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GSC-II Annual
Meeting Summary
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October 19-20 2000
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CBBC, Stevensville,
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This was the 6th annual meeting to review the progress of the GSC-II project. In order to help everyone focus on the goals of the meeting and to minimize distractions, it was decided to hold this 2-day meeting as an off-site retreat at a conference center in Stevensville, MD on Kent Island. |
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| Meeting Goals | |
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Review status of production processing and database loading |
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| Update consortium on current (and future) calibration techniques and quality control | |
| Update on current and planned GSC-II use for telescope operations | |
| Describe science projects currently using GSC-II material | |
| Main Highlights |
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| CASB is committed to supporting telescope operations and will deliver data as needed | |
| Plate scanning and processing virtually complete for next delivery | |
| GSC-II data quality meets specifications, but goal is to improve | |
| Good science is underway | |
| Astrometry | No major systematics left except magnitude equation (relatively small) |
| Photometry | Bright and faint extrapolations still problem, no galaxy photometry. |
| Still need GSPC2 observations for 5% of sky. | |
| Classification | As good as anybody else, multiplate voting helps, development well |
| advanced. | |
| Schedule | Will keep close to planned release schedule. Descoped contents of |
| paper GSC2.2 to match reduced resources and moved enhancements to GSC2.3. | |
| GSPC2 submitted to A&A. | |
| Action Items : | |
| - Fill in error fields and multi-plate classification with apply_calibs | |
| - Reference catalogs in COMPASS | |
| - Additional QA tasks | |
| - GSC2Query enhancement for telescope ops | |
| - Documentation for ops | |
| - Review export catalog format | |
| - Data restrictions in public release | |
| - Plans for journal papers and press release | |
| - Resources | |