The K2 Campaign 9 Microlensing Workhop: Intro to the K2 Mission

We had a pre-proposal workshop to prepare interested scientist for the K2 Campaign 9 Microlensing Experiment. I gave the first talk

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1. The NASA K2 Mission Tom Barclay Director, Kepler/K2 Guest Observer Office
2. What is K2? • K2 is a two-reaction wheel controlled mission utilizing the Kepler spacecraft • We observe 100 sq. deg. fields toward the ecliptic plane • Each field is observed for around 80 days continuously • There is no “K2 Mission Goal”, we support community science investigations
3. How does it work?
4. How does it work?
6. The First Year
7. Upcoming Science
8. Neptune
9. Observing with K2 • C0 - C2 at the MAST • C3 & C4 being processed • C5 being observed right now • C6 & C7 proposals reviewed • C8, C9 & C10 proposals due • C11 - C13 fields not yet set
10. The (GO) Story So Far Campaign Proposals Received Targets Observed Funding 0 124 7744 - 1 76 21635 - 2 116 13399 - 3 16370 - 4 93 15847 $1.0M 5 25099 6 76 - $1.0M 7 -
11. Campaign 9 The Microlensing Science Experiment Timeline 1. Feb 2015: Call for proposals released 2. June 2, 2015: Mandatory Step-1 proposals due 3. July 1, 2015: Step-2 proposals due 4. Sep 2015: Proposals Reviewed 5. Oct 2015: Selections made and funding available 6. Fall 2015: First K2 Microlensing Science Team Meeting 7. Jan/Feb 2016: Final pixel recommendations due from Science Team 8. April 2016: Observations start 9. July 2016: Observations stop 10.Fall 2016: Data from K2 Campaign 9 publicly available
12. Data Products • An EPIC catalog for C9 is already online at the MAST • K2 will be available from the MAST • Target Pixel Files only - these are image files • no photometry • Spacecraft housekeeping and engineering data • Any full-frame images we take (do you want any??) • Background pixels (we probably won’t take these) • Artifact Remove Pixels (we can probably drop these too) • Masked and virtual smear and trailing black (you probably do want these) • Ancillary Engineering Data (pointing from FGS, temperature sensors, etc.)
13. NASA Research Announcement for K2 Guest Observer - Cycle 3 “The intention is to form a cohesive team that can work to represent and serve the best interests of the microlensing scientific community”
14. C9 Proposals • We will form a team of approximately five to ten members, who will coordinate with the K2 project regarding the observational planning of Campaign 9. The intention is to form a cohesive team that can work to represent and serve the best interests of the microlensing scientific community. • Proposals will address one or more specific areas of work relevant to the exploitation of K2 microlensing experiment data. • All data, products, analyses, and results obtained by Team members are nonproprietary. Data shall be suitably reduced, analyzed, and documented, and will be required to be delivered to a public archive • Priority for selection will be determined by programmatic relevance, technical merit and cost reasonableness, and the value these efforts have to the wider scientific community.
15. Proposal subjects • Investigations must involve research activities that relate to the detection, characterization, or understanding of gravitational microlensing events observed by K2. • Some possible programs include (but are not limited to): • Facilitating simultaneous ground-based data collection and analyses of those ground based data; • Development and execution of methods that ensure accurate under- sampled crowded field photometry; • Characterization and removal of systematic biases, target selection effects, 
 background contamination, and detection efficiency to inform completeness and reliability estimates of detected events; • Proposals for participation in the Microlensing Science Team by scientists who can provide or facilitate coordinated ground-based observations are strongly encouraged.
16. The purpose of this workshop is … • Get us all talking! • Understand capabilities and expectations • a two way dialog on this • What am I missing? What am I not yet thinking about but really should be? • What do you need from the project? • Develop a timeline