Hi all, I will be traveling and unable to lead (probably unable to join) tomorrow's telecon. Clem has offered to lead it, and Walt to take notes. Last week's telecon notes are complete--please review. Clem will send this week's agenda. Please remember new postings should be up by 7am eastern. John On 8/26/13 11:18 PM, John Kovac wrote: -- ___________________________________________________________________ John Kovac jmkovac(a)cfa.harvard.edu Associate Professor, Harvard University Astronomy Department 160 Concord Ave rm 310, Cambridge MA 02138, 617-496-0611

Hi all, We will have our BICEP2 / Keck CMB result telecon today at the usual time: Tues, 17 Sep 2013 - 12:00 Eastern, 11:00 Central, 9:00 am Pacific 1-866-890-3820 (toll: 1-334-323-7229) Passcode: 59702175# We have a LOT of postings this week so we must be efficient--we'll begin promptly after the hour and cap the telecon at 2:30 max. Here's today's agenda in brief: 1) Papers - Paper I: Instrument - update from Walt - Paper II: Beams - update from Abby - Paper III: Systematics - Chris AIFL: Review outline this week: http://bmode.caltech.edu/~bicep2/papers/2013_systematics/ 2) Computing issues - General - Walt ~/.lsbatch directory collects many files; good to clean out - Simset issues - Stefan Pace of current sim progress? 3) Postings [ Clem ] - Far sidelobe convolution: 2013 Sep 10: All-sky convolution: Presentation (SRH) - Pipeline results and consistency postings: 2013 Sept 16: Full consistency tests of B2 vs Keck spectra (CLP) 2013 Sep 11: Error bar pager mini-post (GPT) 2013 Sep 11: BB pager mini-post (GPT) 2013 Sep 10: Spread in signal-only sims (GPT) - Polarization angles: 2013 Sept 12: Twisting the pol angles (CLP) 2013 Sep 16: Birefrigence/Polarization Rotation in Bicep2 and Keck (STF) - Crosstalk: 2013 Sept 11: Crosstalk levels from the uberchopper beam maps (SASK) - Deprojection: 2013 Sept 16: Deprojection coefficients III (CDS) - Abscal: 2013 Sep 16: Per-detector abscal with 3yr data and Planck input maps (RWO) - Possible satellite transmissions in data: 2013 Sep 16: Satcom traffic: Searching for GOES (RWO) 2013 Sep 13: Satcom traffic in our CMB data (RWO) 2013 Sep 13: Satcom traffic in our (galactic) data (RWO) 4) Other initial-result-critical tasks - Beammap sim work in progress [Chin Lin] - AOB Full agenda is in the telecon notes here http://goo.gl/LNvpx Add any more items you want discussed there before the telecon. John

Hi all, We will have our BICEP2 / Keck CMB result telecon today at the usual time: Tues, 1 Oct 2013 - 12:00 Eastern, 11:00 Central, 9:00 am Pacific 1-866-890-3820 (toll: 1-334-323-7229) Passcode: 59702175# On last week's call we said this week we would have a review of outstanding "critical path to result" items. We've gotten input by email and on yesterday's analysis call, and yesterday Clem and I attempted to put together an outline for discussion today. Clem promised to add this to telecon notes page here: http://goo.gl/LNvpx Please look at that and feel free to comment on it as it appears. As usual, also add any more items you want discussed to the agenda before the telecon. current agenda in brief--------------------------- 1) Papers Paper I: Instrument - update from Walt Paper II: Beams - update from Abby Motion to adopt Immanuel’s post on coordinate system Paper III: Systematics - update from Chris 2) Computing General - Walt report on problems w/ panlfs, queues, and RC response Simset status - Stefan The remake of the first 99 rlz of type5 with the lensed deprojection template is almost complete. Result of re-spinning the real maps: p3 and gs signals? 3) Discussion--see 1 Oct 2013 Summary of critical path 4) Postings [ Clem ] Quantifying Systematic Impacts: 2013 Sep 24: All-sky convolution (ASC). Some images. (SRH), deferred from last time 2013 Sep 27: DSL mast history and visibility in CMB data (RWO) 2013 Sep 30: Searching for GOES 2 (RWO) 2013 Sep 30: az change cut 2 (JET) 2013 Oct 1: r-limits from simulated systematics (CDS) 2013 Oct 1: Crosstalk deprojection coefficients (CDS) 2013 Oct 1: Bias on deprojection coefficients with no TE (CDS) Consistency tests on our bandpowers: 2013 Sept 27: Twisting the pol angles 2 and comparing the map and spectral jack chi2&sumdevs (CLP) 2013 Sept 30: WMAP EE/TE Comparison (SASK) John

Hi all, We will have our BICEP2 / Keck CMB result telecon today at the usual time: Tues, 8 Oct 2013 - 12:00 Eastern, 11:00 Central, 9:00 am Pacific 1-866-890-3820 (toll: 1-334-323-7229) Passcode: 59702175# I propose before we launch into new postings this week we dedicate some time to agenda item 3, Review of next steps on the first half critical path list we outlined last week, namely systematics assessment. Please look at the agenda and be prepared to comment/report. current agenda in brief--------------------------- 1) Papers Paper I: Instrument - update from Walt Paper II: Beams - update from Abby 2013 Oct 05: Calculations for Beam Mapping in Spherical Coordinates Updated (IDB), quiz on Hairy Ball Theorem Paper III: Systematics - update from Chris B1 3yr paper: http://arxiv.org/abs/1310.1422 2) Computing, general - Walt Generally good this week SLURM not working Monday? panlfs problems/upgrade report: Walt/John Simset status - Stefan http://find.spa.umn.edu/~fliescher/mapStatus/ 3) Discussion--recap items 1-6 on: 1 Oct 2013 Summary of critical path (1. deproj modes) and (2. residuals assessment) - Chris, review next steps from 2013 Oct 1: r-limits from sim systematics - subtraction vs. deproj: diff ellipticity? difpoint? what are next steps? (3. Time-variable/non-linear crosstalk) - Sarah, next steps? (4. Satcom) and (5. pol angle) have new postings--discuss below. (6. Other contaminants) Path to wrapping this up? - Chao-Lin: Roger effect effects? 4) Postings [ Clem ] Deferred postings from last time: 2013 Oct 1: Crosstalk deprojection coefficients (CDS) 2013 Oct 1: Bias on deprojection coefficients with no TE (CDS) 2013 Sept 27: Twisting the pol angles 2 and comparing the map and spectral jack chi2&sumdevs (CLP) New postings: 2013 Oct 05: Twisting the BICEP2 pol angles relative to Keck (GPT) 2013 Oct 7: Single pair maps (CLP) 2013 Oct 7: Satcom: BEH tags with transmitter on (RWO) 2013 Oct 07: Real and sim bandpowers with satcom sensitivity cut (CDS) John

Hi all, We will have our BICEP2 / Keck CMB result telecon today at the usual time: Tues, 22 Oct 2013 - 12:00 Eastern, 11:00 Central, 9:00 am Pacific 1-866-890-3820 (toll: 1-334-323-7229) Passcode: 59702175# Today's discussion will focus on the second half of our Oct 1 Critical Path list, namely consistency measures and results. Trying to fold in input from many of you in the past week, I've put together an discussion outline in today's agenda: http://goo.gl/LNvpx John