Records of the NRAO > MMA Series > MMA Planning Unit

Proposition Commune pour un Observatoire sur Ondes Millimetriques, 1975

Start Date: 1975-02

The Concept of a Millimeter Array, 1982

Description: Includes correspondence

Start Date: 1982-09-10

MMA Correspondence, 1982

Description: Correspondence

Start Date: 1982

Millimeter Array Astronomy Meeting held at Bell Laboratories, 28-29 October 1982

Description: Includes correspondence, journal cuts.

Start Date: 1982-09-10

Report of Subcommittee on Millimeter- and Submillimeter-Wavelength Astronomy, 1982-1983

Description: Includes correspondence related to April 1983 report. National Science Foundation, Astronomy Advisory Committee, Subcommittee chaired by Alan H. Barrett

Start Date: 1982-12-03

The Second BTL Meeting (February 9-10): Impressions Gained and Conclusions Drawn, 1983

Description: Memo reporting on Bell Telephone Laboratories meeting

Start Date: 1983-02-17

Formation of Group to Set Down Instrument Details for Millimeter Array. 1983

Description: Memo

Start Date: 1983-03-03

Questions about Design of the Millimeter Array, 1983

Description: Memo responding to Roberts 3/3/1983 request to set up group to study millimeter array design

Start Date: 1983-03-16

MMA Correspondence, 1983

Description: Correspondence

Start Date: 1983

Are We Thinking Boldly Enough?, 1984

Description: MMA Memo 25. Proposal to build the MMA in Chile

Start Date: 1984-10-01

MMA Correspondence, 1984

Description: Correspondence

Start Date: 1984

MMA Newsletter, 1984-1989

Description: Scattered issues

Start Date: 1984-01

NRAO Workshop - Millimeter Array Sciences, 1985

Description: Includes correspondence, schedule, notes

Start Date: 1985-06-11

The Summer 1985 Concept of the Proposed NRAO Millimeter Array, 1985

Description: Later became MMA Memo 34

Start Date: 1985-10

Factors Affecting the Sensitivity of a Millimeter Array - Further Discussion, 1985

Description: Later became MMA Memo 35

Start Date: 1985-10

An Interim mm Astronomy Instrument, 1985

Description: Later became MMA Memo 36

Start Date: 1985-11-11

MMA Correspondence, 1985

Description: Correspondence

Start Date: 1985

MMA Correspondence, 1986

Description: Correspondence

Start Date: 1986

MMA Pre-Proposal, 1986-1987

Description: Includes notes, correspondence, drafts

Start Date: 1986-02-04

Conceptual Proposal for the Millimeter Array - Draft, 1986

Description: Includes correspondence, notes

Start Date: 1986-03-12

Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory Millimeter Array, 1986-1988

Description: Includes correspondence, agenda, meeting notes

Start Date: 1986-10-06

MMA Correspondence, 1987

Description: Correspondence

Start Date: 1987

Science with a Millimeter Array (MMA Design Study vol. I), January 1988

Description: Proceedings of an NRAO Workshop held at the NRAO Green Bank, September 30 - October 1, 1985. Edited by A. Wootten and F.R. Schwab. NRAO Workshop no.14

Start Date: 1988-01

The Millimeter Array Design Concept - MMA Design Study vol. II, 1988

Description: Edited by R.L. Brown and F.R. Schwab

Start Date: 1988-01

MMA Correspondence, 1988

Description: Correspondence

Start Date: 1988

MMA Progress Reports, March 1989

Description: Includes Feb. 1988 meeting summary, correspondence, progress report, artist's drawing of MMA

Start Date: 1988-02

MMA Working Group Organization, 1988

Start Date: 1988-05-13

Coordination Meeting Minutes, 1988-1996

Description: Minutes of telecon meetings.

Start Date: 1988-11-03

Prototype Antenna for MMA, 1988

Description: Correspondence

Start Date: 1988-12-12

Atmospheric Transparency Tests for the SAO Submillimeter Array, 1989

Description: Includes correspondence, report

Start Date: 1989-05-09

MMA Science Workshop, November 15-18, 1989

Description: Includes correspondence, agenda

Start Date: 1989-07-07

MMA Correspondence, 1989

Description: Correspondence

Start Date: 1989

Ideas for NRAO's MMA Antennas, January 1990

Start Date: 1990-01

The Millimeter Array - Proposal to the National Science Foundation, May 1990 draft

Description: Includes draft of proposal, correspondence, list of contributors

Start Date: 1990-04-06

MMA Development and Prototyping Projects for Tucson, 1990

Start Date: 1990-06-21

The Millimeter Array - Proposal to the National Science Foundation, 1990

Description: Includes proposal and addendum

Start Date: 1990-07

MMA Correspondence, 1990

Description: Correspondence

Start Date: 1990

MMA / NSF, 1990-1994

Description: Includes correspondence, reports, viewgraph copies

Start Date: 1990-07-26

History - MMA Proposal, 1990-1991

Description: Includes notes, agenda, reprint, correspondence

Start Date: 1990-09-24

MMA Proposal Chronology, 1990-2004

Description: Viewgraph copies

Start Date: 1990-09

MMA General, 1990-1995

Description: Correspondence, memos, reports

Start Date: 1990-11-07

An independent simulation of imaging characteristics of a millimetre array, with and without a single large element, and a LE pointing correction algorithm, 1990

Start Date: 1990-11-25

NSF-MMA Proposal Review, 1991

Description: Includes correspondence, information on NSF site visit April 9-10, 1991, anonymous Reviews of the MMA Proposal

Start Date: 1991-02-12

SEST Users Meeting and ESO Workshop on Millimeter-Wave Interferometry, 1991

Description: Meeting report

Start Date: 1991-05-30

HFETs and Receivers for the Millimeter-Wave Array, 1991

Description: Includes memorandum and related correspondence

Start Date: 1991-08-12

MMA Correspondence, 1991

Description: Correspondence

Start Date: 1991

MMA Correspondence, 1992

Description: Correspondence

Start Date: 1992

Millimeter Array Design and Development Plan, 1992-1995

Description: Includes correspondence related to September 1992 plan

Start Date: 1992-03-10

Millimeter Array Design and Development Plan, 1992

Start Date: 1992-09

Report to the 1993 Visiting Committee, 11 March 1993

Start Date: 1993-03-11

NRAO Users Committee, June 1993

Description: Report and presentation

Start Date: 1993-06

MMA Antenna Design, 1993

Description: Viewgraph copies

Start Date: 1993-09-14

MMA Correspondence, 1993

Description: Correspondence

Start Date: 1993

Netherlands Participation, 1993-1997

Description: Includes drafts, agreements, reports, correspondence, notes, agendas, meeting materials, journal cut, "Proposal for Dutch Participation in a Large Millimeter Array - 1995?"

Start Date: 1993

MMA Correspondence, 1994

Description: Correspondence

Start Date: 1994

MMA - California Arrays, 1994-1999

Description: Correspondence

Start Date: 1994-05-16

NSF, 1994-1999

Description: Includes correspondence, journal cut

Start Date: 1994-08-04

The Millimeter Array Project Plan - Draft, 1994

Description: Emailed draft

Start Date: 1994-09-07

MMA - Canada, 1994-1998

Description: Includes correspondence, report, viewgraph copies

Start Date: 1994-09-26

NSF Miscellany, 1994-1999

Description: Includes "Project Development Plan of the MMA Sep 1994", viewgraphs of the Project Development Plan, "Status of the MMA July 1996" by R. Dickman (viewgraph copies), correspondence

Start Date: 1994-09

Agreement to Form the MMA Development Consortium, 1 October 1994

Start Date: 1994-10-01

MMA Mexico, 1994-1997

Description: Includes correspondence, newspaper

Start Date: 1994-11-22

MMA Consortium Agreement, 1994-1996

Description: Correspondence

Start Date: 1994

Millimeter Array Development Consortium (MDC), 1994-1997

Description: Includes "Report of the Systems Working Group of the MMA Development Group" and correspondence.

Start Date: 1994

Memorandum of Agreement - University of Chile, 1995

Description: Agreement signed by Paul Vanden Bout for NRAO on 1/10/1995 and by Leonardo Bronfman for University of Chile on 2/27/1995

Start Date: 1995-01-10

MMA Users Committee Report, 1995

Description: Report

Start Date: 1995

MMA Correspondence, 1995

Description: Correspondence

Start Date: 1995

MMA Systems Working Group, 1995-1996

Description: Meeting agendas and notes, related correspondence

Start Date: 1995-01

Description: Includes correspondence, notes, reports, journal cuts, "Exploration for Neighboring Planetary Systems with the Millimeter Array: A Research Partnership Between the NSF and NASA - April 1996 - NRAO"

Start Date: 1995-01

AURA Agreement, 1995-1998

Description: Includes correspondence, agreement (Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Inc.)

Start Date: 1995-02-10

Non-recurring Cost Estimates for the Millimeter Wave Array, 1995

Start Date: 1995-03-17

MMA Teleconference, 6 April 1995

Description: Draft agenda

Start Date: 1995-04-06

A Possible MMA Correlator Design, 1995

Description: Written 5/5/1995, revised 8/16/1995

Start Date: 1995-05-05

Operation of the MMA in Chile, 1995

Start Date: 1995-06-01

MMA - Brazil, 1995

Description: Correspondence

Start Date: 1995-06-12

Spain Participation, 1995-1999

Description: Includes correspondence, notes, viewgraphs, trip reports, newspaper clippings, journal cuts

Start Date: 1995-07-18

England, 1995-1996

Description: Correspondence

Start Date: 1995-07-26

The Millimeter Array Project Overview and Status, August 1995

Start Date: 1995-08

MMA Science and Technology Workshop, 5-7 October 1995

Description: Agenda and report

Start Date: 1995-10-05

Possible LMSA-MMA Collaborations, 1995

Description: Includes:
- Joint MMA-LMSA Configurations on the Chajnantor Site by S.M. Foster, 22 November 1995
- The Atacama Array: A Possible LMSA-MMA Collaboration in Chile by R.L. Brown, December 1995

Start Date: 1995-12

MMA Memos, 1995

Description: Includes:
- Tucson Meeting, 3 June 1995
- Nobeyama Meeting, 11 November 1995

Start Date: 1995

JPL SIS MOU, 1995-1996

Description: Includes drafts of Memorandum of Agreement between AUI/NRAO and Caltech/JPL and correspondence.

Start Date: 1995

MMA Europe, 1995-1998

Description: Includes: "A Next Generation MM Interferometer for Radio Astronomy (April 1995)", "ESO Organizational Climate Report (October 1997)" and "The Role of ESO in European Astronomy (1998)"

Start Date: 1995

Detection and Imaging of Extrasolar Planetary Systems at mm/submm Wavelengths - rough draft, 1996

Start Date: 1996-01-15

Millimeter Array Progress During Last Six Months, 1996

Start Date: 1996-03-01

1996 Visiting Committee Millimeter Array, 1996

Description: Report; newspaper clipping

Start Date: 1996-03-03

Exploration for Neighboring Planetary Systems with the Millimeter Array: A Research Partnership Between the NSF and NASA, 1996

Start Date: 1996-04

NRO/SAO/NRAO Meeeting, 11-12 March 1996

Description: Agenda

Start Date: 1996

Preliminary Report on Water Supply, June 1996

Description: Written by Inverex

Start Date: 1996-06

Laser LO System for the MMA, 1996-1997

Description: Two memos to R.L. Brown, one dated 6/12/1996 and the second dated 3/6/1997

Start Date: 1996-06-12

MMA Correspondence, 1996

Description: Correspondence

Start Date: 1996

MMA-NSF Letter Writing / Personal Contact Campaign, 1996

Description: Correspondence

Start Date: 1996-06-14

NSF Cooperative Research and Development, 9 July 1996-1 August 1996

Start Date: 1996-07-09

The Chilean Gemini Project Office, September 1996

Description: Also includes mention of CONICYT.

Start Date: 1996

MMA South Pole, October 1996

Description: Correspondence and reprint

Start Date: 1996-10

ESO Interferometer, 1996

Start Date: 1996

OECD Megascience Forum, 1996-1997

Description: Correspondence

Start Date: 1997

Prospectus for Foreign Participation in the MMA, 1996-1998

Start Date: 1996-09-05

France, 1996-1997

Description: Includes correspondence, journal cuts

Start Date: 1996-09-13

Germany, 1996

Description: Correspondence

Start Date: 1996-12-12

MMA Origins, 1996

Description: Correspondence

Start Date: 1996

BIMA/MMA, 1996-2001

Description: Correspondence, reports

Start Date: 1996

Spanish-language MMA Publications, 1997-1998

Description: Includes:
- El Proyecto Astronomico MMA Descripcion Y Estado de Avance, 1997
- El Proyecto Astronomico MMA Descripcion Y Estado de Avance, 1998
- Descripcion y Estado del Proyecto, 1998
- Sitio Recomendado para el Conjunto Milimetrico, undated

Start Date: 1997

MMA Receivers, 1997

Start Date: 1997-01-23

MMA Testimony to Congress, 1997

Description: Includes "The Millimeter Array Project Overview and Status April 1997"; Paul Vanden Bout's Testimony to the House Committee on April 9, 1997; correspondence

Start Date: 1997-03-26

LSA: Large Southern Array Combined Report - An IRAM-ESO-OSO-NFRA Study Project, 1997

Start Date: 1997-04

Japan-US Workshop on MM and Submm Astronomy at 10 Milli-Arcseconds Resolution, 16-19 March 1997

Description: Abstracts, agenda, correspondence.

Start Date: 1997

MMA: Project Overview and Status, April 1997

Start Date: 1997-04

Cost Parameters and Allocations, 1997

Start Date: 1997-06-16

Resolution to Organize Partnership to Explore Union of LSA and MMA into a Single Common Project to be Located in Chile, 1997

Description: Resolution signed by Paul Vanden Bout for NRAO and Riccardo Giacconi for ESO. Includes drafts and correspondence.

Start Date: 1997-06-26

MMA/LSA Joint Discussion, 25-26 June 1997

Description: Agenda

Start Date: 1997

LSA/MMA Management Working Group Meeting, 18 September 1997

Description: Agenda

Start Date: 1997

AUI/UChile Accreditation Ceremony, November 1997

Description: Promotional brochures

Start Date: 1997-11

Overview of the MMA Design and Development Phase, November 1997

Description: Report

Start Date: 1997-11

Business Operations in Chile, 1997

Description: Correspondence, notes, journal cut

Start Date: 1997-11-19

MMA Memos and Correspondence, 1997

Description: Correspondence and memos. Authors include Bob Brown, Mark Gordon, Mel Ulmer and Jeff Mangum.

Start Date: 1997

MOAs with Chilean Universities, 1997

Description: Includes:
- Memorandum of Agreement on the Development of the MMA in Chile with The University of Chile (draft), 21 October 1997
- Memorandum of Agreement on the Development of the MMA in Chile with the Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile…

Start Date: 1997

Records of the NRAO > MMA Series > MMA Planning Unit

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