• Cover Art - Volunteer(s)?
• Policy for report Authors/Endorsers?
• Final TeamX - 2nd week of October
• Status of report Current status
  • Schedule (work backwards)
    • Submit 12/31/2018 = effectively Friday 12/21
    • 4 weeks to implement external review comments + final polish = 11/21 (11/21-26 - Thanksgiving)
    • Nov. 1: submit to external reviews; receive back between 11/9 and 11/19
    • Nov. 1 version: essentially final text; essentially final forecasts; essentially final Figures
  • Last Week's Action Items
• Revised cost estimate process for all the Probes
  • Draft charter for the Probes Concept Assessment Team (PCAT)
  • See more information below

PCAT

• Independent cost estimate by Science Office of Mission Assessment is canceled
• Cost Estimation and Pricing Section (CEPS) in JPL will provide a cost estimate that is independent of TeamX's
• PCAT will review CEPS and RAO's (Goddard's CEPS) estimates, and will provide another review of the feasibility of executing the Probes within costs.
• Q: What is the input to CEPS?
  • A: “Spreadsheet with some specific requested information” and the report. (what about the TeamX slides? )
• Q: Interaction with CEPS?
  • A: there will be a get-to-work meeting in January with opportunity for questions and some communication. Other interactions Afterwards and before the final meeting in May? Not clear.
• Q: What if CEPS costs come different than TeamX? Will there be an opportunity to reconcile?
  • A: There will be a reconciliation meeting with PCAT. But with the teams? Not clear.

More Questions

• What will be submitted to the Decadal?
• CEPS Process: Are the TeamX slides provided to CEPS? What other inputs they require? Is there a technical briefing or technical Q/A with the teams?
• For a given Probe, is there a reconciliation process between the TeamX cost and the CEPS cost? Will PCAT be managing this in real time (or is PCAT handed a reconciled cost)?

• Update on Signal Separation (aka - foregrounds) - Clem
  • Clem's posting about foreground models
  • Foreground telecon with Soumen's latest results

Recommendations for external reviewers (deliver report end of Oct.)

• desired perspectives: broad astrophysics; few within the field; Orbital vs sub-orbital; technical expertise
• Names proposed so far
  • US: Page, Dodelson, Bennett, Hinshaw, Ruhl, Runyan
  • International: Desert, DeBernardis,
  • suggested in telecon: Francios, Ganga,
  • Any outside CMB field? SH: Josh Frieman? –sure.
  • Any survey groups? JB: Dave Spurgel. MS: Anze Slosar SH: Martin White,
    • AT: good to people with broad perspective. experience with mission proposals is a plus. This document is essentially a mission proposal.
    • Jamie Bock? (is formally on EC, so more 'neighbor' than external)
    • SH: People outside field are especially useful. Surveys? other space missions?
      • CP: Anyone from Euclid?
      • Ichiro (Andrian?) Klapsful (sp?
      • JB: A Euclid group that does 'external data'. Will look for a name from that group.
    • SH: LSST connections? NB: Eric Wiezers, Phil Marshal (spokes-people), Rachael Mandlebaum (DESC people)
      • JB: Michael Strauss

Status of Probe Report Current status(All)

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