Morning, Thursday, January 4, 2018 – New Telescopes, Techniques, and Technology I
Session Co-Chairs: Dan Jacobs (Arizona State) and Dave DeBoer (UC Berkeley)
- J1-1: The Science Program for the Next Generation Very Large Array (Chris Carilli*, Eric Murphy, Rob Selina)
- J1-2: Antenna Concept for the Next Generation Very Large Array
(James M. Jackson*, Robert Selina, Wes Grammer) - J1-3: Searching for Cosmic Dawn from the Sub-Antarctic (Liju Philip*)
- J1-4: Baseline Receiver Concept for a Next Generation Very Large Array (Wes Grammer*, Silver Sturgis, Sivasankaran Srikanth, Rob Selina)
- J1-5: The Breakthrough Listen Search for Intelligent Life Beyond Earth (Andrew P. V. Siemion*, Steve Croft, David DeBoer, Emilio Enriquez, Griffin Foster, Vishal Gajjar, Greg Hellbourg, Jack Hickish, Brian Lacki, Matt Lebofsky, David MacMahon, Danny Price, Dan Werthimer, Gerry Zhang)
- J1-6: Separating the Global 21cm Signal from Strong Foregrounds and Instrument Systematics using an SVD/MCMC Pipeline (Keith Tauscher*, Jack O. Burns, David Rapetti, Eric R. Switzer)
- J1-7: A Joint Deconvolution Algorithm to Combine Single Dish and Interferometer Data for Wideband Multi-Term Imaging (Urvashi Rau*, Nikhil Naik)
- J1-8: Comparing Redundant and Sky Model Based Interferometric Calibration: A First Look with Phase II of the MWA (Wenyang Li*)
- J1-9: Optimizing Low Frequency Array Design (Matthew Kolopanis*, Daniel C. Jacobs)
- J1-10: A Resistive Wideband Beam-Splitter Screen (Nivedita Mahesh*, Ravi Subrahmanyan, Uday N. Shankar, Agaram Raghunathan)
Afternoon, Thursday, January 4, 2018 – New Telescopes, Techniques, and Technology II
Session Co-Chairs: Dan Jacobs (Arizona State) and Dave DeBoer (UC Berkeley)
- J2-1: Deployment of a Novel Interferometer Architecture on the LWA-Sevilleta Station (Nithyanandan Thyagarajan*, Adam P. Beardsley, Judd D. Bowman,Greg B. Taylor, Jayce Dowell, Miguel F. Morales)
- J2-2: Advances in an 8 to 50 GHz Cryogenic Low Noise Amplifier for the Next Generation Very Large Array (Andrew Janzen*, Ezra Long, Lorene Samoska, Jose Velazco)
- J2-3: Preliminary Test Results of JPL’s Ultrawideband Receiver Package for the ngVLA (Jose E. Velazco*, Andrew W. Janzen, Daniel J. Hoppe, Lorene A. Samoska, Ezra M. Long, James G. Bowen, Larry R. D’Addario, Melissa A. Soriano, Joseph Lazio)
- J2-4: Hyper Spectral FFT Imager (Deepthi Gorthi*, David DeBoer, Jack Hickish, Aaron Parsons, Kathryn Rosie, Dan Werthimer)
- J2-5: The Breakthrough Listen Search for Intelligent Life: 1.1-1.9 GHz Observations of 692 Nearby Stars (Jesus E. Enriquez*, Andrew Siemion, Griffin Foster, Vishal Gajjar, Greg Hellbourg, Jack Hickish, Howard Isaacson, Danny C. Price, Steve Croft, David DeBoer, Matt Lebofsky, David MacMahon, Dan Werthimer)
- J2-6: Progress on HIRAX, The Hydrogen Intensity and Real-Time Analysis Experiment (Emily R. Kuhn*)
Afternoon, Friday, January 5, 2018 – ALMA2030
Session Co-Chairs: Al Wootten (NRAO) and Arielle Moullet (NRAO)
- J3-1: Sustaining ALMA Science Through 2030: A North American Perspective (Al Wootten*)
- J3-2: Upgrade to the 64-Antenna ALMA Correlator (Rodrigo Amestica*, Richard J. Lacasse, Raymond P. Escoffier, Joseph H. Greenberg, Alejandro F. Saez, Alain Baudry, John C. Webber)
- J3-3: The Next Generation ALMA Correlator (Jonathan Weintroub*)
- J3-4: The ALMA Phasing Project Phase 2: Extending and Enhancing the VLBI Science Capabilities of ALMA (Lynn D. Matthews*, Geoffrey B. Crew, Michael H. Hecht, Sheperd S. Doeleman, Vincent L. Fish, Walter Alef, Richard Lacasse, Ivan Marti-Vidal, Neil M. Nagar, Helge Rottmann, Alan L. Roy, Alejandro F. Saez)
- J3-5: The ALMA Band 1 Receiver: Building the Lower Frequency End of ALMA (Oscar Morata*)
- J3-6: Superconducting Parametric Amplifiers: The Next Big Thing in (Sub)Millimeter-Wave Receivers (Omid Noroozian*, Anthony R. Kerr, Jeffrey G. Mangum, Peter K. Day2, Henry G. LeDuc2, David P. Woody3,
Jonas Zmuidzinas, Arthur W. Lichtenberger, Michael E. Cyberey, Robert M. Weikle) - J3-7: Plans for an ALMA Band-6 Receiver Upgrade (Anthony R. Kerr, Omid Noroozian*, Sivasankaran Srikanth, Arthur W. Lichtenberger, Joel Schleeh, Neal R. Erickson)
- J3-8: Discovery From Hyperspectral ALMA Imagery with Neuroscope (Erzsebet Merenyi*, Andrea Isella, Joshua Taylor)
- J3-9: Full Mueller Mosaic Imaging with ALMA (Sanjay Bhatnagar*)
- J3-10: The Spectrum Landscape: Prospects for Radio Astronomy (Harvey S. Liszt*)
Morning, Saturday, January 6, 2018 – The VLBA at 25: Recent Accomplishments and Future Directions
Session Co-Chairs: Greg Taylor (University of New Mexico), Walter Brisken (LBO)
- J4-1: Concepts for a Next-Generation VLBA (Jonathan D. Romney*)
- J4-2: The Next Generation Very Large Array Long Baseline Option (Robert J. Selina, Steven Durand*)
- J4-3: VLBA Science Highlights (Greg B. Taylor*)
- J4-4: Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) in the Age of Fermi and Gaia (Frank K. Schinzel*, Leonid Petrov)
- J4-5: Polarization Evolution of Parsec-Scale Jets in Active Galactic Nuclei (Matthew L. Lister*)
- J4-6: Maser Observations with VLBI (Ylva Pihlstrom*)
- J4-7: Gravitational Lenses as High-Resolution Telescopes (Anna Barnacka*)
- J4-8: Astronometry with VLBI (Robert T. Zavala*, Gregory B. Taylor)
- J4-9: Towards the ICRF3: Comparing USNO 2016A VLBI Global Solution to Gaia and ICRF2 (Megan C. Johnson*, Julien Frouard, Alan L. Fey, Bryan N. Dorland, Valeri Makarov)
Morning, Saturday, January 6, 2018 – New Telescopes, Techniques, and Technology III
Session Co-Chairs: Dan Jacobs (Arizona State) and Dave DeBoer (UC Berkeley)
- J5-1: Real-Time Beamforming for the Focal-Plane L-Band Array Feed on the Green Bank Telescope (FLAG) (Mark W. Ruzindana*, Karl F. Warnick, Brian D. Jeffs, Richard A. Black, Mitchell Burnett, D.j. Pisano, Duncan R. Lorimer, Nicholas Pingel, Kaustubh Rajwade, Richard M. Prestage, Steve White, Bob Simon, Luke Hawkins, William Shillue, D A. Roshi)
- J5-2: Performance Estimates for the Next-Generation Very Large Array (Robert J. Selina*, Brian Butler, Eric J. Murphy)
- J5-3: A Study of the Compact Water Vapor Radiometer for the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (Ajay Gill*, Robert Selina, Bryan Butler)
- J5-4: Next Generation SETI and Casper Experiments (Dan Werthimer*)
- J5-5: 21cm Power-Spectrum Analysis of the 3C196 Flanking Field (Nivedita Mahesh*, Andre R. Offringa)
- J5-6: Scattering Study of Pulsars Below 100 MHz (Karishma Bansal*, Greg Taylor, Kevin Stovall*)
- J5-7: Complimentary Study of Juno/MWR Investigation of Jupiter’s Synchrotron Emission from Ground-Based Observations at Low Frequencies (Daniel Santos-Costa*, Masafumi Imai, Scott J. Bolton, Steve M. Levin, Mike A. Janssen, Philippe Zarka, Julien Girard, Cyril Tasse, Hajime Kita, Fuminori Tsuchiya, Hiroaki Misawa,Jack E. Connerney)
- J5-8: Sample Variance in Realistic 21cm EOR Simulations (Adam E. Lanman*, Jonathan C. Pober)
- J5-9: FRB121102: First Detections at 8-GHz and Broadband Properties (Vishal Gajjar*)
- J5-10: Building Confidence in EOR Power Spectrum Limits (Miguel F. Morales*)
Afternoon, Saturday, January 6, 2018 – Spectral Line Cosmology and Low-Frequency Arrays
Session Co-Chairs: Dave DeBoer (UC Berkeley) and Greg Taylor (University of New Mexico)
- J6-1: Pulsars at Low Frequencies (Kevin Stovall*)
- J6-2: 21cm Power Spectrum Lessons: Updated Results from the PAPER Experiment (Carina Cheng*, Paper Collaboration)
- J6-3: The VLA Low Band Ionosphere and Tranient Experiment (VLITE) (Tracy Clarke*, Namir Kassim, Simona Giacintucci, Wendy Peters, Emil Polisensky, Joseph Helmboldt, Emily Richards)
- J6-4: Latest Results from EDGES (Judd D. Bowman*, Alan E. E. Rogers, Raul A. Monsalve, Thomas J. Mozdzen, Nivedita Mahesh)
- J6-5: The LWA1 Low Frequency Sky Survey (Jayce Dowell*, Gregory B. Taylor, Frank Schinzel, Namir E. Kassim, Kevin Stovall)
- J6-6: HYPERION: A Novel Approach to Observing the Reionization Global Signal (Kara Kundert*, Aaron Parsons)
- J6-7: Improved 21cm Epoch of Reionization Power Spectrum Measurements with a Hybrid Foreground Subtraction and Avoidance Technique (Joshua Kerrigan*)
- J6-8: Stereoscopic Observations of Jupiter’s Decametric Radio Bursts with Juno, Cassini, STEREO A, Wind and Earth-Based Observatories (Masafumi Imai*, William S. Kurth, George B. Hospodarsky, Scott J. Bolton, John E. P. Connerney, Steven M. Levin, Alain Lecacheux, Laurent Lamy, Philippe Zarka, Tracy E. Clarke, Charles A. Higgins)
- J6-9: Addressing Foregrounds and Systematics for Imaging the 21cm Reionization Signal (Aaron Parsons*)
- J6-10: NGLOBO High Resolution, Low-Frequency Imaging and High-z HI Cosmology: The Long View Towards Instrumental Convergence (Namir E. Kassim*)