ProSci Report

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ProSci Report

• outreach
• resources for MWA-ers
• resources for colleagues (mwatelescope.org)
• science case publication
• science and technical alignment of project
• field-data processing
• mainly engineering
• defer to Mitchell talk
• shadow project
• mwaintelligence

Lincoln Greenhill
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Updates are needed to this documentation Q1 09
best?
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If you attend a relevant meeting or know of one,
please add it. If you have given a relevant talk
or a poster, please upload it.
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If you have material that would help others to
prepare presentations about MWA/science, please
make it available.
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Science Case Publication

• charter
• organize, edit, and write peer-reviewed
  publication in PASA of the MWA science case in
  tandem with general technical specifications and
  linkages.
• team members coordinate (lasso) contributions
  from individuals in the KSPs.
• motivation
• An MWA science case in the peer-reviewed
  literature helps the project and everyone in it.
• ASKAP case (PASA, ExA)
• suggest broad authorship

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Science Case Publication

• team
• boom David Kaplan (UCSB)
• geg Shami Chatterjee (USyd/ATNF)
• eor Judd Bowman (CalTech)
• shi Justin Kasper (CfA)
• P.S. Lincoln Greenhill (CfA)
• P.D. Alan Whitney (Haystack)
• goal
• submission ltlt end of Q1 2009 lt 30 pp refs.
• leverage Lonsdale et al. 2009, IEEE
• Flexible description of array (e.g., O(500) tiles)

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Sample of Sci-Tech Linkages
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Alignment

• Charter
• identify and analyze science package requirements
  substantively in tension
• identify and pursue science-driven studies (via
  simulation) that may be required to set MWA
  specifications and operational requirements
• assess alignment between planned RTS output/ops
  and science package requirements and
• assess on-site storage/service and fiber
  transmission requirements for each science
  package.

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Alignment

• Team
• boom David Kaplan (UCSB)
• geg/boom Tara Murphy (USyd)
• eor Judd Bowman (CalTech)
• shi Justin Kasper (CfA)
• rts Daniel Mitchell (CfA)
• p.s. Lincoln Greenhill (CfA)
• p.e. Frank Briggs (ANU)
• Hot seat Feb - May 09
• formal science-technical trade study desired
• to depend heavily on simulations and RTS use

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