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Foregrounds & Data Challenges
The focus of this group is to demonstrate the ability of PICO to meet its various science goals by setting up and analyzing data challenges that include representative galactic and extra-galactic foreground models.
Telecon Information
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Paper Outline + Other Documentation
Logbook
Telecons
Link to main foregrounds telecons page
Link to logbook
- Telecon 20220224 + Notes (Updates )
- Telecon 20220217 + Notes (Figure of Small patch selection; Low \ell likelihood; r-estimate with real delensing )
- Telecon 20220210 + Notes (small patch discussion)
- Telecon 20220127 + Notes (Results from HK from Commander on 90.91 )
- Telecon 20220120 + Notes (Discussion with Julien about next steps )
- Telecon 20211028 + Notes (MR - small patch; delensing; paper figures)
- Telecon 20211021 + Notes (Update from Ragnhild; lensing discussion )
- Telecon 20211014 + Notes (Julien-delensing; paper figures; TechGap )
- Telecon 20210923 + Notes (delensing; model 98 over smaller sky sections )
- Telecon 20210916 + Notes (Alex and Colin - delensing, paper tasks)
- Telecon 20210902 + Notes (How low in frequency should we recommend? Commander Update )
- Telecon 20210826 + Notes (Delensing Plan )
- Telecon 20210701 + Notes ( Mathieu model 96, Kris high res synch )
- Telecon 20210617 + Notes ( General updates )
- Telecon 20210527 + Notes ( MKD maps + Ragnhild + results from MR)
- Telecon 20210520 + Notes ( MKD maps )
- Telecon 20210429 + Notes (
Revised PICO noise from Rejig ) - Telecon 20210401 + Notes (
PICO noise from Reijo and Andrea}}) - Telecon 20210318 + Notes (Update from Ragnhild, discussion of Commander noise)
- Telecon 20210304 + Notes (Update from Kris Gorski; Clem+Commander)
- Telecon 20210121 + Notes (NILC: Discussion (no new slides); Commander Update )
- Telecon 20210107 + Notes (Ragnhild-Updated Commander Model, Status update, e-mail with SH; MR-Somewhat updated Nov 12 slides)
- Telecon 20201210 + Notes (Ragnhild: Commander Model)
- Telecon 20201112 + Notes (Updates from MR)
- Telecon 20201029 + Notes (Ragnhild - update, e-mail regarding chi^2 and masks with SH )
- Telecon 20200917 + Notes (Updates from Ragnhild+MR)
- Telecon 20200903 + Notes (Updates from Ragnhild)
- Telecon 20200820 + Notes (Updates from Ragnhild)
- Telecon 20200709 + Notes (Updates from Ragnhild)
- Telecon 20200625 + Notes (Updates from Ragnhild; Mathieu's r and sigma-r estimates; Raphael recommends including r=0.003 )
- Telecon 20200611 + Notes (Kick-off + Mathieu, Ragnhild, Jacques slides )
- Telecon 20180920 + Notes (report from Belen, posting from Soumen, posting from Josquin, brief report from Graca)
- Telecon 20180913 + Notes (Discussion of SEVEM, Graca's work, and Soumen's progress)
- Telecon 20180830 + Notes (New posting from Soumen, update from Graca, update on report)
- Telecon 20180823 + Notes (Review of Mathieu, discussion of Soumen's results)
- Telecon 20180809 + Notes (Soumen + Graca (?))
- Telecon 20180726 + Notes (Soumen + Mathieu)
- Telecon 20180712 + Notes (MR reports on results with model 90.01)
- Telecon 20180705 + Notes (Giuseppe CO Lines)
- Telecon 20180628 + Notes (recap of progress to date, CO Lines, Report)
- Telecon 20180621 + Notes (recap of progress to date)
- Telecon 20180607 + Notes (See also logbook)
- Telecon 20180329 + Notes (Update on making maps; Mathieu reports on adding delensing)
- Telecon 20180315 + Notes (General update)
- Telecon 20180308 + Notes (Mathieu's report)
- Telecon 20180208 + Notes (Kick-off telecon, full sky maps)
- Telecon 20180124 + Notes (Mathieu's report)
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