Subject: Re: Towards the LSST DRM document

From: Jeremy Mould

Submitted: Wed, 16 Jul 2003 14:31:21 -0700

Message number: 139 (previous: 138, next: 140 up: Index)

Hi Michael and colleagues,
I'll venture my opinion that figures of merit are a very one dimensional
way of looking at things. What science a facility can complete in
a given time seems to me to offer a fuller comparative picture.
Best regards,
Jeremy

At 09:03 AM 7/16/2003 -0400, strauss@astro.princeton.edu wrote:
>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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