Subject: Re: A comparison of different missions

From: Jeremy Mould

Submitted: Fri, 11 Jun 2004 07:49:01 -0700

Message number: 233 (previous: 232, next: 234 up: Index)

At 09:06 AM 6/11/2004 -0400, Gary Bernstein wrote:
>I believe that DEC will not be competing for CTIO time, but will rather
>have a grant of some fraction of the telescope time.
Correct, Gary. If the review panel (and NSF+DOE) gives DEC the thumbs up, 
they will
get up to 30% for 5 years. The remaining 70% of the Blanco is retained
by the TAC, and, even if the DEC is a popular instrument, its users will
not be doing LSST science per se. While I'm on the subject, the proposed DES
is primarily an SZ cluster optical ID & photo z survey. Point source FOMs
are inapplicable (though appropriate for LSST's NEAs, KBOs, weak-lensing 
and SNe). 


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