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Cosmic Origins Program Analysis Group (COPAG)

January 2015 COPAG Activities

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Sunday, January 4
09:00 AM – 11:00 AMCOR SAG #9 – Spitzer Observations in Support of JWST (Daniela Calzetti and David Leisawitz)

Tentative Agenda
  • 9:00 AM SAG Charter, composition, plans, timeline [PDF]
  • 9:15 AM Science topics identified to date [PDF]
  • 9:45-11:00 AM Discussion and suggestions from community
Room 306
09:00 AM – 11:30 AMCOR UV/Vis SIG (SIG #2): Future Science and Technology Needs for UV/Vis Wavelengths (Paul Scowen)
More up-to-date information at http://sig2.asu.edu

Tentative Agenda
  • Introductions - 9:00 AM
  • UV-optical Science Overview - 9:10 AM
  • UV-optical Technology Overview - 9:55 AM
  • The view from NASA HQ - 10:40 AM
  • Comments and Questions - 11:10 AM
  • Next Steps and Close - 11:20 AM
Room 304
09:30 AM – 11:30 AMCOR FIR SIG (SIG 1): Far-IR Science and Technology Needs (Paul Goldsmith and David Leisawitz)

Speakers
  • Dave Leisawitz (NASA GSFC) –
    The "FIR Surveyor" in NASA's Astrophysics Roadmap, May 2014 community workshop summary and followup study [PDF]

  • Paul Goldsmith (Caltech JPL) –
    Single-aperture Far-IR Telescopes: Measurement Capabilities and Trade Space [PDF]

  • Dave Leisawitz (NASA GSFC) –
    Far-IR Interferometers: Measurement Capabilities and Trade Space [PDF]

  • Maxime Rizzo (Univ. of Maryland) –
    The Balloon Experimental Twin Telescope for Infrared Interferometry (BETTII) [PDF]

  • Matt Bradford (Caltech JPL) –
    Status and plans for the Space Infrared Telescope for Cosmology and Astrophysics (SPICA) mission [PDF]

  • Erick Young (USRA) –
    The upGREAT instrument on SOFIA [PDF]

  • Imran Mehdi (Caltech JPL) – [PDF]
    Advanced Technologies for Future Heterodyne Missions

  • Chris Walker (Univ. Arizona) – [PDF]
    The Stratospheric Terahertz Observatory (STO) and the Galactic / Xtragalactic ULDB Spectroscopic / Stratospheric Terahertz Observatory (GUSTO)
Room 309
 
11:30 AM – 12:30 PMBreak — lunch
 
12:30 PM – 2:00 PMPlenary session, COPAG/PhysPAG/ExoPAG,
with Paul Hertz

  • Presentation [PDF]
  • Astrophysics Division White Paper [PDF]

Room 6B
 
2:00 PM – 5:00 PMCOPAG + ExoPAG

Room 6A
 
  • 2:00 PM - "Beyond JWST" Study
    (Tumlinson [PDF]/Redding [PDF])

  • 2:30 PM - Community Input/Open Mic [PDF]

  • 3:00 PM - Exo-S (Domagal-Goldman) [PDF]

  • 3:30 PM - Exo-C (Stapelfeldt) [PDF]

  • 4:00 PM - COPAG SAG #6—COR science enabled by WFIRST Coronograph (Ebbets) [PDF]

  • 4:30 PM - COPAG SAG #8—COR science enabled by WFIRST Archive (Heap) [PDF]
 
 
Wednesday, January 7
10:00 AM – 11:30 AMNASA's Astrophysics PAGs Special Session [PDF]Room 606
12:45 PM – 1:45 PMNASA Town Hall MeetingRoom 6E

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