Morning, Wednesday, January 4, 2017 – New Telescopes, Techniques, and Technology I
Session Co-Chairs: Dave DeBoer (UC Berkeley) and Jeff Mangum (NRAO)
- J1-1: Murchison Widefield Array: Highlights and Plans (Randall B. Wayth, Adrian Sutinjo*)
- J1-2: Enabling Detection of the Epoch of Reionization with Next-Generation Radio Instruments (Dave DeBoer*, Judd Bowman)
- J1-3: Meerkat Status Update
(Schalk W. Esterhuyse*) - J1-4: Progress on HIRAX, The Hydrogen Intensity and Real-Time Analysis Experiment (Benjamin Saliwanchik*)
- J1-5: Advances in 21cm EoR Imaging Pipelines (Adam Beardsleyr*)
- J1-6: Mitigating Spectral Leakage in Delay Filtered Paper-64 Visibilities Using Foreground Subtraction (Joshua Kerrigan*, Jonathan Prober)
- J1-7: Interferometric Bandpass Calibration with Redundant Baselines for 21cm Cosmology (Josh Dillon*)
- J1-8: Precision Cosmological Measurements with DARE and EDGES (Raul Monsalve*, Jack Burns, Richard Bradley, etal.)
- J1-9: Calibration Requirements for Detecting the 21cm Epoch of Reionization Power Spectrum and Implications for the SKA (Nichole Barry*, Bryna Hazelton, etal.)
- J1-10: Searching for Cosmic Dawn from the Sub-Antarctic with SCI-HI (Hsin Chiang*)
- J1-11: Results from the Latest Commissioning Run of a Cryogenically Cooled Phased Array Feed for the Green Bank Telescope (Nickolas Pingel*, Richard Black, etal.)
Afternoon, Wednesday, January 4, 2017 – Next Generation Very Large Array
Session Co-Chairs: Bryan Butler (NRAO) and Steve Durand (NRAO)
- J2-1: Next Generation Very Large Array: Science Overview and Community Studies (Chris Carilli*, Eric Murphy, Mark McKinnon)
- J2-2: Next Generation Very Large Array: An Overview (Bryan Butler*, Chris Carilli, Mark McKinnon, Eric Murphy)
- J2-3: Strawman Specifications for the Next Generation Very Large Array (Rob Selina*, Chris Carilli)
- J2-4: Design Considerations for the ngVLA Antennas (David Woody*)
- J2-5: Towards Optics Design for the Next Generation Very Large Array (Sivasankaran Srikanth*)
- J2-6: ngVLA Cryogenic Subsystem Concept (Denis Urbain*, Wes Grammer, Steve Durand)
- J2-7: ngVLA Baseline Receiver system Conceptual Design (Wes Grammer*, Sivasankaran Srikanth, Marian Pospieszalski, Silver Sturgis)
- J2-8: Implementation Status of the Ultra-Wideband Receiver Package for the North American Array (Jose Velazco*, Melissa Soriano, etal.)
- J2-9: Antenna Electronics Concept for the Next Generation Very Large Array (James Jackson*, Rob Selina)
- J2-10: Theory and Measurements of Wide-Band Fiber Optics Links (James Lamb*)
- J2-11: Array Processing Methods for Radio Astronomical RFI Mitigation: A Case Study for the ngVLA (Brian Jeffs*, Richard Black, Karl Warnick)
- J2-12: Experiments in Advanced Fault Detection in the Jansky Very Large Array (Alan Erickson*, Kerry Shores)
Afternoon, Thursday, January 5, 2017 – New Telescopes, Techniques and Technology II
Session Co-Chairs: Dave DeBoer (UC Berkeley) and Jeff Mangum (NRAO)
- J3-1: ALMA Digital Downconverter (Silas Ashton*)
- J3-2: Surveying the Molecular Gas Fueling Early Star Formtion: Present Results and Future Directions (Garrett Keating*, Dan Marrone, etal.)
- J3-3: Sustaining Submillimeter Science in the Next Decade and Beyond (Al Wootten*, Jeff Mangum)
Afternoon, Thursday, January 5, 2017 – Cosmic Microwave Background Polarization
Session Co-Chairs: Dan Marrone (University of Arizona), Miguel Morales (University of Washington)
- J4-1: Overview of Detector Arrays for the Measurement of Cosmic Microwave Background Polaization (Johannes Hubmayr*)
- J4-2: Next Generation Cosmology with Advanced ACTPol (Sara Simon*)
- J4-3: The BICEP/Keck CMB Polarization Approach: Measuring Degree Angular Scales with Small Apertures (Kirit Karkare*)
- J4-4: SPT-3G: The Third Generation Camera and Survey for the South Pole Telescope (Joaquin Vieira*)
- J4-5: The Cosmology Large Angular Scale Surveyor (Lucas Parker*)
- J4-6: Measuring Galactic Synchrotron with the C-Band All Sky Survey (Heiko Heilgendorff*)
Morning, Friday, January 6, 2017 – New Telescopes, Techniques, and Technology III
Session Co-Chairs: Dave DeBoer (UC Berkeley) and Jeff Mangum (NRAO)
- J5-1: Spherical Harmonic Power Spectra and the Light Cone Problem in Intensity Mapping (Adrian Liu*)
- J5-2: Precision Simulations of Cosmic Dawn Experiments (Adam Lanman*)
- J5-3: Investigation on Improvement of Radio Interferometry Calibration Using Redundant Calibration Along with Sky Model Calibration (Weyang Li*, Jonathan Prober)
- J5-4: The Breakthrough Listen SETI Program (Dan Werthimer*, David Anderson, etal.)
- J5-5: A Symbiotic Beamforming Approach for Improved Astronomical Surveys (Greg Hellbourg*)
- J5-6: An L-Band Cryogenic Phased Array for the Green Bank Telescope: Instrumentation Upgrades and Expanded Field-of-View (Bill Shillue*, Anish Roshi, etal.)
- J5-7: Ultra Low Noise S-Band LNA for Deep Space Communication (Andrew Jansen*)
- J5-8: Automated Radio Astronomy Observations with the NASA Deep Space Network (Thomas Kuiper*, Charles Nauder, etal.)
- J5-9: The Status of the Five-Hundred-Meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope (Di Li*, Youling Yue)
Afternoon, Friday, January 6, 2017 – Observatory Reports and Lessons Learned
Session Co-Chairs: Dave DeBoer (UC Berkeley) and Jeff Mangum (NRAO)
- J6-1: Owens Valley Radio Observatory Site Report (James Lamb*)
- J6-2: The Green Bank Telescope: A Status Update (Richard Prestage*, Robert Anderson, etal.)
- J6-3: Extremely Low-Noise Cryogenic Amplifiers for Radio Astronomy: Past, Present, and Future (Marian Pospieszalski*)
Afternoon, Friday, January 6, 2017 – Planetary Remote Sensing
Session Co-Chairs: Bryan Butler (NRAO) and Peter Williams (Harvard University)
- J7-1: Early Observations of Jupiter with Juno’s Microwave Radiometer (Michael Janssen*, Scott Bolton, etal.)
- J7-2: Use of the Juno Microwave Radiometer (MWR) in the Study of Jovian Atmospheric Composition, Structure, and Dynamics (Amadeo Bellotti*, Paul Steffes, etal.)
- J7-3: Investigating Ammonia Gas in the Jovian Atmosphere Using Centimeter Wavelength Total Flux (Ramsey Karim*, Dave DeBoer, Imke de Pater, Garrett Keating)
- J7-4: Improving the Planetary Ephemeris with VLBA Astrometry: Transitioning from Cassini to Juno (Dayton Jones*, William Folkner, etal.)
- J7-5: Observations of Solar System Bodies with the VLA and ALMA (Bryan Butler*)
- J7-6: Investigating the Ice Shell and Buried Ocean on Europa with the Schumann Resonance (Thomas Eubanks*)