General:
- New SSG members
VLASS News:
- Observing and data processing status: Amy Kimball and Mark Lacy
- TBD
- Science highlights:
- New POSSUM paper (synergy with VLASS polarimetry!)
- Events:
- Conferences:
- Rare GEMS in Big Data (Kate will give a talk)
- Hotwiring the Transient Universe (Dillon submitted an abstract)
Greg talking on radio tools - SPARCS (Kristina will give a remote talk on VLASS, Pallavi will talk about spectral modeling with radio surveys)
- HEAD meeting? (Greg, Kate will be there; Kate will highlight VLASS)
- CASCA 2024 (TO) - Canadian Astronomical Society
Greg put in a late abstract on radio surveys - AAS 224 - Yjan Gordon organizing an informal meet-up, Brian Kent and
Mark LacyJurgen Ott will be at the meeting - ML for Astrophysics - ?
- IAU General Assembly (Mark will present a talk on VLASS in Galaxies & Cosmologies session; )
- ADASS meeting will be in Malta in November. Please express what astro/computing topics you would like showcased at the meeting in Malta: https://www.tricider.com/brainstorming/2URcLLLvi4t
- HEACOSS-24, Yerevan Oct 2024 - ML giving a talk on radio surveys.
- Tidal disruption events and nuclear transients: Entering the data rich era (https://sites.google.com/view/tdes-crete2024/home?authuser=0) (2-6 Sept., Crete). Charlotte will present on changing-look AGN (including VLASS data).
- Talk: “VLASS Imaging Update” - Juergen Ott
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VLASS Epoch 4Deadline for co-author contributions is April 22.
- The proposal will be submitted to Tony Beasley on April 30.
Future meetings: (subject to change; check your email/Slack for updates)
- SSG: May 13 (tentative) at 1pm EDT / 11am MDT / 17:00 UTC
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Reference material:
- Terms of reference document: pdf
- VLASS Slack workspace and SSG channel (contact Bryan Gaensler)
- Confluence page