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
National Radio Astronomy ObservatoryMay 17-19, 2006 – NRAO User Committee Meeting
North American ALMA Operations and the North American ALMA
Science Center
Chris Carilli
NAASC Head
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
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NAASC
= ARC Ops
Science Division
Proposal Functions
User ScienceSupport
Archive Operations
NA ARC
Data Management
Division
Software M & R
Software Development
HardwareM & R
HardwareDevelopment
Technical Division
= MR&D contracts
= beyond ARC
Chilean Affairs
Postdocs& students
User Grants Program
Professional Development
Advanced User Support
Science Development
Division
ALMAEPO
NAASC Head Office
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North American ALMA Science Center Organizational Chart
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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
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• 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
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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NAASC Staffing Ramp-up
Year 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013
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8 Antennas at AOS/Call for Proposals: 2009q2
Early Science operations(16 element array): 2010q1
2nd AntennaAt AOS: 2008q4
Science Development
User Grants Program
Chilean Affairs
NA ARC
Development support
Maintenance&Repair support
AUI/NRAO
NSF?
12 postdocsBi-lateral
Bi-lateral
Bi-lateral
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Year
8 Antennas at AOS/Call for Proposals: 2009q2
Early Science operations(16 element array): 2010q1
2nd AntennaAt 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
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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
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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.
• 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.
• 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 databases
• NAASC Personnel participate in tests of all major software systems (PST, pipeline, offline)
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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. MarylandJohn Bally, U. ColoradoAndrew Blain, CaltechCrystal Brogan, NRAOTodd Clancy, SSI Xiaohui Fan, U. ArizonaTerry Herter, CornellPaul Ho, CfA
Kelsey Johnson, UVaDoug Johnstone, NRC CanadaElizabeth Lada, U.FloridaLee Mundy, U. MarylandJean Turner, UCLAAlycia Weinberger, DTMJonathan Williams, U. HawaiiChristine Wilson, McMaster U. Mel Wright, U.C.-Berkeley
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Year
8 Antennas at AOS/Call for Proposals: 2009q2
Early Science operations(16 element array): 2010q1
2nd AntennaAt 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?
FY2005Stripped NA ALMA operations
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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
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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)
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*Tokyo
*Garching
*Cvlle
*Santiago*ALMA site
ALMA Regional CentersTo the user community, the Joint ALMA Observatory will be remote and accessible only through the ARCs.
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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
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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
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Joint ALMA Observatory
NAASC
NA ALMA Operations
JAO Budget
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NSF BudgetCanadian
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: $35.0MCost 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