AGENDA

of the XXVI RadioAstron Meeting

Moscow, 18-20 July 2001

 

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July 18, Wednesday

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10:00                     Visit to Lavochkin Association

            Bus starts from hotel “Akademicheskaya” at 10:00 am

 

11:00 – 13:00

 

• Demonstration of the SRT antenna .
• Demonstration of the spacecraft Spektr.

 

14:00-15:00                Lunch

 

15:00 - 17:00              Afternoon meeting session

Chairman Kulikov S.D., co-chairman Babyshkin V.E.

 

• Welcome                                                                                                                     
  S.D. Kulikov (10 min)
• Status of the development and tests of the SRT antenna                                                
  A.S. Astavin (10 min)
• Fabrication of the carbon-fiber elements for the SRT antenna                                        
  V.E.Bitkin (10 min)
• Results of adjustment of the SRT antenna petals                                                           
  M.E. Bolotov (10 min)
• SRT surface thermal field                                                                                             
  I.S. Vinogradov (10 min)
• SRT surface deformations                                                                                            
  A.N. Kotik (10 min)
• Status of the development of thermal stabilization system for the LNAs and H-maser     
  A.A.Orlov (10 min)
• Development and  tests of the spacecraft  “SPEKTR”                                                  
  V.E.Babyshkin (20 min)

 

 

19:00                           Visit to the Moscow State Theater “Russian Ballet”

 

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July 19, Thursday

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9:30                             Visit to ASC Pushchino radio observatory (~ 100 km from Moscow).

Bus starts from hotel “Akademicheskaya”

11:00 – 13:00

 

• Demonstration of the Pushchino facilities for SRT tests and calibrations, and radio telescopes.

 

13:00 – 14:00              Lunch

 

14:00 – 18:00              Afternoon meeting session

Chairman E.Preuss

 

• Present status of the RA mission and its main parameters                                                
  N.S. Kardashev (30 min)
• Current results and plan for SRT and Interferometer tests                                               
  V.V. Andreyanov(30 min)
• General time-line for project development                                                                      
  V.E. Babyshkin (20 min)
• New 22 GHz LNA.    
  V.I. Vasilkov (10 min)

 

16:00 – 16:30              Coffee break

 

• Capabilities of the NRAO Green Bank tracking station & radio telescopes for RA        
  G. Langston (30 min)
• Russian radio telescopes for RA                                                                                   
  V.I. Slysh (10 min)
• Multi-frequency synthesis for RA: theory and implementation                                        
  S.F.Likhachev, Yu.A.Korneev (30 min)
• Ukrainian participation in RA                                                                                       
  A.A. Konovalenko (15 min)

 

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July 20, Friday

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11:30 – 13:00                          Meeting in ROSAVIAKOSMOS

Bus starts from hotel “Akademicheskaya” at 10:00 am

 

13:00 –14:00                           Lunch

 

15:00-19:00                            Afternoon meeting session at ASC

Chairman V.I. Slysh

 

• On scientific program for RA                                                                                       
  N.S. Kardashev (30 min)
• Prospects of astrometry with RA                                                                                  
  N. Bartel, W. Cannon, E. Fomalont (30 min)
• The first results from VSOP survey program                                                                 
  E.B. Fomalont (30 min)

 

16:30 – 17:00                          Coffee break

 

• Southern Hemisphere IDV radio sources                                                                    
  J. Lovell
• Space VLBI at the MPIfR                                                                                           
  A. Lobanov
• General discussion.
• RISC management and next RA Meeting (September 2002)

 

20:00                                       Closing dinner

 

List of participants

 

 

1. Foreign participants

 

Bartel N.                     Canada                        York University          

Cannon W.                  Canada                        CRESTECH

Fomalont E.                 USA                            NRAO                       

Fournier-Sicre A.         France                         ESA

Galitskii S.                   Russia                          ESA

Gurvits L.                    The Netherlands          JIVE

Holmes Ch.                 USA                            NASA

Konovalenko A.          Ukraine                       IRA

Langston G.                 USA                            NRAO

Lobanov A.                 Germany                      MPIfR

Lovell J.                       Australia                      ATNF

Preuss E.                     Germany                      MPIfR

Van’t Klooster K.        The Netherlands          ESA

 

2. Russian participants

 

Alexandrov Yu.A	ASC
Andreyanov V.V.	ASC
Antonov N.M.	ASC
Astavin A.S	Lavochkin
Babakin N.G.	ASC
Babyshkin V.E.	Lavochkin
Belousov K.G.	ASC
Bitkin V.E.	Luch
Bolotov M.E.	Lavochkin
Dagkesamanski R.D.	PRAO
Fedorchuk F.F.	ASC
Kanevski B.Z.	ASC
Kardashev N.S.	ASC
Komaev R.V.	Lavochkin
KorneevYu.A.	ASC
Kotik A.N.	ASC
Kulikov S.D.	Lavochkin
Likhacheva L.N.	ASC
Likhachev S.F.	ASC
Nikolenko A.A.	PRAO
Orlov A.A.	Lavochkin
Popov M.V.	ASC
Serebrennikov V.A.	Lavochkon
Slysh V.I.	ASC
Tolmachev A.I.	PRAO
Tsarevsky G.S.	ASC
Urmanov F.F.	Luch
Vasil’kov V.I.	ASC
Vinogradov I.S.	ASC
Yakimov V.E.	ASC