRAM and FP 6 • Transnational access • 15% of telescope time attributed • to non-IRAM countries EU astronomers IRAM provides help in 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. • • Training (school IMISS, …) Peer review of proposals Observing Data reduction (pipeline, off-line soft) proposal preparation (IMISS, assistance to proposers) Operating cost of PV+Pd. B 6 M€/yr Help can be evaluated to 1 M €/yr • • • IRAM proposes to guarantee a minimum of 10% of telescope time and requests 0. 6 M€/yr on this line. This money could help us financing new projects: Wide-band high-freq. RX for Pd. B New-generation wide-band correlator for Pd. B Extension of the EW baseline to 800 m 7 th antenna on Pd. B Array receivers for PV (bolometer camera, heterodyne arrays)

Joint Research Activities • • • SIS mixer development (wide-band) SIS junction fabrication New generation (wide-band) correlator New reflector panels Correction of phase fluctuations (interfero and single-dish) • Software for reduction of (e. g. OTF) data (interferometer and single-dish)

IRAM and ALMA • Hardware • Software • Receiver developments SIS mixers/junctions Optics • Software developments • Receiver Integration Center • Regional Support Center • Pipeline&off-line data reduction • Telescope calibration • Telescope control

Proposition for a Regional Support Center with headquarters in Grenoble