TKP Amsterdam 2012 Discussion

Rob Fender

Transcript

1. Discussion
   1. Readiness for Cycle 0:
   Resources Manpower & Task Allocation
   2. What do we want from MSSS?
   3. Preparing for Cycle 1
   

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2. Proposal
   number
   PI TItle Request
   003 Fender
   (general)
   Wide field searches for image-plane radio
   transients
   196
   005 Courtin
   (Planets WG)
   A determination of the abundance of
   water in Saturn's deep
   atmosphere with LOFAR
   20
   006 De Pater
   (Planets WG)
   LOFAR Observations of Jupiter's
   Synchrotron Radiation
   23
   007 Zarka
   (Planets WG)
   Exoplanet radio search and
   characterization
   43
   008 Stappers
   (Pulsars WG)
   LOFAR studies of pulsars, fast transients
   and the ISM
   85
   010 Karastergiou ARTEMIS on LOFAR: 260
   011 Verbiest
   (Pulsars WG)
   Pulsar timing with LOFAR 45
   013 Osten
   (Flare stars WG)
   Stellar Radio Astronomy with LOFAR 24
   014 Serylak
   (Pulsars WG)
   Studying pulsars and the interstellar
   medium using International
   LOFAR stations
   364
   

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3. Proposal
   number
   PI TItle Request
   23 Griessmeier
   (Planets WG)
   Measuring the energy of Saturn's
   lightning
   30
   34 Hessels
   (Pulsars WG)
   LOTAAS: The LOFAR Tied-Array All-Sky
   Survey for Pulsars and Fast
   Transients
   200
   35 Van Leeuwen
   (Pulsars WG)
   Targeted searches for pulsars and fast
   transients
   90
   39 Miller-Jones
   (Jets WG)
   Variable jet sources in the LOFAR band 78
   (not including Karastergiou and Serylak) TOTAL 834 hr
   

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4. Proposal
   number
   PI TItle Request
   17 Lazio A Search for radio emissions from HD
   80606b
   30
   22 Ransom LOFAR timing of pulsars and rotating radio
   transients in GBT 350-MHz surveys
   114
   31 McNamara AGN outburst in MS0735.6+7421 15
   36 Beskin Low-frequency polarization observations of
   radio pulsars to
   determine the properties of the plasma
   12
   40 Cordes Using Diffractive Interstellar Scintillations
   (DISS) to Resolve Pulsar
   magnetospheres
   18
   42 Lewandowska Multi-frequency observations of giant radio
   pulse emission from pulsars
   22
   Open-time proposals in 'our' area
   (some of these include TKSP members) TOTAL 211 hr
   

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5. Results (teaser) from ASTRON:
   “So today I have to suffice by saying that both large
   proposals LC0_003 and LC0_008 did very well in the
   process, and will get very significant allocations, while most
   of the smaller proposals from your group, but not all, can
   probably be scheduled in part. I think your team will be
   loaded with more than enough data soon enough!
   We hope to have more news in the next few days, and to
   settle all allocations well before Christmas.”
   (Interlude: several more emails)
   “Okay, I think the only additional suggestion I feel I can give
   right now is that your group really should prepare to deal
   with a major fraction of the data requested.”
   

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6. STSci
   ICRAR
   Manc.
   So'ton
   ASTRON
   Ams.
   ASTRON
   Nancay
   P / O ~ 1 means we can only do limited stuff on CEP – just NDPPP?
   and then do all the rest of our processing on local facilities?Are there
   enough? How is transients database synchronised between sites?
   Essential that there is a stable version of TraP available from now on
   In preparation...
   

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7. 2. What do we want from MSSS? and what issues would you
   like me to take to the KSP PI meeting next week?
   Commissioning of fast modes in 2013?
   NCP (Stewart)
   Comparison of variability with VLSS ?
   Survey of high-energy sources (e.g. XRBs, Fermi sources)?
   (G. Heald)
   31.2%
   18.2%
   32.5%
   13.0%
   4.5%
   0.6%
   

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8. 3. Preparing for cycle 1
   Provisional deadline March 15
   Strategy will depend on:
   – what projects got time in cycle 0
   – what the cycle 0 projects got
   → we need to have some quantifiable results from the
   Cycle 0 projects
   → for the larger projects that may mean making
   sure that key measurements are made on some
   subset of the data rather than half-finishing
   

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9. Bid for funding has gone in for joint
   MeerKAT/ASKAP/LOFAR transients
   meeting
   Proposed dates: 8-12 July 2013
   With.... SuperJEDI
   

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