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FLS Community Workshop Report
J. J. Condon, P. Myers and G. Helou
- Introduction:
A Community Workshop, convened by B.T. Soifer, Director of the SIRTF
Science Center (SSC), met on September 15 and 16, 1999 on the Caltech
Campus in Pasadena, CA. The purpose of the workshop was to formulate a
scientific definition of the SIRTF First Look Survey (FLS), in terms of
observational goals and priorities. The Workshop gathered about forty
participants, including members of the SSC Oversight Committee, members of
the SIRTF Science Users Panel, and potential SIRTF users drawn from the
astronomical community at large. Staff scientists from the SSC and from
the SIRTF Science office, as well as members of the SIRTF instrument teams
also participated, and offered information on technical issues as well as
the Guaranteed Time Program. An attendance list is attached at the end of
the report.
The Workshop convened in plenary session for half a day, then divided up
into two groups, one to consider the needs for extragalactic surveys,
moderated by J.J. Condon, and the other to consider the needs within the
Milky Way, moderated by P. Myers.
- The FLS extragalactic component:
- Science Goals
- Observational Definition
- Description of Survey
- Ancillary Data
- FLS Data Products
- The FLS Within-the-Milky-Way component:
- Science Goals
- Observational Definition and Description of
Surveys
- Ancillary Data
- Additional Comments:
Workshop participants were also concerned that sufficient
resources be devoted to developing software analysis tools
for IRS observations, even though for various reasons the FLS
Workshop did not recommend FLS observations with the IRS instrument.
- Summary:
The community workshop was able to derive a coherent definition of the
SIRTF First Look Survey, which is also quite workable in practice. The
total amount of time requested adds up to about 107 hours.
- Workshop Participants
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