Second MSSS meeting
Date: 21st August 2008, 9.00 - 16.00
Location: Colloquium Room, ASTRON, Dwingeloo The Netherlands
Documentation
Prelimenary specifications for the MSSS – Ronald Nijboer and Ger de Bruyn
Agenda
09.00 - 09.05 Welcome (& commissioning tasks) - Michael Wise
09.05 - 09.35 MSSS: how and why - an introduction - Ger de Bruyn
09.35 - 10.00 Off-line processing: calibration and imaging - Ronald Nijboer
10.00 - 10.30 Beam models - Ronald Nijboer
10.30 - 11.00 Coffee break
11.00 - 11.15 Ionosphere model: SPAM - Huib Intema
11.15 - 11.30 SPAM in BBS - Maaijke Mevius
11.30 - 12.00 LSM / GSM / Source Finding - Michael Wise
12.00 - 12.30 Operational issues - Hanno Holties
12.30 - 13.30 Lunch
13.30 - 14.30 MSSS and European baselines
- LOFAR and long baselines - James Anderson
- European LOFAR - Ger de Bruyn, presenting ideas by Jaap Bregman
- Discussion (led by Ger de Bruyn)
14.30 - 14.45 Polarimetry and RM synthesis issues - Sven Duscha
14.45 - 15.45 Discussion / open issues - All KSPs (led by Michael Wise)
- Commissioning surveys - Huub Rottgering
- Commissioning tasks - Michael Wise (see Welcome presentation)
15.45 - 16.00 Science & proprietary issues - Rene Vermeulen
16.00 End of meeting