IRAM

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IRAM
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Institutes applying for observing time on IRAM
interferometer
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IRAM and FP6

• Transnational access
• 15 of telescope time attributed to non-IRAM
  countries EU astronomers
• IRAM provides help in
• Training (school IMISS,)
• Peer review of proposals
• Observing
• Data reduction (pipeline, off-line soft)
• proposal preparation (IMISS, assistance to
  proposers)
• Operating cost of PVPdB 6 M/yr
• Help can be evaluated to 1 M /yr

• IRAM proposes to guarantee a minimum of 10
  of telescope time and requests 0.6 M/yr on this
  line. This money could help us financing new
  projects
• Wide-band high-freq. RX for PdB
• New-generation wide-band correlator for PdB
• Extension of the EW baseline to 800m
• 7th antenna on PdB
• Array receivers for PdB
• Array receivers for PV (bolometer camera,
  heterodyne arrays)

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Joint Research Activities

• SIS mixer development (wide-band)
• SIS junction fabrication
• New generation (wide-band) correlator
• New reflector panels
• Correction of phase fluctuations (interfero and
  single-dish)
• Software for reduction of (e.g. OTF) data
  (interferometer and single-dish)

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IRAM and ALMA

• Hardware
• Receiver developments
• SIS mixers/junctions
• Optics
• Receiver Integration Center

• Software
• Software developments
• Pipelineoff-line data reduction
• Telescope calibration
• Telescope control
• Regional Support Center

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Proposition for a Regional Support Center with
headquarters in Grenoble