Attendance: Amy, Shaul, Nick, Charles, Dave, Dan, Raphael

Notes by:

• 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
• Review of Draft Report
  • Status Updates from Science Section leads
  • Coordination with Pearson regarding Engineering Section (Charles)
• Galactic Science STM Work - Chuss, Fissel, Trangsrud, Hanany

coordination with S4 and rest of community about report:

• There are three products: 1) Science white paper (SWP) for decadal panel; 2) report for PICO, due Dec; 3) S4 is writing project book
• SH agreed with Lloyd: SWP should be formally independent from projects. Lloyd has started putting stuff into a wiki page only for SWP, 2 days ago.
• Galactic science white paper?

Dave: we are still in the process of determining what should be in

Shaul: there might be broader range of people who are interested in this

Charles: CMB-S4 is also preparing white paper for decal survey, there would be overlap

Shaul: CMB-S4 is preparing an augment, not planning to submit an independent site.

documents for next year, Dec. 2018 to Dec. 2019.

Charles:

Shaul: complementary paper was thought to be (with Julian) submitted with project paper, not with science paper.

Requirement vs current best estimate

thermal requirement and thermal loads

Temperatures of mirrors and stop: high confidence now.

excel sheets, current best estimate 0.61, slightly better than 0.65 reported in SPIE paper, requirement 0.85

draft report

outline, Shaul wants to go through, 1 month to produce texts

Sec 2.1, Shaul is committed to write 1.5 pages in a week or two

Dan: we agreed to work on 2.1 with Raphael

Raphael: no obstruction

The bullets are from STM, science trace matrix

Shaul: it would be unfortunate if PICO can do some science but we don’t highlight

(Ai) 2.1 and 2.2.1 in Two weeks

Shaul: by the end of Augst, we need a draft

2.2.1 and 2.2.2, three weeks from now, leave one week for EC summary

signal/noise

use updated numbers

STM are based on requirement

Run with both numbers

Writing texts in three weeks

what are the key figures going in, and how we want to improve them

text in place in 3 weeks. Forecasts could be later. Dave: we are still deciding what the key figures are within 3 pages with 5 topics.

2.4

Shaul: Douglas

Nick: 2 pages for “additional science”, now it’s 4 pages, needs to be trimmed; leave half page for other stuff, maybe 2 or 3 more communities; my stuff does not need half of page, can be short.

Shaul to send email to ?? talking about trimming down.

Shaul: flip 2.4, 2.5 before 2.3? move 2.3 after foreground and systematics?

Amy:

2.5. complementary

Charles did

Marshar Smithful?? during WorkShop, data with other data sets, Charles will contact him (AI)

Instrument and mission (Amy)

JPL challenge, we have a schedule

Instrument is , the mission a page of telescope, total page: 7

we have some draft content for spacecraft

Ch6, by the end of this month

Shaul:

Amy: JPL based template, like other Probes, happy to work on it to shrink pages.