Information for 2MASS Science Team Meeting, November 5-6, 1997

General references:

List of most 2MASS webpages, organized by category
2MASS Facts, a file giving basic facts about many elements of 2MASS. Caveat: the file is far from being complete.
The UMASS Public 2MASS Website
The UMASS 2MASS Team Information Website
The IPAC Public 2MASS Website

Specific overall reference for parameters that need setting:

Tunable Parameters For Each of the 2MAPPS Subsystems

2MASS Science Team Meeting

Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, MA

November 5-6, 1997

Web info from the presenters is reached by clicking on the presenter's names below. If you don't see it, it ain't there. As of Monday, 3 November 1997, 21:50 PST, there are 13 weblinks.

Time	Agenda Item	Presenter
November 5, 1997
9:30	Opening remarks ERB recommendations	Skrutskie, Klein, Bicay
10:00	Survey hardware and status report Cameras Telescopes Operations and Scheduling	Skrutskie Stiening E. Howard
11:00	Pipeline status report	Cutri
Subsystem parameter tuning review: Presentations to be made by cognizant scientists
11:30	DARKS: computes darks, responsivity images, masks	Skrutskie
12:00	Lunch
1:00	PIXCAL/DFLAT: computes sky offsets; flattens frames	Elston
1:15	PIXPHOT/PICMAN/FREXAS/: generates coadded images; does point-source detection; computes geometrical model (rubber sheet) for each band; detects point sources for frame offsets and Read1 photometry; computes frame offsets; computes seeing parameter(s), statistics	Carpenter
1:45	PROPHOT: does PSF-fitting point-source extraction	Weinberg
2:15	MAPCOR: does Read1 merge; purges ghosts, persistence, and objects too close to bright objects; computes and applies aperture corrections	Elias
2:45	BANDMERGE: band-merges point sources; applies color terms	Liebert
3:00	POSMAN: reconstructs inertial positions	Monet
3:15	Break
3:45	DBMAN: data-base management	Mazzarella
4:15	GALWORKS: extracts galaxies; band-fills point sources	Schneider/Huchra
???	Dinner chez Huchra (all welcome -- please RSVP)
???	Dinner will be followed by meeting of the calibrations group (all welcome)

Time	Agenda Item	Presenter
November 6, 1997
Completion of subsystem parameter tuning discussion
8:30	QUALITY: does intermediate-product quality checking; does point-source confirmation for scan overlaps	Cutri/Skrutskie
9:00	MPCAT: does catalog association to asteroids	Price
9:15	CALMON: computes and applies photometric calibration	Seitzer
10:15	Global calibration considerations and error tree	Elias
11:00	Break
11:15	Review of specification for first incremental data release	Beichman
12:00	Lunch
1:00	Science team data access	Cutri
1:30	2MASS Outreach and Community Training Activity	Beichman, Cutri
2:00	Core Projects Reports	Liebert, Weinberg, Huchra/Schneider
3:30	2MASS presentation at Washington and San Diego AAS	Skrutskie, Cutri
4:15	Contingency

http://spider.ipac.caltech.edu/tchester/2mass/nov97_agenda.html
Comments to: Tom Chester
Last update: 3 November 1997