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
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!