December 11-12, 2001
University of California, Santa Cruz
283 Kerr Hall
The GLAST Science working Group meeting in December will feature a day workshop devoted to Pulsar studies in the GLAST era. Steve Thorsett has kindly agreed to organize this workshop and his latest list of speakers is appended below. Our normal SWG meeting will take place on Wednesday the 12th of December
December 11, 2001 - Pulsar Studies in the GLAST era:
Peter Michelson | GLAST: An Introduction | 45 min |
Dave Thompson | Pulsars: EGRET Results and Unanswered Questions | 45 min |
Alice Harding | Acceleration and emission modeling | 30 min |
Jon Arons | Polar Cap Gamma-Ray Emission | 30 min |
Hirotani Kouichi | Gamma-ray Emission from the Outer Magnetosphere: Spectrum vs Location | 15 min |
Matthew Baring | High Field Pulsars and Pulsar Observability from a GLAST Perspective | 20 min |
Maura McLaughlin | Population estimates for GLAST (Thorsett presenting) | 20 min |
Peter Gonthier | Galactic populations of radio and gamma-ray pulsars: the polar cap model | 20 min |
Mallory Roberts | Variable High-Energy Emission from Pulsar Winds | 15 min |
Paul Ray | The EGRET source LSI +61 303 | 15 min |
Zaven Arzoumanian | A new young pulsar near the Gould Belt | 15 min |
Roger Romani | Multiwavelength studies of known and potential gamma-ray pulsars | 30 min |
Ingrid Stairs | Radio Pulsar Targets for GLAST: After the Parkes Survey | 30 min |
Paul Ray | Direct Pulsation Searches in Gamma-Ray Datasets | 30 min |
Zaven Arzoumanian | Radio followup of EGRET and GLAST unidentified sources | 30 min |
Vicki Kaspi | Three Energetic Pulsars Coincident with EGRET Sources | ?? |
December 12
8:30 |
Welcome and Opening Comments Introduction, Review of Agenda |
J. F. Ormes |
8:40 |
Comments from NASA Headquarters Agreements, budget status, issues and concerns, etc |
D. Kniffen |
8:50 |
Comments from DoE Point of View Agreements, budget status, issues and concerns, etc. |
E. Valle |
9:00 | Comments by and/or Questions from non-US participants | |
9:15 | Education initiatives | P. Plait |
9:45 | Break | |
10:00 |
Project Overviews Debris field analysis, deorbit planning, data downlink contact frequency, spacecraft trade studies, impact of special autonomous repointing operations |
L. Citrin |
10:30 |
The Large Area Telescope (LAT) LAT Issues and concerns |
P. Michelson |
11:00 |
The Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (GBM) GBM Issues and concerns |
C. Meegan |
11:30 | Public Relations | N. Gehrels |
11:45 | Preparations of the GLAST Science Plan | N. Gehrels |
12:00 | Lunch | |
1:00 |
LAT/GBM burst studies GBM-LAT interface, realtime on-board repointing decisions and constraints, operations planning and modes update Comments on data requirements for gamma-ray burst studies What to do about TOOs Ð response time, frequency, etc |
C. Meegan S. Ritz B. Dingus |
2:00 | SSC Status and Report of the SSC | D. Band |
2:30 | Break | |
2:45 |
Review of the Program Data Management Plan with a lot of help from: |
J. Ormes D. Band P. Michelson C. Meegan |
4:00 | Next steps to set up Users Group | D. Kniffen |
4:15 | Other issues arising, discussion and Action review | J. Ormes |
5:00 | Adjourn |
Other items discussed at the last meeting were: