JMMC/ESO Calibrator Workgroup - Feb. 16 2011 / 14h-16h

Participants

Group Members	Attending
Markus WITTKOWSKI
Isabelle PERCHERON
Klara SHABUN
OlivierChesneau
PierreCruzalebes
GillesDuvert
GuillaumeMella
SylvainLafrasse

Contact Informations

• Grenoble
  • room : Belledone
  • server : visiolaog.obs.ujf-grenoble.fr (@IP 152.77.114.26)
  • phone : 00 33 476 635 508
  • contact : Sylvain Lafrasse (sylvain.lafrasse@obs.ujf-grenoble.fr)
• Nice
  • room: new teleconf. room
  • server: IP 192.54.174.200
  • phone: ?
  • contact: Olivier Chesneau (Olivier.Chesneau@obs-azur.fr)
• Garching
  • room : L130
  • phone : +49 89 3200 6669
  • contact : Markus Wittkowski (mwittkow@eso.org)
  • server: videoconf. will be initiated from here

Action Lists

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Agenda

Status of the updates for the next release in June 2011

• JMMC Catalogue
  • diam_vk values to be present for all stars, also for those that are present in the Borde or Merand catalogues;
  • fixing of the problem of "faulty diam_vk computed from wrong magnitudes coming from Bordé" mentioned in the email from S. Lafrasse, dated 3 Dec 2010 17:41:54;
  • addition of the MIDI consortium calibrator catalogue;
• ESO CalVin Interface
  • fixing of a bug in the computation of the shadowing, and addition of delay line limits;
  • addition of the seeing-dependent limiting magnitude for AMBER;
  • enabling of the LST/HA option;
  • enabling of the search by visibility;

Discussion on possible longer-term improvements

Compared to our original science requirements document, the following items are not yet or not fully implemented. Should they ?

• Spectral type, luminosity class, temperature, surface gravity, LMN magnitudes in the catalogue
  • information on quality as astrometric reference star;
  • information on quality as spectral calibrator (cf. Sect. 3 of the science requirements document);
• Use of a bad calibrator list and feedback to the catalogue (cf. Sect. 3 of the science requirements document);
• Information on previous observations and measured quality of a calibrator (cf. Sect. 4 of the science requirements document);
• display of feasible LST range for science target and calibrators (also search for desired LST range) cf. Sects. 5&6;
• "The new tool shall make use of modern visualizing capabilities and be designated with ease of use in mind" (cf. Sect. 7) Are we there ?

The science requirements document stated

• "Strategy to find calibrators and to estimate their diameters shall be discussed and regularly revised" How do we do this ?

Short informal outlook on our collaboration?

-- SylvainLafrasse - 16 Feb 2011