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 **Notes for Jan 17 2018 Telecon** **Notes for Jan 17 2018 Telecon**
  
-On the call: Brendan, Maurizio, +On the call: Brendan, Maurizio, Shaul, Joy, Enrique
  
- +  * PICO workshop early May: two days out of the week of April 30 - May 3, at Minneapolis
-  * PICO workshop early May+
     ** a good deadline for finishing the bulk of our work     ** a good deadline for finishing the bulk of our work
 +    ** proposing an hour or so presentation on systematics, plus 1 hour
   * updates on The Big Three   * updates on The Big Three
-    ** Gain stability +    ** nominal scan strategy information can be found here: https://zzz.physics.umn.edu/ipsig/optimizingscanstrategy/start 
-    ** Far Sidelobes +    ** Plan for toast runs: PICO focal plane layout not trivial(because not hex-packed), but LBL folks.  Four detectors are no problem. 
-    ** Absolute Polarization Angle calibration+    ** Gain stability: Maurizio about to get started: similar analysis as done for CORE, sims of dipole observations + sims of gains per detector, use custom mapmaking code to solve for gain drift.  Look at the CORE systematics paper for details + link to source code for simulations (pdf file). 
 +    ** Far Sidelobes: GRASP sims available (see Imager page).   
 +    ** Absolute Polarization Angle calibration.  Can use analytic solution to look at what happens when we don't solve for absolute polarization angle (by say, minimizing EB and TB).
   * Cubesat calibration concept   * Cubesat calibration concept
 +    ** original idea proposed for Litebird
 +    ** some resources coming in a few months for some preliminary engineering work to be done.  This is likely to provide some results on a time scale that is useful to PICO.
 +    ** will try to generalize for Litebird and PICO in the near term.
 +    ** proposing to ESA (6 March deadline), building up a consortium for a larger 3 year cubesat project.  Will study the performance gains for a larger mission (e.g. CORE)
 +    ** The idea: a piggyback satellite that autonomously deploys and positions itself.  Attitude and orbital control are the key issues.
 +    ** goal is a few kg mass, and cost ~ 1% of total cost of mission.
 +    ** The idea is to "Calibrate Everything"!  Polarization angle, photometry, main beams, far sidelobes.  
 +       * Cover wide frequency band: 10's of GHz, 40-400 GHz originally conceived.  
 +       * Monochromatic tones that can be swept in frequency.
 +     * Future ESA work will study some key trades, cost, mass, etc., and even possibly look at hardware demos.
 +   * Do Galactic science need better than 1 degree precision in polarization angle?
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