Hi everyone, We'll have a BICEP2 team meeting today (Tuesday) from 9-10 am Pacific. Thanks to those who have sent reports for the listed analysis items. Phone: 1-866-890-3820 (toll: 1-334-323-7229) Passcode:59702175 Notes in the Google doc for the meeting: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1iVrfX19cXQr8fUgRYOUosshApHAIteOzir9REQA… The Bispud pipeline telecon will follow immediately, run by Clem. Except as listed below, all new analysis postings will be reviewed in the pipeline telecon, not the main BICEP2 telecon. Agenda below. - Walt ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 30 Oct 2012 BICEP2 weekly telecon 1) Weekly report from Pole [ Steff ] - NTD crosstalk schedule run twice 2) Data quality / reduc czar report * This week's reduc czar report [ Jon ] - Missing arc files? * Next week’s czar [ Walt ] 3) Testing and deployment planning * Thermal testing [ Jon ] * Deployment / measurement plan [ Colin, Randol ] https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Ao4UxezLygx5dExiM2U4RHFyZmVFLU… * FTS [ Zak ] - Should have been shipped last week 4) Analysis status updates: brief summaries below Baseline 2yr data reduction updates [ Walt ] * El nod goodness of fit cut [ Martin, Angiola ] - Angiola has re-made cutparams files with new quantities - posting in progress to suggest thresholds Characterizing non-beam systematics [ Walt / Angiola ] * relgain mismatch from per-channel abscal [ Walt ]: - full sims from WMAP V, W with same tag list and cuts are done - see Oct. 29 posting from RWO * Thermal: Jon's test schedules continuing to run or in the queue - testing models for origin of 'crosstalk' in tests * Magnetic [ Angiola ]: - Oct. 29 posting - Cuts still remove significant amount of data - Repeat of dark scans test now would be useful Characterizing beam systematics [ Abby (/Randol) ] * Measurement plan for pole - instructions for sidelobe meas [ Randol ] - done - instructions for RPS obs [ Abby ] - suggestion in notes * RPS Polarization angle and cross-polar response posting [Abby] - extract psi/epsilon including source “wobble.” - bad consistency between measurements at dk=0 and dk=90 * List of outstanding items Deprojection / beamsim algorithm coding status report [ Chris, Clem ] Data consistency check status report [ Chris (/Randol) ] * Compare recovered coeffs with measured beams [ Randol ] - Will do later this week * Signal-only sims w/ best-fit coefficients for contamination upper limits - yet to do * Criterion for passing jack tests [ Randol, Denis ] - note in progress for BICEP1 Foregrounds status report: [ Jamie T ] * Jamie T. now in transit Statistics for reporting bandpowers, r constraints [ Colin / John ]