This book describes the ALMA construction plan for the Chajnantor site.
The Test Interferometer Project Book is also available, describing the plans and tests to be carried out at the VLA test site in New Mexico.
An index of archived versions of this ALMA Project Book and the earlier MMA-only versions is available here.
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| Letter from the Editor (Baars) | 2002-02-20 | |
| 1 | Introduction (Brown & Kurz) | 2000-09-27 |
| 2 | Requirements & Specifications (Brown, Baars, Emerson, D'Addario) | 2001-02-05 |
| The ALMA System Block Diagrams (D'Addario et al.) | 2001-02-02 | |
| 3 | Calibration (Holdaway, Wootten, Payne, Vaccari et al.) | 2001-02-06 |
| 4 | Antennas (Kingsley & Baars) | 2002-01-12 |
| 5 | Front Ends (Wild, Payne et al.) | 2002-01-05 |
| 6 | Cryogenics (Orlowska, Harman & Ellison) | 2001-01-29 |
| 7 | Local Oscillators (D'Addario) | 2002-01-12 |
| 8 | ALMA Systems Engineering (Gie Han Tan) | 2002-01-10 |
| 9 | IF Processing and Signal Transmission (Sramek, Baudry, Brundage & Jackson) | 2002-02-08 |
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| 10 | Correlator (Webber, Escoffier, Broadwell, Greenberg & Baudry) | 2002-01-07 |
| 11 | Holography (Perfetto & Emerson) | 2000-09-28 |
| 12 | Computing (Glendenning, Raffi and others) | 2002-01-04 |
| 13 | Data Analysis: Imaging Requirements (Holdaway & Wootten) | 2000-04-18 |
| 14 | Site Characterization (Radford) | 2001-07-25 |
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Array Configuration
(Min Yun) NB: Complete revision on basis of Feb. 2002 Design Review in preparation |
2000-12-11 |
| 16 | Site Development (Brown & Hofstadt) | 2000-12-06 |
| 17 | Construction, Integration and Interim Operations (Brown & Kurz) | 2000-11-28 |
| 18 | Post-construction Operations (Gordon & Brown) | 2001-02-07 |
Instructions for ALMA Division Heads and Team Leaders to request Project Book Changes.