Subject: LSST SWG get-together in Seattle

From: strauss@astro.princeton.edu

Submitted: Sat, 11 Sep 2004 10:41:21 -0400 (EDT)

Message number: 269 (previous: 268, next: 270 up: Index)

Hello all,
  The Seattle meeting on science opportunities with LSST begins in
just over a week (the meeting web site is:
http://www.lsst.org/Meetings/CommAccess).  As we discussed earlier,
given that many of the 
members of the SWG will be present at the meeting, we can use this as
an opportunity to meet.  Kem Cook has found us a meeting room on
Monday evening, September 20; I'll announce the exact location of the
room in my talk Monday morning.  The scheduled talks end at 5 PM on
Monday, and there is one hour of what is listed as
"wine/beer/munchies/posters" thereafter.  Let me suggest that we grab
a quick dinner, and plan to meet for two hours, starting 7:30 PM.  

  Our first major document is behind us (I understand it will be
distributed to all meeting participants!), so our next task is to
tackle face-on the big questions that we skirted in our report:

  -A detailed discussion of how much of the LSST science could be done
as a function of etendue.  What science goals would be reachable with
an etendue of 50 m^2 deg^2?  100?  What other figures of merit should
we be discussing. 

  -The answer to this question will inform the next question: Assuming
Pan-STARRS stays on its nominal schedule (first telescope first light
in early 2006, all four telescopes first light in early 2008), to what
extent will the science goals we outlined in our proposal be
accomplished by 2011 or 2012?  

  -What other surveys should we be comparing with, that will be well
underway by 2012?  I think of:
	 VST
	 the many supernova projects
	 Legacy on the CFHT
	 The Dark Energy Camera
	 The Discovery Channel Telescope? 
	 RAVE
	 (I'm sure I'm forgetting some important ones)

  -What other surveys will be getting underway on the 2012-2015
	timescale? 
	GAIA
	JDEM/SNAP
	others? 

  We will use our meeting time to figure out an effective way to
tackle these hard questions, and to map our work as a SWG ahead. 

  Please post any thoughts you might have about this.  We'll see you
in Seattle!

			Michael Strauss

P.S.  Following the meeting agenda, I see the following SWG members
planning to attend the meeting.  Anyone I'm missing?

	 Kem Cook
	 Tony Tyson
	 Andy Connolly
	 Michael Strauss
	 Dave Monet
	 Zeljko Ivezic
	 Al Harris
	 Peter Garnavich
	 Chris Stubbs
	

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