Subject: Towards the LSST DRM document; an SWG phonecon

From: strauss@astro.princeton.edu

Submitted: Wed, 16 Jul 2003 09:03:08 -0400 (EDT)

Message number: 138 (previous: 137, next: 139 up: Index)

Hello all,
  Yesterday, I sent each of the members of the LSST SWG a note 
asking for a commitment to work on the Design Reference Mission
document.  I am starting to receive replies from all of you (and
feel free to post those replies on lsst-general); I'll collate them
and send out a summary in a few days.  

  One thing that I mentioned to several of you, but which I think
needs us all to think about: the notion of figures of merit for
different science goals, as outlined briefly in Tony Tyson's
comparison of facilities (cf., lsst-general #137), is worth
expanding.  Nick Kaiser suggested that the list of figures of merit
was incomplete, and that one be included to reflect astrometric
accuracy.  Are there other figures of merit that should be considered?
I'd like to hear peoples' thoughts on that.  More generally, we could
use figures of merit to compare different observing modes on a given
telescope, so that we can ask questions like the extent to which an
observing mode focussed on getting multi-color deep data is useful for
NEA searches.  

  I am hoping that we'll see a flurry of activity as you all start
sitting down to write relevant parts of the DRM.  I would like to
suggest that we have a phone conference sometime in the first two
weeks of August.  It's not an ideal time; I'm sure many of you will be
travelling, but please send me the dates at which you will be
available to take part in such a phone conference between August 3 and
13 (weekdays).  In the past, having such a phonecon starting at 2 PM
Eastern time has worked for most of us, and is not too impossibly
early for our Hawaiian colleagues; that would be my suggestion for
this one as well.  I'll collate the results, and we'll finalize a date
by early next week. 

			Many thanks,
			Michael Strauss


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