Texas Collaboration Meeting Agendae¶

Science verification and the results of our studies will be a major element of the upcoming collaboration meeting at Texas A&M. We are scheduled to give two planary talks and have a number of parallel sessions (both SV and related topics).

Add special astrometry, photometry and SN survey sessions

Monday, Dec 10¶

SV related plenary sessions:

• Focus and Alignment (10:30-10:40, Aaron)
• Science Verification Report and Goals for this Meeting (10:40-11:10, Gary, Klaus)
• DECam Operations (11:10-11:20, Tom)

Tuesday, Dec 11¶

SV related parallel sessions:

• DES Operations (9:30 - 10:30, Tom)
• SV1: Telescope and Instrument (11:00-12:00, Klaus)
• SV2: Data Analysis Status (14:00-15:00, Gary)

Wednesday, Dec 12¶

SV related parallel sessions:

• Astrometry (9:30 - 10:30, Bob)
• SN Survey Status (9:30 - 10:30, Masao)
• SV3: Extended SV and standard tests (11:00 - 12:00, Gary )
• Photoz from SV (14:00 - 15:00, Francisco)
• Quickreduce (14:00 - 15:00, Luiz)
• Photometry (15:00 - 16:00, Paul)

Thursday, Dec 13¶

SV related parallel sessions:

• DM Data Access (9:30 - 10:30, Don)
• Object Detection and Classification (15:00 - 16:00, Paul)

Friday, Dec 14¶

SV related plenary sessions:

• SV Achievements, Future Goals and Survey Readiness (9:00-9:20, Klaus, Gary)

Detailed Agendae for the SV Sessions¶

Tuesday, 9:30 - 10:30: DES Operations
Lead: Tom Diehl
Location: Mitchell Institute M108
Remote connection: ReadyTalk code 7155259#
Docdb: http://des-docdb.fnal.gov:8080/cgi-bin/DisplayMeeting?sessionid=1787¶

Topics include:

• Shift Organization and Schedule
• Run Manager - Role, Responsibilities, Schedule, 4 pm meetings
• Review of daily procedures, responsibilities etc
• Checklists for Experts, checklists for Observers
• QA tasks
• Interface to DES-DM (daily report, exposure table)
• Call lists
• Documentation (or lack thereof)
• Report on obstac survey readiness

Tuesday, 11:00 - 12:00: SV1 (Telescope and Instrument)
Lead: Klaus Honscheid
Location: Mitchell Institute M108
Remote connection: ReadyTalk code 7155259#
Docdb: http://des-docdb.fnal.gov:8080/cgi-bin/DisplayMeeting?sessionid=1792¶

Topics include:

• Guider
• Report on telescope performance: tracking, pointing, slewing
• Report on focal plane status (N30, Low signal non linearity)
• RASICAM
• SISPI
• Seeing Measurements
• Eyeball Squad Report

Tuesday, 14:00 - 15:00: SV2 (Data Analysis Status)
Lead: Gary Bernstein
Location: Mitchell Institute M108
Remote connection: ReadyTalk code 7155259#
Docdb: http://des-docdb.fnal.gov:8080/cgi-bin/DisplayMeeting?sessionid=1797¶

Status of data analyses for SV reqs & goals that don't have special sessions. Need for future observations. Topics include:

• Optical alignment: donuts, BCAMs, AOS, PSF patterns, closing the hexapod loop.
• Ghosts & Anomalies
• Crosstalk
• Star/galaxy separation

Wednesday, 9:30 - 10:30: Astrometry
Lead: Bob Armstrong
Location: Mitchell Institute M102
Remote connection: ReadyTalk code 1175641#
Docdb: http://des-docdb.fnal.gov:8080/cgi-bin/DisplayMeeting?sessionid=1808¶

Topics include:

• DESDM performance, do we meet the requirements
• Results from community observations
• Results from SV data
• Improvements

Wednesday, 11:00 - 12:00: SV3 (Extended SV & Standard tests)
Lead: Gary Bernstein
Location: Mitchell Institute M108
Remote connection: ReadyTalk code 7155259#
Docdb: http://des-docdb.fnal.gov:8080/cgi-bin/DisplayMeeting?sessionid=1814¶

Topics include:

• Plans for SV in December/Jan
• Results from eyeball tests and other lessons learned about quality control
• What should be implemented into QR, IH for on-the-mountain QC
• QC at NCSA and filling out the Survey Table.

Wednesday, 14:00 - 14:55: Photo-z's & SV
Lead: Francisco Castander
Location: Mitchell Institute M102
Remote connection: ReadyTalk code 1175641#
Docdb: http://des-docdb.fnal.gov:8080/cgi-bin/DisplayMeeting?sessionid=1818¶

Topics include:

Wednesday, 15:05 - 16:00: Photometry
Lead: Paul Martini
Location: Mitchell Institute M102
Remote connection: ReadyTalk code 1175641#
Docdb: http://des-docdb.fnal.gov:8080/cgi-bin/DisplayMeeting?sessionid=1822¶

Topics include:

• Illumination Correction
• Fringing
• Nonlinearity

Thursday, 15:00 - 16:00: Object Classification and Detection
Lead: Paul Martini
Location: Mitchell Physics 333
Remote connection: ReadyTalk code TBD#
Docdb: http://des-docdb.fnal.gov:8080/cgi-bin/DisplayMeeting?sessionid=1846¶

Topics include:

• Galaxy photometry in finalcut relative to requirements (e.g. are the uncertainties 10% at r, i ~ 24th mag AB?)
• Depth of stellar/psf magnitudes, accuracy of color-color diagrams for stars
• Review status of SV galaxy goals (G1-G11)