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- VLASS News:
Observing and data processing status: Amy Kimball and Mark Lacy
- 3.1 now 99% QL imaged.
- Events:
- ADASS (Astronomical Data and Software Systems) Conference - November in Tucson, AZ (abstracts for oral presentations due September 1)
- Science at Low Frequencies (SALF) meeting - Amsterdam in December, hybrid, abstract deadline - 18th of August (but please register ASAP if you think you will attend in person).
- MARLAM Oct 12th
- “Unveiling the dynamic universe: cosmic streams in the era of Rubin” Dec 11-15, Puerto Varas, Chile, https://cosmicstreams.cl
- AAS New Orleans
- April 2024: Massive Black Holes in the first billion years, Ireland: https://www.ucc.ie/en/physics/mbhconference/
- May 2024:Cosmic Magnetism in the Pre-SKA Era, Japan http://ska-jp.org/ws/SKAJP_MAGWS2024
- July 2024: AGN populations across continents and cosmic time, Durham https://www.agnacrosscontinents.org/
- IAU - summer of 2024, Cape Town
- Updates from working groups (please send by email/Slack or add here directly):
- Extragalactic - Kate Alexander, Heinz Andernach
- Galactic - Laurant Loinard, Joe Callingham
- Transients - Gregg Hallinan, Greg Sivakoff
- Polarization - Jennifer West, Lerato
- Commensal - Wendy Peters, Chenoa Tremblay
- Data Products - Dillon Dong, Erik Rosolowsky
- Science communication - Brian Kent, Eric Murphy
- We welcome short science articles and features from community members - let your collaborators know.
- EPO - Jacob Noel-Storr, Summer Ash
- Other topics?
- VLASS Epoch 4
- Science pitch write-up (Mark Lacy): here
- Overleaf draft of SSG's white paper on VLASS Epoch 4 - Kristina Nyland
- White paper plan: have working group chairs lead and organize input on their respective topics
- Chenoa and Joe Lazio working on making more quantitative arguments for fast transients/SETI, looking at Ep 3 data.
- Any SSG member should feel free to invite people to contribute to the case.
- Community freedback solicitation:
- NRAO eNews article sent Sept 7th
- Summer AAS VLASS presentations
- Other ideas:
- Social media (LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, etc. - individual SSG members would need to spearhead this; NRAO EPO does not solicit science content on social media)
- Especially in the more fractured current social media landscape.
- Zoom webinar on new VLASS opportunities?
- Action Item: further follow-up on this at next meeting
- Social media (LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, etc. - individual SSG members would need to spearhead this; NRAO EPO does not solicit science content on social media)
- Timeline:
- Kristina will write-out a formal timeline for completing the proposal.
- Kristina will set-up a poll for one or more working group chair meetings starting in late October. Working group chairs will be asked to solicit input from other members of the SSG/broader community and compose scientific summaries of the opportunities/impact of a 4th epoch of VLASS.
- Kristina will re-organize the current draft so that it's better suited for contributions from the working group chairs.
- Timeline:
- SE Image prioritization
- SSG/community interest in this?
- Input on request form?
- Chenoa had feedback requesting prioritization of overlap with existing surveys.
- Joe has a list of radio stars, sent to Steve and Mark.
- ML priortizing Stripe 82 (one of Joe's stars in that); North Ecliptic Cap, any other favorites?
- Future meetings: (subject to change; check your email/Slack for updates)
- Nov 6th (clashes with ADASS) or 13th?, at 1pm EST / 11am MST / 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