__Feb 21 2018__

Attendees: Alex, Sebastian, Gianfranco, Jean-Baptiste, Nick, Jim

Agenda:

  Imager v3 design updates (V3 located under imager options 
  Frequency Bands and Noise: Specifications to Use)
 

  Lensing forecasts

{{::cmbprobe_lensingnoise_v3.pdf|CMB lensing update}} 

  Cluster forecasts

With optical WL mass calibration with CV tau

clusters 140k
Mnu 1-sigma : 10.8 meV
w0 1-sigma : 2.29 %
wa 1-sigma : 13 %

  Any other forecast updates
  
Jean-Baptiste will post something soon regarding dust contamination.
 

  Preparation for the May workshop: preliminary schedule


  How to sharpen the extragalactic science case, in preparation for the report
  (what are the up coming milestones)

  Additionally, we should consider what S3 or S4 + PICO joint analyses to highlight
  (possibly write papers)

  Cadence for telecons

  AOB

__Minutes__

-Very impressive lensing and cluster forecasts with the new v3 specs.

-Need to include foreground cleaning for lensing, how does the lensing S/N degrade once we remove foregrounds.

-Carry CMB lensing S/N through to parameters

-For clusters consider lack of full-sky optical survey (LSST)  

-Consider correlated dust contamination, which Jean-Baptiste has started with v2, just needs to make plots and will ask Matthieu for v3 maps

-Extragalactic sources, Matthieu maps are crashing the source extraction codes. Jean-Baptiste suggests running on a cluster and use small patches. Or we ask Matthieu to produce small patches. This is work carried out by Marco and Diego.

-There are potential topics to spin off into their own papers, or a white paper on extragalactic science with pico. 

-Every 2 weeks for telecons!