The First Annual CCAT-prime Collaboration Meeting
Program (All times EDT)
Tuesday, April 7, 2020 (In conjunction with Board Meeting)
10:00AM Introduction and Overview of Meeting Goals (Fich)
10:15AM Overview and Status of Telescope and Facility (Herter)
10:45AM Overview and Status of Instrumentation (Niemack Choi, Vavagiakis, Gallardo, Hubmayr/NIST, Duell, Cothard, Huber, Zou, Abe, Nikola, Henke, Chapman)
11:30AM CHAI Update (Graf)
12:00PM BREAK
12:15PM Data Reduction
Rosolowsky: Plans for the process/approach (10 min)
Choi: Data reduction for the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (10 min)
Discussion (10 min)
12:45PM Overview of and Status of SWG activities including Surveys Strategies (Stacey)
1:00PM Continuation/Completion of Board Meeting. **End of Day for other participants**
Wednesday, April 8, 2020
10:00AM Tracing the Epoch of Ionization through Line Intensity Mapping (Coordinators: Stacey, Riechers)
Riechers: Introduction and Overview (10 min)
Chung: CCAT-prime [CII] intensity mapping signal predictions (10 min)
Karoumpis: CCAT-prime [CII] and [OIII] intensity mapping predictions (10 min)
Breysse: CCAT-prime intensity mapping AGN/SF feedback (10 min)
10:45PM Galaxy and Cluster Formation (Coordinators: Battaglia, Basu)
Battaglia: SWG introduction (4 min)
Basu: SZ spectral science overview, rSZ for cosmology & astrophysics, kSZ biases from the CIB (8 min)
Charmatent: Description of Bonn sky model, first applications and how to use (8 min)
Amodeo: Dust in tSZ cross-correlations (8 min)
Erler: SZ forecasts for CCAT-prime, combination with eROSITA (8 min)
Discussion (9 min)
11:30AM Tracing Dusty Star Formation over Cosmic Time (Coordinators: Chapman, Aravena)
Chapman: Lessons from Herschel and SCUBA-2 (15 min, incl. 8 min discussion)
Aravena: How to fill in the scientific missing pieces (15 min, incl. 8 min discussion)
12:15PM BREAK
12:30PM Characterizing foregrounds for CMB observations (Coordinators: Niemack, Choi)
Niemack: Overview of CCAT plans and motivation for measuring CMB foregrounds (10 min)
Choi: CMB foregrounds and comparison to Planck measurements (10 min)
Komatsu: Improving constraints on primordial B-modes by measuring high frequency polarization (10 min)
Discussion (~10 min)
1:15PM CMB Constraints on cosmological Rayleigh Scattering (Coordinator: Meerburg)
Meerburg: Introduction (5 min)
Meyers: Potential benefits, parameter constraints (10 min)
Beringue + Zhu: Forecasting (20 – 30 min)
Discussion (Meerburg): Experimental and data requirements (10 – 15 min)
2:00PM End of Day
Thursday, April 9, 2020
10:00AM New Windows into Time Domain Astrophysics (Coordinator: Johnstone)
Scott: An Introduction to Time-Domain Studies
Johnstone: Sub-mm Variable Protostellar Sources: How to Observe and What We Learn (8 min)
Duell: Transient Lessons from ACT (8 min)
Sivakoff: Time-Domain Studies Program with CCAT-prime (8 min)
10:30AM Tracing Star Formation in the Galaxy and Nearby Galaxies (Coordinators: Simon, Stutz, Nikola)
Simon: Tracing Cloud and Star Formation in the Milky Way and Nearby Galaxies with Heterodyne Spectroscopy (45 min)
11:15AM Magnetic Fields and Galactic Science (Coordinator: Fissel)
Fissel: Overview of CCAT-p plans and what can be done for Galactic polarization measurements with the different surveys (10 min)
Clark: Studying magnetic fields and turbulence in the diffuse ISM and on galactic scales (15 min)
Fissel: CCAT-p studies of the role played by magnetic fields in star formation (10 min)
Discussion: (~10 min)
12:00PM BREAK
12:15PM Synergies – Other compelling science? Further Discussions? (Fich)
Percival: DESI (10 min)
Hudson: Euclid (10 min)
Hlozek: LSST (10 min)
Niemack: Simons Observatory and CMB-S4 (10 min)
Stein: Sims (10 min)
1:15PM Workshop Wrap-up: Summary and Future Directions (Stacey)
1:30PM End of Day
Friday, April 10, 2020 — Breakout Discussion Sessions if requested by Session Leaders)
10:00AM Astrophysical Constraints provided by Rayleigh Scattering
10:15AM Galaxy and Cluster Formation
10:30AM Magnetic Fields and Galactic Science (including variable protostars)
- Observing strategies (particularly for small maps)
- Data reduction (time-domain science, large scale polarization signal recovery)
- Synergies between the different Galactic science cases
New Windows into Time Domain
- Incorporating time-domain into ambitious extragalactic surveys
- Survey design, scanning strategies vs. cadence, data handling etc.
- Roll of CCAT-prime as a follow-up telescope
11:00AM Tracing Star Formation in the Galaxy and Nearby Galaxies
- General questions people may have
- Discuss how to complete the science working group and distribute work loads
- Regular telecons
- How to get started with the definition of the surveys
- First science and first papers: what can we define already now?
11:15AM Tracing the Epoch of Ionization through Line Intensity Mapping
11:30AM Tracing Dusty Star Formation over Cosmic Time
- deep field needs, synergies and strategies
11:45AM Characterizing foregrounds for CMB observations
12:00pm Coordinating with other projects and work on sims
UNTIL DONE