EoR Planning/Discussion Session MWA Project Meeting – 7 December 2011

EoR Planning/Discussion SessionMWA Project Meeting – 7 December 2011

• What have we done during the past six months?

• What are our plans? The data are coming!

What Have we Done During the Past Six Months?Updates

13:30-14:00 • Already heard about

- New deconvolution algorithm – Miguel Morales- 32T sky survey – Gianni Bernardi- Calibration and EoR – Randall Wayth for Cath Trott- Foreground contaminants – Nithya Thyagarajan

• Three quick updates today- EoR2 field survey results – Chris Williams (10 mins)- Shapes of foregrounds in k-space (10 mins)

- Subtleties in foreground subtraction – Adrian Liu (10 mins)

What Are Our Plans?Discussions14:00-15:30

• Taking the data – Judd Bowman (15 mins)• Archiving the data – Ed Morgan (15 mins)• Foreground subtraction pipeline – Miguel Morales (20 mins)

- With contributions from algorithm developers• Power spectrum generation

- Application of Lomb-Scargle periodogram techniques - Bryna Hazelton (15 mins)

- Application of CMB Inverse Variance Weighting techniques – Adrian Liu (15 mins)

• EoR publication policies – Rachel Webster (10 mins)