Name: Calibration and Standardization of Large Surveys and Missions in Astronomy and Astrophysics
Start: 2012-04-16T08:00:00-05:00
End: 2012-04-19T18:20:00-05:00
Location: Fermilab

Calibration and Standardization of Large Surveys and Missions in Astronomy and Astrophysics

from Monday, April 16, 2012 (8:00 AM) to Thursday, April 19, 2012 (6:20 PM)

Monday, April 16, 2012

8:00 AM Registration
Registration
8:00 AM - 8:40 AM
8:40 AM
8:40 AM - 10:00 AM
Room: WH1W
Contributions

8:40 AM Welcome - Dan Bauer (Fermilab) Others

8:50 AM Logistics - Douglas Tucker (FNAL)

9:00 AM The Science of Calibration - Stephen Kent (Fermilab)

9:30 AM Monitoring atmospheric water vapour at ESO's Paranal observatory - Florian Kerber (European Southern Observatory)
10:00 AM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM
10:30 AM
10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Room: WH1W
Contributions

10:30 AM Comments on Optical Photometry and the Generation of Standard Stars - Arlo Landolt (LSU)

11:30 AM Standardization and calibration in the variability time domain - Christiaan Sterken (University of Brussels)
12:00 PM Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
1:00 PM
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Room: WH1W
Contributions

1:00 PM Earth's Atmosphere and Climate - Bruce Wielicki (NASA)

2:00 PM Using GPS to Measure NIR Extinction By Water Vapor - Cullen Blake (Princeton University)

2:20 PM How the Evil Atmosphere Affects Ground-based Astronomy, and How to Correct for It - John McGraw (University of New Mexico)

2:40 PM aTmcam: A Simple Atmosphere Transmission Monitoring Camera For Sub One Percent Photometric Precision - Ting Li (Texas A&M University)
3:00 PM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM
3:30 PM
3:30 PM - 5:10 PM
Room: WH1W
Contributions

3:30 PM Addressing the photometric calibration challenge: explicit determination of the instrumental response and atmospheric transmission functions - Christopher Stubbs (Harvard University)

4:00 PM A Balloon-Borne Light Source for Precision Photometric Calibration - Maxwell Fagin (Dartmouth College)

4:20 PM DECal: A Spectrophotometric Calibration System For DECam. - Jennifer L. Marshall (Texas A&M University)

4:40 PM Precision Photometry via Man-made Light Sources, for Optical and for Microwave Astronomy - Justin Albert (University of Victoria)
5:10 PM
5:10 PM - 6:00 PM
Room: Atrium
Contributions

5:10 PM The Gaia-ESO survey astrophysical calibration - Elena Pancino (INAF - Bologna Observatory)

5:10 PM Assessing SDSS spectroscopy via kinematics - Andrei Dambis (Sternberg Astronomical Institute)

5:10 PM Cloud Computing with Context Cameras - Andrew Pickles (LCOGT Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope) Wayne Rosing (LCOGT)

5:10 PM Model-Atmosphere Spectra of Spectrophotometric Standard Stars - Access via the Virtual Observatory Service TheoSSA - Thomas Rauch (Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Kepler Center for Astro and Particle Physics, Eberhard Karls University, Tübingen, Germany)

5:10 PM DA-Type White Dwarfs: Soft X-ray Standards for the Calibration of X-ray Instruments - Thomas Rauch (Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Kepler Center for Astro and Particle Physics, Eberhard Karls University, Tübingen, Germany)
6:00 PM Reception
Reception
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Tuesday, April 17, 2012
8:45 AM
8:45 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: WH1W
Contributions

8:45 AM Announcements

9:00 AM The Flux Calibration of Gaia - Elena Pancino (INAF - Bologna Observatory)

10:00 AM Calibration of the Far-infrared and Sub-millimetre Instruments of the Herschel Space Observatory - Anthony Marston (ESA)
10:30 AM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
11:00 AM
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Room: WH1W
Contributions

11:00 AM Defining High-Energy Calibration Standards: IACHEC (International Astronomical Consortium for High-Energy Calibration) - Herman Marshall (MIT Kavli Institute)

11:30 AM Effect of Calibration Errors on Cosmological Parameter Estimates - Dragan Huterer (University of Michigan)
12:00 PM Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
1:00 PM
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Room: WH1W
Contributions

1:00 PM Calibration of the Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) - Jeff Mangum (National Radio Astronomy Observatory)

2:00 PM An Absolute Flux Density Scale from 1 to 50 GHz - Bryan Butler (NRAO)

2:30 PM Photometric calibration of the Kilo Degree Survey (KiDS) - Gijs Verdoes Kleijn (OmegaCEN / Kapteyn Astronomical Institute, University of Groningen)
3:00 PM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM
3:30 PM
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Room: WH1W
Contributions

3:30 PM Photometric Calibration Strategy of the Dark Energy Survey - Douglas Tucker (Fermilab)

4:00 PM PreCam, the Precursor to the Dark Energy Camera: Instrumentation and First Results - Kyler Kuehn (Argonne National Laboratory)

4:20 PM PreCam a step towards the Photometric Calibration of the Dark Energy Survey - Sahar Allam (Fermilab)

4:40 PM Calibrating the PAU Survey's 46 Filters - Anne Bauer (IEEC/CSIC)
5:00 PM

5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Room: Atrium
Wednesday, April 18, 2012
8:45 AM
8:45 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: WH1W
Contributions

8:45 AM Announcements

9:00 AM High-Precision Wavelength Calibration - Ronald Holzwarth (MPQ & Menlo)

10:00 AM The CALIFA survey - Bernd Husemann (Leibniz-Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam)
10:30 AM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
11:00 AM
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Room: WH1W
Contributions

11:00 AM Calibration of the Bright Sky with APASS - Arne Henden (AAVSO)

11:20 AM Lyra mission: establishing a standard system for stellar photometry - Aleksey Mironov (Sternberg astronomical institute of Moscow Lomonosov State University) Andrei Dambis (Sternberg Astronomical Institute)
12:00 PM Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
1:00 PM
1:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: WH1W
Contributions

1:00 PM SI-Traceable Calibrations of Celestial Objects - Claire Cramer (NIST)

2:00 PM A Path to NIST Calibrated Stars over the Dome of the Sky - Peter Zimmer (University of New Mexico)

2:20 PM Experience with SDSS SN Calibration - John Marriner (FNAL)

2:40 PM Calibration and inter-calibration of the SNLS and SDSS-II supernova survey - Marc Betoule (LPNHE CNRS IN2P3)

3:00 PM SNDice: a Calibration System designed for Wide Field Imagers - Nicolas Regnault (LPNHE (Paris))
3:30 PM Group Photo
Group Photo
3:30 PM - 3:40 PM

3:40 PM Break: View Posters, Attend Fermilab Colloquium, Return to Hotel, etc.
Break: View Posters, Attend Fermilab Colloquium, Return to Hotel, etc.
3:40 PM - 6:30 PM

6:30 PM Conference Dinner
Conference Dinner
6:30 PM - 9:00 PM
Thursday, April 19, 2012
8:45 AM
8:45 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: WH1W
Contributions

8:45 AM Announcements

9:00 AM The International Celestial Reference Frame System (ICRS) - Ed Fomalont (NRAO)

10:00 AM Calibration strategy for the SkyMapper Survey - Mike Bessell (RSAA, ANU)
10:30 AM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
11:00 AM
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Room: WH1W
Contributions

11:00 AM Spectrophotometry in Space: HST/WFC3 a case study - Susana Deustua (stsci)

11:30 AM Photometric Calibration for the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) - Lynne Jones (University of Washington) Tim Axelrod (LSST)
12:00 PM Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
1:00 PM
1:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: WH1W
Contributions

1:00 PM Panchromatic Calibration of Astronomical Observations with State-of-the-Art White Dwarf Model Atmospheres - Thomas Rauch (Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Kepler Center for Astro and Particle Physics, Eberhard Karls University, Tübingen, Germany)

2:00 PM From Hubble's NGSL to Absolute Fluxes - Sara Heap (NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center)

2:30 PM ACCESS: Status, Calibration Strategy, and Design Performance - Mary Elizabeth Kaiser (Johns Hopkins University)

2:50 PM Improvements to the absolute photometric calibration of IRAC - Sean Carey (Spitzer Science Center / IPAC)

3:10 PM Calibration plan for J-PAS and J-PLUS surveys. - Nicolas Gruel (Centro de Estudios de Física del Cosmos de Aragón (ceFca))
3:30 PM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM
4:00 PM
4:00 PM - 5:15 PM
Room: WH1W
Contributions

4:00 PM SkyProbe: Real-Time Precision Monitoring, in the Optical, of the Absolute Atmospheric Absorption on the Telescope's Science and Calibration Fields - Jean-Charles Cuillandre (Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope)

4:15 PM Conference Wrapup - Susana Deustua (STSCI)