====== Telecon Notes, Feb. 22, 2018 ======

Attendance: Shaul, Carlo, Chang-Goo, Brandon, Andrea, Matthieu, Clem + others

Proposed Agenda:

  * Follow up on items from last week
    * MHD-based full sky foreground maps (Brandon)
    * What limits the MHD-based maps to l<100 (Chang-Goo)
    * Status of full sky pysm maps with PICO bands and noise levels (this was Julian's item; does anyone know what is the status?)

  * Results from currently available sky model (PSM) - Mathieu and Josquin (if they are available and willing to review work done over last few months)

=== Notes ===

  * Brandon describes status of MHD-Based maps: hooked up various dust models to Chang-Goo's MHD simulation. Full sky I,Q,U maps with delta-function PICO frequencies are available. They have two dust models. A modified BB in every cell, and the Draine+Hensley model. They also include synchrotron. 
    * The band pass integration is provided by the data processing on the pysm side. Decision is to provide 5 points per band and Andrea will interpolate. 
    * **Andrea will start by interpolating two bands. Time scale: two weeks.** 
    * **Matthieu volunteers to do analysis and to start with delta-functions**
  * Matthieu is concerned about the effects of smoothing and averaging; he is running with nside=16 at the moment. 
  * Clem argues that if foreground separation is done at nside=16 then input maps should be at the same resolution.  
  * Clem says that more full sky maps are available. He recommends that we follow the same set that was done for CMB-S4. 
  * Chang-Goo explains that we should not expect the MHD-based models to extend to \ell>100 anytime soon.