List of Configuration Related Memos and Publications

At the request of several working group members, I have compiled a list of relevant memos and publications. There are many tens of memos in the MMA Memo Series alone, so I am highlighting only the most relevant ones. Can someone alert me to any relevant LSA or LMSA memos if there are any?

(Unfortunately some of the old memos are not available online. If you like to see a hardcopy, send me an e-mail with a FAX number or a surface mail address.)

General Issues (for Style and Operations)

• Evaluation of Some Initial Possibilities for the Large Configurations of the Proposed mm Array (Hjellming 1984, MMA Memo 21)
• Crystalline Antenna Arrays (Cornwell 1986, MMA Memo 38)
• The Design of Aperture Synthesis Arrays (Hjelling 1989, in Synthesis Imaging in Radio Astronomy, p.477)
• Evaluating the MMA Compact Configuration Designs (Holdaway 1992, MMA Memo 81)
• Radio-interferometric Imaging of Very Large Objects: Implications for Array Design (Cornwell, Holdaway, & Uson 1993, A&A, 271, 697)
• How Quickly Can the MMA Reconfigure? (Holdaway & Owen 1996, MMA Memo 147)
• Evaluating the Minimum Baseline Constraints for the MMA D Array (Holdaway & Foster 1996, MMA Memo 155)
• What Fourier Plane Coverage is Right for the MMA? (Holdaway 1996, MMA Memo 156)
• The Shapes of Cross-Correlation Interferometers (Keto 1997, ApJ, 475, 843)
• Design Concepts for Strawperson Antenna Configurations for the MMA (Helfer & Holdaway 1998, MMA Memo 198)
• Cost-Benefit Analysis for the Number of MMA Configurations (Holdaway 1998, MMA Memo 199)
• Hour Angle Ranges for Configuration Optimization (Holdaway 1998, MMA Memo 201)
• Optimization of an Array Configuration with a Donut Constraint (Kogan 1998, MMA Memo 212)
• Hybrid Arrays: the Design of Reconfigurable Aperture-Synthesis Interferometer (Webster 1998, MMA Memo 214)
• Self-Similar Spiral Geometries for the LSA/MMA (Conway 1998, MMA Memo 216)
• A, B, C, and D Configurations in the Shape of Concentric Circles (Kogan 1998, MMA Memo 217)
• A, B, C, and D Configurations in the Shape of Concentric Circles with Fixed Pads at the Common Circumferences (Kogan 1998, MMA Memo 226)
• The Design of MMA Configurations of Intermediate Extent (Webster 1998, MMA Memo 233)
• Hybrid Composite Arrays: I. The Inner and Outer Hybrids (Webster 1999, MMA Memo 239)
• The Imaging Characteristics of an Array with Minimum Side Lobes (Kogan 1999, MMA Memo 247)
• A Comparison of Zoom Arrays with Circular and Spiral Symmetry (Conway 1999, MMA Memo 260)
• Cost-Benefit Analysis of ALMA Configurations (Yun & Kogan 1999, MMA Memo 265)
• ALMA Configurations with Complete UV Coverage (Woody 1999, MMA Memo 270)
• Reconfiguring the ALMA Array (Guilloteau 1999, MMA Memo 274)
• Sensitivity Loss vs. Duration of Reconfiguration and ALMA Array Design (Yun 1999, MMA Memo 276)
• Antenna Transport Times and Reconfiguration Schedule (Radford 1999, MMA Memo 280)
• Dynamic Scheduling (Wright 1999, MMA Memo 282)
• Observing Efficiency of a Strawperson Zoom Array (Conway 2000, MMA Memo 283)
• Imaging Simulations with a Spiral Zoom Array; Comparisons with Ring Arrays (Conway 2000, MMA Memo in preparation)
  

Topographic Constraints and Digital Mask

The site maps and digital elevation models are found at the ALMA site page. Some preliminary digital masks produced by B. Butler can be found in his ALMA page.

• High Site Millimeter Array Configurations (Hjellming 1988, MMA Memo 47)
• Road Feasibility Study for MMA Sites in the Magdalena Mountains (Napier 1992, MMA Memo 77)
• Further Simulations of (possible) MMA Configurations (Ge 1992, MMA Memo 80)
• Fitting a 12km Configuration on the Chajnantor Site (Holdaway, Foster, & Morita 1996, MMA Memo 153)
• Digital Elevation Models for the Chajnantor Site (Holdaway et al. 1996, MMA Memo 160)
• Optimization of an Array Configuration with a Topography Constraint (Kogan 1998, MMA Memo 202)
  

Quality Metrics

• High Dynamic Range Imaging (Perley 1989, in Synthesis Imaging in Radio Astronomy, p.287)
• Radio-interferometric Imaging of Very Large Objects: Implications for Array Design (Cornwell, Holdaway, & Uson 1993, A&A, 271, 697)
• Evaluating the MMA Compact Configuration Designs (Holdaway 1992, MMA Memo 81)
• What Fourier Plane Coverage is Right for the MMA? (Holdaway 1996, MMA Memo 156)
• Optimization of an Array Configuration Minimizing Side Lobes (Kogan 1997, MMA Memo 171)
• Design Concepts for Strawperson Antenna Configurations for the MMA (Helfer & Holdaway 1998, MMA Memo 198)
• Level of Negative Side Lobes in an Array Beam (Kogan 1998, MMA Memo 218)
• ALMA Configurations with Complete UV Coverage (Woody 1999, MMA Memo 270)
• Image Fidelity: Implications for ALMA (Wright 1999, MMA Memo 272)
  

N-S Elongation

• Further Simulations of (possible) MMA Configurations (Ge 1992, MMA Memo 80)
• Design Concepts for Strawperson Antenna Configurations for the MMA (Helfer & Holdaway 1998, MMA Memo 198)
  

Full Synthesis vs. Snapshots

• Fitting a 12km Configuration on the Chajnantor Site (Holdaway, Foster, & Morita 1996, MMA Memo 153)
• Imaging Simulations with a Spiral Zoom Array; Comparisons with Ring Arrays (Conway 2000, MMA Memo in preparation)
  

Last modified January 24, 2000