2022-07-22 TTA Requirements Meeting

• Date: 22 Jul 2022 
• Time: 9:00 ET
• Location: nraozoom04 

Attendance:

• Jeff Kern
• Dana Balser
• Mark Whitehead 
• Allison Costa

Agenda:

• ngVLA Gap Analysis:
• • Clarify:
    • Multiple Capabilities and Observation Specifications per Allocation request.
    • Section 1.1.3: Capability Request Parameters vs Specifications
  • Suggest:
    • Future drafts of the document should refer to the definitions in RD4 as well for more functional and descriptive definitions of the Capability Request Specifications, which are noted in the footnote in 1.1.2  ("These inputs are first introduced and described in the context of TTA in RD3...")
    • Adopting consistent nomenclature Field Source, not Field Setup; Spectral Specification, not Spectral Setup; and Performance Parameters, not Control and Performance Parameters.
  • Discuss:
    • Multiple Capability Requests vs multiple Allocation Requests.  We should discuss these concepts and maybe flesh them out.  Might be better to do this now than later.
    • SRDPs.  We should discuss where in the proposal and how these will be specified by the user.
    • Simultaneous multi-band observations.  Is this a new concept?
    • Multiple sensitivities per beam size.  Related to multiple sub-arrays.  We should discuss if this is an issue or not.
• Test Planning:  STT-800 - Getting issue details... STATUS

Open Actions:

• Dana Balser  will present on what information and plots are needed for the TAC