Subject: Complete* draft of the LSST SWG document

From: Michael Strauss

Submitted: Fri, 28 May 2004 17:30:52 -0400

Message number: 204 (previous: 200, next: 207 up: Index)

Hello all,
  Things have been quite quiet on the LSST SWG front for a while.  But
I am pleased to announce that we now have a complete draft of the
document that we've been working on for the past year and more.  We
are charged with delivering this document to NOAO.  I would like to
get closure on it in the next two weeks, with the aim of delivering it
two weeks from today.  I would therefore ask all members of the SWG to
read it over and send comments/corrections to the mailing list
(negative comments should be accompanied by specific suggestions of
replacement text!).  (Those of you who are not on the SWG are of
course more than welcome to add their comments as well).  I would like
to have a phone conference during the week of June 7, where we
explicitly sign off on the document. Another agenda item for the phone
conference is the future direction of the SWG; I would like to hear
from either Jeremy Mould or Sidney Wolff on this issue. 

  So, I would appreciate it if all members of the SWG, as well as
those interested in attending the meeting, could let me know their
availability for a phone conference starting at 2 PM Eastern time on
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, or Friday, June 7-11.  I will
find a time that works for the majority of us, and schedule the
meeting early next week. 

  Relative to previous posted drafts of this document, there have been
substantial additions to Chapter 8 (supernovae, thanks to hard work
from Phil Pinto), completely new Chapters 9-11 (on science outside the
core science goals, a discussion of how it all fits together, and
future concerns), and new appendices describing the 8.4m LSST design,
Pan-STARRS, and a discussion of data distribution policy.  A small
point worth mentioning: the previous draft made reference to the 'Dark
Matter Telescope' when discussing the Angel-Tyson design, while the
current draft refers (I believe consistently) to the '8.4m LSST'; see
the end of the introductory chapter for a discussion of this.

  Again, post comments/questions/suggestions/new text/kudos to
lsst-general@astro.princeton.edu. 

  The document itself can be found at:


ftp://ftp.astro.princeton.edu/strauss/LSST/DRM.ps.gz (gzipped postscript)

or

ftp://ftp.astro.princeton.edu/strauss/LSST/DRM.pdf (PDF format)

  Thanks to everyone for their very hard work on this!

			       -Michael Strauss

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