https://zzz.physics.umn.edu/!ipsig/ 2026-04-24T17:02:01+00:00 https://zzz.physics.umn.edu/!ipsig/ https://zzz.physics.umn.edu/!ipsig/lib/tpl/physics/images/favicon.ico text/html 2019-11-27T19:01:39+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://zzz.physics.umn.edu/!ipsig/private/home?rev=1574881299&do=diff Probe EC Private Area Telecons * Telecon + Notes 20190709 (Response to RFI) ---------- * Telecon + Notes 20190709 () * Telecon + Notes 20190703 () * Telecon + Notes 20190626 () * Telecon + Notes 20190619 () * Telecon + Notes 20190529 (Preparation for submitting 10 page white paper to Decadal) ---------- * Telecon + Notes 20190227 () * Telecon + Notes 20190220 () * Telecon + Notes 20190213 () * Telecon + Notes 20190206 () * Telecon + Notes 20190130 () * Te… text/html 2017-05-22T13:47:29+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://zzz.physics.umn.edu/!ipsig/private/teamx?rev=1495460849&do=diff TeamX * Email from Keith, May 17, 2017 (underline by SH): “Team X can do a single spacecraft mission study in about two days (I just had two for HabEx – Telescope and Starshade – in four days). If a second option is a variation on the first option (e.g., slightly heavier or more power hungry payload, change the propulsion system from bi-prop to SEP) it can be handled in the study with a third day. We are holding three days for your mission study. Furthermore, if you make small changes outside… text/html 2017-04-06T01:14:12+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://zzz.physics.umn.edu/!ipsig/private/teleconsnotes20170405?rev=1491441252&do=diff 20170405 Telecon Notes Legend: Bold face encodes 'need more information'; italics encodes issues that are (semi)settled in the sense that they are the basis for future discussions. * What fidelity of mission design are we expected to deliver? Two weeks of TeamX is hardly enough to give high fidelity design. Keith: Sufficiently credible for the ICA process to proceed; text/html 2017-04-15T15:41:37+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://zzz.physics.umn.edu/!ipsig/private/teleconsnotes20170412?rev=1492270897&do=diff 20170412 Telecon Notes Legend: Bold face encodes 'need more information'; italics encodes issues that are (semi)settled in the sense that they are the basis for future discussions; Underlined Text are action items. * Requirement on r: * Need to motivate the target. We can't have a fishing expedition. 'Let's get as low as we can' won't work as a justification. There needs to be a well motivated requirement. Raphael says that it would be hard to motivate the level of r based on specific mo… text/html 2017-05-03T16:56:13+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://zzz.physics.umn.edu/!ipsig/private/teleconsnotes20170426?rev=1493830573&do=diff 20170426 Telecon Notes Legend: Bold face encodes 'need more information'; italics encodes issues that are (semi)settled in the sense that they are the basis for future discussions; Underlined Text are action items. * Catch up on Action Items * text/html 2017-05-19T21:16:56+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://zzz.physics.umn.edu/!ipsig/private/teleconsnotes20170503?rev=1495228616&do=diff 20170503 Telecon Notes Legend: Bold face encodes 'need more information'; italics encodes issues that are (semi)settled in the sense that they are the basis for future discussions; Underlined Text are action items. Telecon Notes by Al Kogut (with extra SH edits) text/html 2017-05-24T14:58:23+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://zzz.physics.umn.edu/!ipsig/private/teleconsnotes20170517?rev=1495637903&do=diff 20170517 Telecon Notes Legend: Bold face encodes 'need more information'; italics encodes issues that are (semi)settled in the sense that they are the basis for future discussions; Underlined Text are action items. Attending: Shaul, Julian, Amy, Brendan, Jamie, Al, Lloyd, Charles, Mark (Notes by Julian) text/html 2017-05-25T16:55:32+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://zzz.physics.umn.edu/!ipsig/private/teleconsnotes20170524?rev=1495731332&do=diff Telecon Notes 20170524 Attendance: Shaul, Amy, Jeff, Rafael, Al, Clem, Lloyd Notes by Amy Probe PI telecom: Slides 2-6 (was 70 slides in 2hr – only talking about most relevant topics here) Shaul adds: not expecting final designs or conclusions at AAS Shaul has suggested to NASA that they also consider a 2019 AAS Session Comment: Should have descopes/downscaling options thought out before going in to Team X so we can respond quickly if/when Team X finds our baseline design to be over cost text/html 2017-05-31T23:22:45+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://zzz.physics.umn.edu/!ipsig/private/teleconsnotes20170531?rev=1496272965&do=diff Telecon Notes 20170531 Attendance: Amy, Jeff, Rafael, Al, Clem, Lloyd, Jamie, Charles Notes by Amy Schedule: * What other milestones need to be included in the schedule * Review timelines for TeamX sessions and decision point about Imager-only vs. Imager+Spectrometer. text/html 2017-06-09T01:48:17+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://zzz.physics.umn.edu/!ipsig/private/teleconsnotes20170607?rev=1496972897&do=diff Telecon Notes 20170607 Attendance: Jamie, Amy, Jeff, Brendan, Julian, Al Notes by Amy Update from Brendan on Systematics plan (see “Systematics WG plan slides”) Do we know what CORE did? Brendan doesn't. Brendan interested in what EPIC-IM did, but Jamie remarks that its becoming increasingly outdated, and we should probably look to more recent work by Planck and suborbital. What do we do at low-l to improve over Planck? A lot is in calibration. Julian (in real time) uploads some slides (… text/html 2017-06-19T11:14:19+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://zzz.physics.umn.edu/!ipsig/private/teleconsnotes20170614?rev=1497870859&do=diff Telecon Notes 20170614 Attendance: Julian, Lloyd, Raphael, Al, Amy, Kris Gorski (for his presentation only) Notes by Amy Kris Gorski on Survey strategy (no slides) EPIC scan strategy has large bore angle / good polarization scan angles / quickly covers the sky. But it required large sun shields and reduced the power per area from the solar arrays. text/html 2017-06-29T18:03:01+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://zzz.physics.umn.edu/!ipsig/private/teleconsnotes20170621?rev=1498759381&do=diff Telecon Notes 20170621 Attendance: Shaul, Amy, Al, Bill, Julian, Raphael, Clem, Jeff Notes by: Shaul Workshops Recap from a week or two ago - what has been discussed and what are the final decisions? Overall sentiment is for two workshops. An earlier one, revolving around Foregrounds and perhaps systematics, and a later one focusing on science and the complementarity between space and ground. text/html 2017-06-28T21:36:24+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://zzz.physics.umn.edu/!ipsig/private/teleconsnotes20170628?rev=1498685784&do=diff Telecon Notes 20170628 Attendance: Shaul,Amy, Brendan, Al, Roger, Bill Notes by: Brendan Agenda: * Update on management of WG and mailing lists (Shaul) * UMN physics listserv is retiring, so future working group mailing lists will be done through Google Groups: Shaul has already done this for extragalactic, data challenge, and imager. Some bugs have been found. Shaul can set this up for other WGs if needed. text/html 2017-07-10T17:53:42+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://zzz.physics.umn.edu/!ipsig/private/teleconsnotes20170707?rev=1499709222&do=diff Telecon Notes 20170705 Attendance: Borrill, Hanany, Lawrence, Knox, Kogut, Crill Notes by: Knox Action Items * Workshops * Raphael/Shaul to finalize Foreground Workshop dates, location, program * Shaul to relay discussion of science workshop to Devlin/Jones. Converge on dates, location. text/html 2017-07-19T18:02:52+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://zzz.physics.umn.edu/!ipsig/private/teleconsnotes20170712?rev=1500487372&do=diff Telecon Notes 20170712 Attendance: Brendan, Raphael, Amy, Al, Shaul, Julian Notes by: Raphael Actions * Finalize dates + time for Foregrounds workshop (Raphael) * Communicate with Nobu, Mark/Bill re science workshop (Shaul) Workshops * Foregrounds text/html 2017-07-26T19:21:04+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://zzz.physics.umn.edu/!ipsig/private/teleconsnotes20170719?rev=1501096864&do=diff Telecon Notes 20170719 Attendance: Notes by: Agenda * Workshops updates * Foregrounds (Raphael? may not be able to attend telecon) * Science+Complementarity (Mark, Bill, Shaul) * Overlap between Foregrounds and Galactic Science WG (Dave Chuss, Laura Fissel; see draft letter below)$150M for launch, operations, management. The amount available for all of this, but budget left for the instrument itself could be less than $ text/html 2017-07-26T21:38:48+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://zzz.physics.umn.edu/!ipsig/private/teleconsnotes20170726?rev=1501105128&do=diff Telecon Notes 20170726 Attendance: Shaul, Al, Amy, Jamie, Brendan, Charles Notes by: Jamie Agenda * Workshops (Shaul, Raphael) * Update from Spectrometer group (Al) * Update from the Systematics WG (Brendan) * Update on Data Challenge (Lloyd) text/html 2017-08-02T21:12:32+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://zzz.physics.umn.edu/!ipsig/private/teleconsnotes20170802?rev=1501708352&do=diff Telecon Notes 20170802 Attendance: Al, Julian, Jamie, Jeff, Clem, Charles Notes by: Jamie Agenda * Workshops - Foregrounds (get update from Raphael) - Science + Complementarity (Shaul waiting for reply from Carlstrom; Clem said he would raise the question about a common workshop during an S4 SOC telecon on Monday. Perhaps Clem can report on the discussion. SH also waiting for response from SOC regarding a brief Probe presentation at Harvard.) text/html 2017-08-16T19:49:12+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://zzz.physics.umn.edu/!ipsig/private/teleconsnotes20170809?rev=1502912952&do=diff Telecon Notes 20170809 Attendance: Amy, Lloyd, Al, Dave, Clem, Shaul, Jeff, Charles Notes by: Pryke Agenda * Workshops (Shaul, Raphael) * TeamI+X sessions at JPL (Shaul) * TeamI: Dec. 19 - Dec. 21, 2017 * TeamI: March 13 - March 15, 2018 text/html 2017-09-06T01:58:46+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://zzz.physics.umn.edu/!ipsig/private/teleconsnotes20170816?rev=1504663126&do=diff Telecon Notes 20170809 Attendance: Jamie, Amy, Shaul, Lloyd Notes by: Shaul Agenda * Short updates: [Rita's slide]; Name (PICO?); JPL visit (Wed. Aug. 30); Probe + S4 Workshops * [Science Traceability Matrix] (Amy) + tasks to WG (Shaul, all) * [Probe Strategy] (Shaul, all) * need now; a mission should fly asap regardless of r results from sub-orbital$1 B mission can do spectacular CMB (or whatever) science. We don't have to agonize about when. If a Probe line is instituted, we'… text/html 2017-08-23T21:02:07+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://zzz.physics.umn.edu/!ipsig/private/teleconsnotes20170823?rev=1503522127&do=diff 2017 August 23 Attendance: Charles, Al, Amy Notes by Amy Topic: feedback on [Shaul's draft slides for S4 meeting] Slides 5,6: figures have two sets of frequency axis labels that don’t line up Slide 13: Misspelled Kogut as Kogus Slide 13: Didn’t capitalize Flauger Charles: Slide 6 plot doesn’t really show ground based atmospheric lines, including near foreground minimum. Perhaps add another figure showing atmospheric transmission vs frequency. text/html 2017-09-06T01:26:58+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://zzz.physics.umn.edu/!ipsig/private/teleconsnotes20170830?rev=1504661218&do=diff Telecon Notes 20170809 Attendance: Al, Shaul, Amy, Brendan, Jamie, Lloyd Notes by: Shaul Agenda * Report from S4 meeting + planning for the decadal * [SH Presentation in parallel session] * [SH Presentation in plenary summary session] * [JC 'preparation for the decadal'] Notes * SH reports on S4 Session. Describes S4 effort to enlist contributors to various complementary S4 topics. One of the papers would be highlight the complementarity with Space. text/html 2017-09-06T21:20:07+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://zzz.physics.umn.edu/!ipsig/private/teleconsnotes20170906?rev=1504732807&do=diff Telecon Notes 20170906 Attendance: Notes by: Agenda * Brief Updates * Time for telecons * Foreground Workshop (Raphael) * PICO Name <http://www.picoexperiment.com/> * [Where we are with the Probe Study (review)] + feedback from the EC: * anything else we should do * anything we should do different text/html 2017-09-13T20:59:02+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://zzz.physics.umn.edu/!ipsig/private/teleconsnotes20170913?rev=1505336342&do=diff Telecon Notes 20170913 Attendance: Julian, Shaul, Jens, Al, Colin, Lloyd, Amy Notes by: Jamie Agenda * Spectrometer * [Volume fit, open Dragone] * [Spectrometer white paper] * [Colin Hill -- Spectrometer science] Notes - First presentation shows the spectrometer would fit in terms of volume - would spectrometer be any smaller/simpler if it just did absolute spectrum science? text/html 2017-09-27T19:47:06+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://zzz.physics.umn.edu/!ipsig/private/teleconsnotes20170920?rev=1506541626&do=diff Telecon Notes 20170920 Attendance: Shaul, Raphael, Brendan, Lloyd, Amy, Julian, +? Notes by: Lloyd Agenda * Workshops (Raphael, Shaul) * Status of Spectrometer decision (Al, Amy) * Update from the Systematics WG (Brendan) * Update from data challenge (Lloyd, Julian) text/html 2017-09-27T20:03:54+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://zzz.physics.umn.edu/!ipsig/private/teleconsnotes20170927?rev=1506542634&do=diff Telecon Notes 20170927 Attendance: Shaul, Amy, Jamie, Nick, Al, Notes by: Agenda * Workshops (Raphael, Shaul) * Foregrounds: 24 registrants to date (6 days); No major fallout from date change; working on program; PLEASE ADVERTISE. * Science + S4: updates from Lloyd, Julian. text/html 2017-10-09T21:04:13+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://zzz.physics.umn.edu/!ipsig/private/teleconsnotes20171004?rev=1507583053&do=diff Telecon Notes 20171004 Attendance: Shaul, Amy, Julian, Al, Raphael, Bill, Charles, Lloyd Notes by: Shaul Agenda * Initial Spectrometer/Imager trade-off discussion (Shaul, Amy) [budget for discussion] * [Fundamental Physics WG update] (Raphael) Notes * Shaul reviews schedule for decision$60-$$38M for the spectrometer, we have $ text/html 2017-10-11T21:50:05+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://zzz.physics.umn.edu/!ipsig/private/teleconsnotes20171011?rev=1507758605&do=diff Telecon Notes 20171011 Attendance: Shaul, Dave Chuss, Amy, Laura Fissel, Al, Julian, Lloyd, Nick Battaglia, Charles, Jamie Notes by: Karl Young (UMN) Agenda * [budget for discussion] * [Slides from Imager Group ] * [Slides from the Extragalactic Group] * [Slides from Galactic Group] * [Fundamental Physics WG update] (Raphael) Notes Budget update (Amy) * Line 7, E,F phase text/html 2017-10-24T19:50:23+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://zzz.physics.umn.edu/!ipsig/private/teleconsnotes20171018?rev=1508874623&do=diff Telecon Notes 20171018 Attendance: Shaul, Dave Chuss, Amy, Julian, Lloyd, Nick Battaglia, Charles, Brendon Notes by: Karl (UMN) Agenda * periodic update comments * Spectrometer / Imager trade-off discussion. Today's focus is receiving updates from the text/html 2017-10-25T23:05:57+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://zzz.physics.umn.edu/!ipsig/private/teleconsnotes20171025?rev=1508972757&do=diff Telecon Notes 20171025 Attendance: Shaul, Amy, Charles, ?? Notes by: Karl Young, UMN Agenda * Presentations at AAS, SPIE, APS * Fundamental Physics WG update (Raphael) * [Imager Update (Shaul)] Notes Presentations (finalized = regular font; proposed = italics text/html 2017-11-01T21:11:57+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://zzz.physics.umn.edu/!ipsig/private/teleconsnotes20171101?rev=1509570717&do=diff Telecon Notes 20171101 Attendance: Raphael, Amy, Shaul, Al, Eric, Brendon, Nick, Charles, Lloyd, Jamie Notes by: Karl Agenda * Brief: authorship policy on papers/abstracts * [Update from Fundamental Physics Group (Raphael)] * [Spectrometer/Imager discussion] Notes Authorship policy on papers/abstracts * Shaul: proposal, for each abstract poll EC and relevant WGs. People then ask to be included. text/html 2017-11-08T22:09:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://zzz.physics.umn.edu/!ipsig/private/teleconsnotes20171108?rev=1510178961&do=diff Telecon Notes 20171108 Attendance: Al, Shaul, Julian, Lloyd, Raphael Notes by: Karl Agenda * Brief Update: Foreground Workshop - Raphael * Status of spectrometer decision; Please be prepared to opine on whether we should keep a spectrometer on the spacecraft at the possible expense of a reduction in the Imager aperture and sensitivity text/html 2017-11-22T20:45:23+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://zzz.physics.umn.edu/!ipsig/private/teleconsnotes20171115?rev=1511383523&do=diff Telecon Notes 20171115 Attendance: Raphael, Amy, Shaul, Al, Lloyd, Julian, Jim, Dave, Charles Notes by: Karl Agenda * Planning for PICO and Complementarity with Ground Workshop in the spring (Shaul) Notes Planning for PICO and Complementarity with Ground Workshop in the spring (Shaul) text/html 2017-11-22T20:59:02+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://zzz.physics.umn.edu/!ipsig/private/teleconsnotes20171122?rev=1511384342&do=diff Telecon Notes 20171122 Attendance: Notes by: Agenda * Workshop updates * Foregrounds: see instructions to WG leaders below * Science * Length: ~2 days * Weeks: April 23, April 30, May 7, (May 21) * Location: Minneapolis; Philadelphia text/html 2017-12-13T20:56:04+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://zzz.physics.umn.edu/!ipsig/private/teleconsnotes20171213?rev=1513198564&do=diff Telecon Notes 20171213 Attendance: Notes by: Agenda: * Workshops * Summary of Foregrounds Workshop + keeping the momentum? * Science + Complementarity, dates (April 30?, May 7?), location (Minneapolis), * Preparations for TeamX next week text/html 2018-01-03T20:50:54+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://zzz.physics.umn.edu/!ipsig/private/teleconsnotes20180103?rev=1515012654&do=diff Telecon Notes 20180103 Attendance: Notes by: Agenda: * TeamX: this one is TeamX-Instrument. There is a second one in March, and also a 'Mission' one in March. * Our goals * are there any yet unidentified challenges? * give initial cost estimate? Our framework was ~$175M text/html 2018-01-17T21:55:45+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://zzz.physics.umn.edu/!ipsig/private/teleconsnotes20180117?rev=1516226145&do=diff Telecon Notes 20180103 Attendance: Al, Amy, Lloyd, Raphael, Charles Notes by: Karl Agenda: * TeamX, AAS, Moriond, APS, Periodic Update (Amy, Shaul) * Focus and priorities for the next few months * Foregrounds * Systematics * May Workshop text/html 2018-02-07T22:00:13+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://zzz.physics.umn.edu/!ipsig/private/teleconsnotes20180207?rev=1518040813&do=diff Telecon Notes 20180207 Attendance: Lloyd, Julian, Amy, Shaul, Dan, Nick, Dave, Hannes Notes by: Karl Agenda: * May Workshop * [google sheet with some program suggestions] Notes May workshop: * program sheet cleaned up * added: neutrinos, primordial mag fields (place holder for additional fundamental physics) text/html 2018-02-14T22:01:08+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://zzz.physics.umn.edu/!ipsig/private/teleconsnotes20180214?rev=1518645668&do=diff Telecon Notes 20180214 Attendance: Lloyd, Julian, Amy, Shaul, Nick, Charles, Dan, Dave Notes by: Karl Agenda: * May Workshop * [google sheet with some program suggestions] * Notes May Workshop * travel funds for invitees of $400 in US, $800 from other continents. * Fundamental physics. Lloyd: Converged? Dan: All fine with speakers. Francis Yan on panel. Lloyd: Can invite large panel. So if some can't come panelists can move to presentations. text/html 2018-02-21T21:28:59+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://zzz.physics.umn.edu/!ipsig/private/teleconsnotes20180221?rev=1519248539&do=diff Telecon Notes February 21, 2018 Attendance: Laura, Nick, Dan, Lloyd, Shaul Notes by: Karl Agenda: * May Workshop * [google sheet with some program suggestions] * [Science Team Costs] * Decadal Products * Engineering documents * TeamX slides vs something else (“logistically complicated I&T not explored in this study text/html 2018-02-28T21:59:10+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://zzz.physics.umn.edu/!ipsig/private/teleconsnotes20180228?rev=1519855150&do=diff Telecon Notes February 28, 2018 Attendance: Shaul, Charles, Nick, Al, Lloyd, Clem, Hannes, Dan Notes by: Karl Agenda: * May Workshop * [ Program google] * [Science Team Costs] * Decadal Products * Engineering documents * TeamX slides vs something else (“logistically complicated I&T not explored in this study$80-85 M. $ text/html 2018-03-15T02:00:29+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://zzz.physics.umn.edu/!ipsig/private/teleconsnotes20180314?rev=1521079229&do=diff Telecon Notes March 14, 2018 Attendance: Shaul, Charles, Julian, Lloyd, Amy, Dave Notes by: Karl Agenda: * May Workshop (all); Program google sheet * [Conference, workshop, collaboration meeting]; * The STDT Example * S4 Decadal Prep: Update from Michigan; does that affect the workshop (Lloyd? , Julian?) * TeamX Sessions: next two weeks text/html 2018-04-11T14:03:33+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://zzz.physics.umn.edu/!ipsig/private/teleconsnotes20180404?rev=1523455413&do=diff Telecon Notes April 4, 2018 Attendance: Al, Shaul, Lloyd, Amy, Dave, Notes by: Karl Agenda: * May Workshop * SPIE and future Papers * [Sutin Abstract] * [Young Abstract] * TeamX Sessions * TeamX-I, -M * Review of TeamX slides * Setting 'Requirements' (vs. Best Case) * text/html 2018-04-11T20:37:49+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://zzz.physics.umn.edu/!ipsig/private/teleconsnotes20180411?rev=1523479069&do=diff Telecon Notes April 11, 2018 Attendance: Nick, Dan, Amy, Hannes, Shaul, Dave Notes by: Karl Agenda: * Status of TeamX outcomes (Amy) * Update on requirements (Shaul, Dan, Raphael, ...) * Workshop * discussion sessions: what are the questions we want addressed during the discussion? text/html 2018-04-25T17:41:13+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://zzz.physics.umn.edu/!ipsig/private/teleconsnotes20180418?rev=1524678073&do=diff Telecon Notes April 18, 2018 Attendance: Shaul, Dan, Bill, Charles, Nick, Amy Notes by: Karl Agenda * Github Repo * [Report outline]; Our Proposal was arranged by science deliverables; and so is the S4 science book. * [Interesting Figure from Alex Van Engelen] Notes * Github Repo * * Report outline, 50 page limit text/html 2018-04-25T20:55:49+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://zzz.physics.umn.edu/!ipsig/private/teleconsnotes20180425?rev=1524689749&do=diff Telecon Notes April 25, 2018 Attendance: Bill, Shaul, Dave, Dan, Lloyd, Charles, Hannes Notes by: Karl Agenda * Report from Steering Committee * consistency with CORE/LB * Complementarity with ground * Brief update on Cost + adjustments to overall map depth text/html 2018-05-09T20:42:19+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://zzz.physics.umn.edu/!ipsig/private/teleconsnotes20180509?rev=1525898539&do=diff Telecon Notes May 9, 2018 Attendance: Amy, Shaul, Al Notes by: Karl Agenda * Report from workshop + [Action Items] * Other items for the near future * Final imager configuration and sensitivity, final cryogenic assessment still pending * Requirements vs best case estimates text/html 2018-05-16T20:26:34+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://zzz.physics.umn.edu/!ipsig/private/teleconsnotes20180516?rev=1526502394&do=diff Telecon Notes May 16, 2018 Attendance: Shaul, Hannes, Amy, Al, Notes by: Karl Agenda * AAS2019 (Shaul) * TeamX slides (Amy) * [Noise/Bands Figure] * Noise Requirements vs Current Best Estimate (CBE) * Proposal: Req = CBE*rt(2)/0.9, independent of frequency text/html 2018-05-23T22:17:28+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://zzz.physics.umn.edu/!ipsig/private/teleconsnotes20180523?rev=1527113848&do=diff Telecon Notes May 23, 2018 Attendance: Notes by: qi Agenda * AAS2019 (Shaul) * [Current Report Draft] * [Current Version of sensitivity/band figure] Attending: Dave, Amy, Shaul Notes 1.AAS meeting: Shaul talked with a vice president of AAS, clarified that AAS does not approve special session for mission in planing, only approves combined session. Initiative for special session dropped. text/html 2018-06-27T19:13:17+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://zzz.physics.umn.edu/!ipsig/private/teleconsnotes20180620?rev=1530126797&do=diff Telecon Notes June 20, 2018 Attendance: Shaul, Al, Jamie, Bill J. Notes by: Shaul Agenda * Review of TeamX slides * Instrument: * summary * systems * cost * optics * Mechanical/Configuration * Focal Planes and Detectors text/html 2018-06-29T18:42:36+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://zzz.physics.umn.edu/!ipsig/private/teleconsnotes20180627?rev=1530297756&do=diff Telecon Notes June 27, 2018 Attendance: SH, Jamie, Jacques, Charles, Amy, Al Notes by: Agenda * Signals and Foregrounds Figure (Jacques, Josquin) * [Option 1] * [Option 2] * Review of TeamX slides (Al, Jamie, Bill, Shaul) * Status of thermal model (Amy)$80,874. Is this inconsistent with slide 31 $$6.1M for I&T at 50% confidence (slides 31 & 32) but gives no detail. Is this a wrap? Is the percentage for I&T in family with previous cryogenic missions? The mission report say… text/html 2018-07-17T19:49:37+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://zzz.physics.umn.edu/!ipsig/private/teleconsnotes20180711?rev=1531856977&do=diff Telecon Notes July 11, 2018 Attendance: Amy, Dave, Nick, Dan, Bill, Hannes Notes by: Agenda * [Review of I+T Plan] (Bill) * TeamX Comments (see last telecon notes) * Report Status, Schedule + External Advisory Board * Sept. 1 First draft (first round of text + key figures) * text/html 2018-07-18T19:46:54+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://zzz.physics.umn.edu/!ipsig/private/teleconsnotes20180718?rev=1531943214&do=diff Telecon Notes July 18, 2018 Attendance: Notes by: Agenda * Posting of SPIE papers on astro-ph * [Sutin et al submitted] * [Young et al in prep] * [AXIS Paper] * Coordination of report with JPL * Reminder of schedule (below) * Report is [currently on GitHub], [Here is the current pdf] * Status of funding @JPL until the end of the fiscal year (Amy) + how do the engineering sections + JPL reviews coordinate with the rest of the schedule text/html 2018-07-25T20:00:15+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://zzz.physics.umn.edu/!ipsig/private/teleconsnotes20180725?rev=1532548815&do=diff Telecon Notes July 25, 2018 Attendance: Notes by: Agenda * Report and White Paper * [PICO Outline of Report] * [Decadal White Papers Instructions] * Clarification of S4 e-mail (Below) - Lloyd * Coordination Notes Preparation of the Decadal Survey Report Preparation of the Decadal Survey Report is underway with working groups leading various chapters/sections as listed below. If you would like to help draft parts of the report, please contact the relevant section leads l… text/html 2018-08-07T22:32:08+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://zzz.physics.umn.edu/!ipsig/private/teleconsnotes20180801?rev=1533681128&do=diff Telecon Notes Aug. 1, 2018 Attendance: Amy, Shaul, Nick, Charles, Dave, Dan, Raphael Notes by: Agenda * Decadal White Papers - Brief Update (Shaul) * [Requirements and Current Best Estimates] - Brief Update (Shaul) * CBE based on latest, essentially final thermal model results * Required noise level is [CBE x rt(2)] for individual bolometer NET text/html 2018-08-07T22:33:56+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://zzz.physics.umn.edu/!ipsig/private/teleconsnotes20180808?rev=1533681236&do=diff Telecon Notes Aug. 8, 2018 Attendance: Notes by: Agenda * Review of [Draft Report] * Link to report schedule * Last week's decision: text for all sections in place by Aug. 22, so that Raphael and Dan can complete the introduction by Aug. 31. * GitHub repo for Report (for access, send GitHub user name to Shaul) * text/html 2018-08-22T19:23:56+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://zzz.physics.umn.edu/!ipsig/private/teleconsnotes20180815?rev=1534965836&do=diff Telecon Notes Aug. 15, 2018 Attendance: Dave, Al, Raphael, Nick, Colin, Bill, Charles Notes by: Charles Agenda * Review of [Draft Report] * Report schedule is here * Last week's decision: text for all sections in place by Aug. 22, so that Raphael and Dan can complete the introduction by Aug. 31. text/html 2018-08-23T01:21:09+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://zzz.physics.umn.edu/!ipsig/private/teleconsnotes20180822?rev=1534987269&do=diff Telecon Notes Aug. 22, 2018 Attendance: Notes by: Charles Agenda * Review of [Draft Report] * Report schedule is here * Last week's decision: text for all sections in place by Aug. 22, so that Raphael and Dan can complete the introduction by Aug. 31. * text/html 2018-08-28T13:58:19+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://zzz.physics.umn.edu/!ipsig/private/teleconsnotes20180829?rev=1535464699&do=diff Telecon Notes Aug. 29, 2018 Attendance: Notes by: Charles Agenda * Review of [Draft Report] * Report schedule is here * GitHub repo for Report (for push access, send GitHub user name to Shaul; everyone can pull) * [Review action items from last week] * [Discussion of CAA Findings] * STM (exists) * Descopes * covered last week * (lowest frequency foreground mitigation doable with C-BASS? NextBass?) text/html 2018-09-12T16:50:10+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://zzz.physics.umn.edu/!ipsig/private/teleconsnotes20180905?rev=1536771010&do=diff Telecon Notes Sept. 5, 2018 Attendance: Notes by: Shaul Agenda * Review of [Draft Report] and next steps * [Review action items from last week] * Report schedule is here * GitHub repo for Report (for push access, send GitHub user name to Shaul; everyone can pull) * S4 Meeting Complementarity with balloons and space * Chart the space landscape: Active - LiteBIRD, PICO, Bharat; Inactive - PIXIE, CORE text/html 2018-09-12T21:18:10+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://zzz.physics.umn.edu/!ipsig/private/teleconsnotes20180912?rev=1536787090&do=diff Telecon Notes Sept. 12, 2018 Attendance: Shaul H, Jim Bartlett, Dan Green, Amy T., Alex van Engleen, Nick B., Rafael F., Colin Hill Notes by: Karl Young Agenda * Review of [Draft Report] and next steps * Report schedule is here * GitHub repo for Report (for push access, send GitHub user name to Shaul; everyone can pull) * Current List of action items below text/html 2018-09-26T18:53:42+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://zzz.physics.umn.edu/!ipsig/private/teleconsnotes20180919?rev=1537988022&do=diff Telecon Notes Sept. 19, 2018 Attendance: Clem Pryke, Amy, Shaul, Dan Green, Dave Chuss, Colin Hill, Jim B., Marcel S., Nick B., Tim P., Charles L., Alex E. Notes by: Karl Young Agenda * Update on Signal Separation (aka - foregrounds) - Clem text/html 2018-09-26T21:03:10+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://zzz.physics.umn.edu/!ipsig/private/teleconsnotes20180926?rev=1537995790&do=diff Telecon Notes Sept. 26, 2018 Attendance: Shaul, Nick B, Tim P, Dan G, Amy T., Charles Notes by: Karl Young Agenda * Cover Art - Volunteer(s)? * Policy for report Authors/Endorsers? * Final TeamX - 2nd week of October * Status of report text/html 2018-10-03T21:02:46+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://zzz.physics.umn.edu/!ipsig/private/teleconsnotes20181003?rev=1538600566&do=diff Telecon Notes Oct. 03, 2018 Attendance: Shaul, Rafael F., Charles L., Tim P., Marcel, Colin Notes by: Karl Young Agenda * External Reviewers * [last decadal list] * [Status with Reviewers] * [Status of Report] * [Marcel's fnl] Notes External Reviewers * PDF has people involved in 2010 decadal survey. Feel free to peruse for possible reviewer names. text/html 2018-10-09T14:58:41+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://zzz.physics.umn.edu/!ipsig/private/teleconsnotes20181009?rev=1539097121&do=diff Steering Committee Telecon Oct. 09, 2018 * [Slides - pdf], * [Status of Report] * [External Reviewers] * Science Workshop text/html 2018-10-10T21:02:22+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://zzz.physics.umn.edu/!ipsig/private/teleconsnotes20181010?rev=1539205342&do=diff Telecon Notes Oct. 10, 2018 Attendance: Jacques, Alex, Colin H., Shaul, Amy T., Tim P., Dan G., Nick B. Notes by: Karl Young Agenda * JPL Final TeamX * SH gives a talk in Tenerife next week - may need help with any new slides * Report Schedule: text/html 2018-10-17T20:56:04+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://zzz.physics.umn.edu/!ipsig/private/teleconsnotes20181017?rev=1539809764&do=diff Telecon Notes Oct. 17, 2018 Attendance: Amy Trangsrud, Tim Pearson, Marcel Schmittfull, Charles L., Al K., Nick B., Jim, Dan Green Notes by: Karl Young Agenda * Including any S4 Forecasts? (default = no) * [Including figure showing comprehensiveness of science?] * [Update on status of report + action items] * Reminder of Schedule: essentially final version to be distributed to ~15 external reviewers by Nov. 15. $1 billion mission. For example need to discuss r. BICEP/KECK … text/html 2018-10-24T21:06:42+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://zzz.physics.umn.edu/!ipsig/private/teleconsnotes20181024?rev=1540415202&do=diff Telecon Notes Oct. 24, 2018 Attendance: Nick B., Rafael F., Amy T., Alex v., Colin H., Tim P., Charles L., Jim B. Notes by: Karl Young Agenda * Schedule: 50 pg draft complete by next telecon; distribute to reviewers by Nov. 1 * [Current Version of Report] * PICO Mission Website for additional report related documents text/html 2018-10-31T21:00:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://zzz.physics.umn.edu/!ipsig/private/teleconsnotes20181031?rev=1541019621&do=diff Telecon Notes Oct. 31, 2018 Attendance: Nick B., Colin H., Charles L., Shaul, Raphael F., Jim B. Notes by: Karl Young Agenda * Status of report * JPL (Instrument) * UMN (Science) * new landscape figure * Cluster science? * text/html 2018-11-07T21:58:49+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://zzz.physics.umn.edu/!ipsig/private/teleconsnotes20181107?rev=1541627929&do=diff Telecon Notes Nov. 7, 2018 Attendance: Shaul, Nick B., Amy T., Colin H., Jacques Notes by: Karl Young Agenda * Work toward Final Report * Schedule (see also main wiki page) * [new deadline: Dec. 10] * Authors + Endorsers: send message now with a deadline? text/html 2018-11-14T20:54:31+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://zzz.physics.umn.edu/!ipsig/private/teleconsnotes20181114?rev=1542228871&do=diff Telecon Notes Nov. 14, 2018 Attendance: Notes by: Karl Young Agenda * Updates about report from Telecon * cover page (art), author page, disclaimer page, references, are not part of the 50 page report * Including hyperlinks to outside references is OK, even encouraged, but report should be self-standing. text/html 2018-11-21T22:03:59+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://zzz.physics.umn.edu/!ipsig/private/teleconsnotes20181121?rev=1542837839&do=diff Telecon Notes Nov. 21, 2018 Attendance: Shaul, Jim B., Alex V.E., Nick B., Tim P., Amy T., Colin H., Jacques, Raphael Notes by: Karl Agenda * Reviews, Comments, Editing of Latex in the repo, deadlines * Most reviews are in. Majority of comments are along the lines of: text/html 2018-11-28T22:03:54+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://zzz.physics.umn.edu/!ipsig/private/teleconsnotes20181128?rev=1543442634&do=diff Telecon Notes Nov. 28, 2018 Attendance: Shaul H., Nick B., Charles L., Tim P., Jamie B., Raphael F., Jacques D., Alex vE., Amy T., Jim B. Notes by: Karl Agenda * Schedule + Repo * Submission deadline moved to January 14 * Repo inactive starting tomorrow am; send revisions by e-mail $1B right for Planck? CL: I usually quote $$ get $ text/html 2018-12-05T22:04:40+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://zzz.physics.umn.edu/!ipsig/private/teleconsnotes20181205?rev=1544047480&do=diff Telecon Notes Dec. 5, 2018 Attendance: Amy, Nick B., Marcel S., Raphael F., Alex vE, Colin H., Dan G. Notes by: Karl Agenda * Report Mechanics * Current version posted on main wiki * Public repository: alive and kicking. Solution for updates found. text/html 2018-12-20T21:54:38+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://zzz.physics.umn.edu/!ipsig/private/teleconsnotes20181219?rev=1545342878&do=diff Telecon Notes Dec. 19, 2018 Attendance: Tim P., Jamie B., Jacques D., Amy T., Raphael F., Nick B., Bill J., Charles L. Notes by: Karl Agenda * Schedule: Report due on January 14. * Report Mechanics * Re-release of engineering document scheduled for tomorrow$1B when SO is $ text/html 2019-01-02T21:54:36+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://zzz.physics.umn.edu/!ipsig/private/teleconsnotes20190102?rev=1546466076&do=diff Telecon Notes January 2, 2019 Attendance: Amy T., Shaul H., Charles L., Jim B., Tim P., Nick B., Dave C., Marcel S., Notes by: Karl Agenda * Report schedule and status: * Jan. 14 is most recent deadline * But government shutdown moves the deadline: text/html 2019-01-09T21:52:45+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://zzz.physics.umn.edu/!ipsig/private/teleconsnotes20190109?rev=1547070765&do=diff Telecon Notes January 9, 2019 Attendance: Shaul H., Marcel S., Alex vE., Amy T., Tim P., Jacques D., Nick B., Dan G., Charles L. (Many people at AAS) Notes by: Karl Agenda * Additional Telecon on Friday at 3 pm Central Time = 4 pm Eastern; 1 pm Pacific. text/html 2019-01-16T21:35:28+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://zzz.physics.umn.edu/!ipsig/private/teleconsnotes20190116?rev=1547674528&do=diff Telecon Notes January 16, 2019 Attendance: Dave C., Shaul H., Charles L., Colin H., Tim P. Notes by: Karl Agenda * Decadal Panel nominations due by January 22 * Report [latest version] * outstanding item * SH: implement comments from amy, Charles, finish new Section 2.4 (see next), small modification in Fnl, add sentences in ES for testing LCDM (+ blue sky?), finish ES sentences regarding 'why now' text/html 2019-01-30T21:56:55+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://zzz.physics.umn.edu/!ipsig/private/teleconsnotes20190130?rev=1548885415&do=diff Telecon Notes January 30, 2019 Attendance: Shaul H., Charles L., Amy T., Colin H., Tim P., Nick B., Al K., Bill J., Alex V., Jacques D., Dan G. Notes by: Karl Agenda * Schedules: * NASA Submission: Monday, March 4 * PCAT schedule: to be worked out text/html 2019-02-06T22:26:41+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://zzz.physics.umn.edu/!ipsig/private/teleconsnotes20190206?rev=1549492001&do=diff Telecon Notes Feb. 6, 2019 Attendance: Amy T., Shaul H., Tim P., Jacques D., Alex vE., Dan G. Notes by: Karl Agenda * [brief update on report/astro-ph posting] * Good progress. ~one week to finish * [Figure from Eleonora]; [FOM Data] * Talk + posters at USRA conference - Authorship? * First Author + “PICO Collaboration$1B gets X amount of science while $ text/html 2019-02-13T21:58:47+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://zzz.physics.umn.edu/!ipsig/private/teleconsnotes20190213?rev=1550095127&do=diff Telecon Notes Feb. 13, 2019 Attendance: Shaul H., Raphael F., Amy T., Tim P., Alex vE., Charles L. Notes by: Karl Agenda * [Status of report] * schedule: * Post to astroph by ~Tues 2/26; leaves 10 days for references to be inserted into decadal science white papers. text/html 2019-02-20T21:46:54+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://zzz.physics.umn.edu/!ipsig/private/teleconsnotes20190220?rev=1550699214&do=diff Telecon Notes Feb. 20, 2019 Attendance: Amy T., Shaul H., Charles L., Tim P., Alex VE., Raphael F., Notes by: Karl Agenda * [Status of report] * schedule: * Post to astro-ph by Tues. 2/26; leaves 10 days for references to be inserted into decadal science white papers. text/html 2019-02-27T21:43:19+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://zzz.physics.umn.edu/!ipsig/private/teleconsnotes20190227?rev=1551303799&do=diff Telecon Notes Feb. 27, 2019 Attendance: Shaul H., Jim B., Tim P., Nick B., Charles L. Notes by: Karl Agenda * Wrap Up [Version as of 2:30 pm today] * Schedule * astro-ph * NASA submission * Last week's cleanup * [New Parameter Figure ] * Next Steps * PCAT * Decadal Science White Papers / what about a CMB white paper? text/html 2019-05-29T20:51:54+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://zzz.physics.umn.edu/!ipsig/private/teleconsnotes20190529?rev=1559163114&do=diff Telecon Notes May. 29, 2019 Attendance: Shaul, Amy, Dave C., Al K., Charles L., Colin H., Nick B., Jamie B., Jacques D. Notes by: Karl Agenda * Evolution since we submitted the PICO Report also on the arXiv. * PCAT + ICE * Combined Probe publications * $1 billion and any non-US $$ text/html 2019-06-19T20:49:12+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://zzz.physics.umn.edu/!ipsig/private/teleconsnotes20190619?rev=1560977352&do=diff Telecon Notes June 19, 2019 Attendance: Al K., Shaul H., Bill Jones, Jacques D.,Colin H. Notes by: Karl Agenda * [APC Instructions + Allocations] * PICO Report Link * [Current Cover Page ] * authors + endorsers * Executive Summary: * 1 page. Concentrate on SOs + why PICO, why now * New / Modify Figures? text/html 2019-06-26T20:54:41+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://zzz.physics.umn.edu/!ipsig/private/teleconsnotes20190626?rev=1561582481&do=diff Telecon Notes June 26, 2019 Attendance: Shaul H., Colin Hill, Alex van Engelen, Raphael Flauger, Notes by: Karl Agenda * Status of APC paper [Current Version of APC paper] * news from Decadal about Probe Reports. Should not assume that Panel will read the Probe reports. (can't even reference the report text/html 2019-07-03T19:46:09+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://zzz.physics.umn.edu/!ipsig/private/teleconsnotes20190703?rev=1562183169&do=diff Telecon Notes July 03, 2019 Attendance: Shaul H., Colin Hill, Alex van Engelen, Raphael Flauger, Notes by: Karl Agenda * Status of APC paper [Current Version of APC paper] * What's needed: * Inflation Figure * Technical pages * PLEASE READ AND COMMENT * Accuracy (science and claims) text/html 2019-07-09T20:38:16+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://zzz.physics.umn.edu/!ipsig/private/teleconsnotes20190709?rev=1562704696&do=diff Telecon Notes July 9, 2019 Attendance: Notes by: Agenda: * APC Paper (see main wiki for the latest edition) * 1/f? text/html 2019-12-03T20:23:57+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://zzz.physics.umn.edu/!ipsig/private/teleconsnotes20191127?rev=1575404637&do=diff Telecon Notes Nov. 27, 2019 Attendance: Notes by: Agenda: * Recap on status * PICO Report (website); Report on astro-ph * [Probes Cost Assessment Team (PCAT) Report]; * Probes binned into 3 cateogries:'likely' (1); 'possible' (5); 'unlikely'(3); * PICO is 'possible' (All PICO's cost assessments are within 10% of $1B).