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Notes for Jan 17 2018 Telecon

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
  • * 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
  • * nominal scan strategy information can be found here: https://zzz.physics.umn.edu/ipsig/optimizingscanstrategy/start
  • * Plan for toast runs: PICO focal plane layout not trivial(because not hex-packed), but LBL folks. Four detectors are no problem.
  • * 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.
  • * Far Sidelobes: GRASP sims available (see Imager page).
  • * Absolute Polarization Angle calibration. 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