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, 16 April 2012 (08:00) to Thursday, 19 April 2012 (18:20)

Monday, 16 April 2012

08:00 Registration
Registration
08:00 - 08:40
08:40
08:40 - 10:00
Room: WH1W
Contributions

08:40 Welcome - Dan Bauer (Fermilab) Others

08:50 Logistics - Douglas Tucker (FNAL)

09:00 The Science of Calibration - Stephen Kent (Fermilab)

09:30 Monitoring atmospheric water vapour at ESO's Paranal observatory - Florian Kerber (European Southern Observatory)
10:00 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:00 - 10:30
10:30
10:30 - 12:00
Room: WH1W
Contributions

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

11:30 Standardization and calibration in the variability time domain - Christiaan Sterken (University of Brussels)
12:00 Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:00 - 13:00
13:00
13:00 - 15:00
Room: WH1W
Contributions

13:00 Earth's Atmosphere and Climate - Bruce Wielicki (NASA)

14:00 Using GPS to Measure NIR Extinction By Water Vapor - Cullen Blake (Princeton University)

14:20 How the Evil Atmosphere Affects Ground-based Astronomy, and How to Correct for It - John McGraw (University of New Mexico)

14:40 aTmcam: A Simple Atmosphere Transmission Monitoring Camera For Sub One Percent Photometric Precision - Ting Li (Texas A&M University)
15:00 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
15:00 - 15:30
15:30
15:30 - 17:10
Room: WH1W
Contributions

15:30 Addressing the photometric calibration challenge: explicit determination of the instrumental response and atmospheric transmission functions - Christopher Stubbs (Harvard University)

16:00 A Balloon-Borne Light Source for Precision Photometric Calibration - Maxwell Fagin (Dartmouth College)

16:20 DECal: A Spectrophotometric Calibration System For DECam. - Jennifer L. Marshall (Texas A&M University)

16:40 Precision Photometry via Man-made Light Sources, for Optical and for Microwave Astronomy - Justin Albert (University of Victoria)
17:10
17:10 - 18:00
Room: Atrium
Contributions

17:10 The Gaia-ESO survey astrophysical calibration - Elena Pancino (INAF - Bologna Observatory)

17:10 Assessing SDSS spectroscopy via kinematics - Andrei Dambis (Sternberg Astronomical Institute)

17:10 Cloud Computing with Context Cameras - Andrew Pickles (LCOGT Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope) Wayne Rosing (LCOGT)

17:10 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)

17:10 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)
18:00 Reception
Reception
18:00 - 20:00
Tuesday, 17 April 2012
08:45
08:45 - 10:30
Room: WH1W
Contributions

08:45 Announcements

09:00 The Flux Calibration of Gaia - Elena Pancino (INAF - Bologna Observatory)

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

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

11:30 Effect of Calibration Errors on Cosmological Parameter Estimates - Dragan Huterer (University of Michigan)
12:00 Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:00 - 13:00
13:00
13:00 - 15:00
Room: WH1W
Contributions

13:00 Calibration of the Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) - Jeff Mangum (National Radio Astronomy Observatory)

14:00 An Absolute Flux Density Scale from 1 to 50 GHz - Bryan Butler (NRAO)

14:30 Photometric calibration of the Kilo Degree Survey (KiDS) - Gijs Verdoes Kleijn (OmegaCEN / Kapteyn Astronomical Institute, University of Groningen)
15:00 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
15:00 - 15:30
15:30
15:30 - 17:00
Room: WH1W
Contributions

15:30 Photometric Calibration Strategy of the Dark Energy Survey - Douglas Tucker (Fermilab)

16:00 PreCam, the Precursor to the Dark Energy Camera: Instrumentation and First Results - Kyler Kuehn (Argonne National Laboratory)

16:20 PreCam a step towards the Photometric Calibration of the Dark Energy Survey - Sahar Allam (Fermilab)

16:40 Calibrating the PAU Survey's 46 Filters - Anne Bauer (IEEC/CSIC)
17:00

17:00 - 18:00
Room: Atrium
Wednesday, 18 April 2012
08:45
08:45 - 10:30
Room: WH1W
Contributions

08:45 Announcements

09:00 High-Precision Wavelength Calibration - Ronald Holzwarth (MPQ & Menlo)

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

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

11:20 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 Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:00 - 13:00
13:00
13:00 - 15:30
Room: WH1W
Contributions

13:00 SI-Traceable Calibrations of Celestial Objects - Claire Cramer (NIST)

14:00 A Path to NIST Calibrated Stars over the Dome of the Sky - Peter Zimmer (University of New Mexico)

14:20 Experience with SDSS SN Calibration - John Marriner (FNAL)

14:40 Calibration and inter-calibration of the SNLS and SDSS-II supernova survey - Marc Betoule (LPNHE CNRS IN2P3)

15:00 SNDice: a Calibration System designed for Wide Field Imagers - Nicolas Regnault (LPNHE (Paris))
15:30 Group Photo
Group Photo
15:30 - 15:40

15:40 Break: View Posters, Attend Fermilab Colloquium, Return to Hotel, etc.
Break: View Posters, Attend Fermilab Colloquium, Return to Hotel, etc.
15:40 - 18:30

18:30 Conference Dinner
Conference Dinner
18:30 - 21:00
Thursday, 19 April 2012
08:45
08:45 - 10:30
Room: WH1W
Contributions

08:45 Announcements

09:00 The International Celestial Reference Frame System (ICRS) - Ed Fomalont (NRAO)

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

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

11:30 Photometric Calibration for the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) - Lynne Jones (University of Washington) Tim Axelrod (LSST)
12:00 Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:00 - 13:00
13:00
13:00 - 15:30
Room: WH1W
Contributions

13:00 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)

14:00 From Hubble's NGSL to Absolute Fluxes - Sara Heap (NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center)

14:30 ACCESS: Status, Calibration Strategy, and Design Performance - Mary Elizabeth Kaiser (Johns Hopkins University)

14:50 Improvements to the absolute photometric calibration of IRAC - Sean Carey (Spitzer Science Center / IPAC)

15:10 Calibration plan for J-PAS and J-PLUS surveys. - Nicolas Gruel (Centro de Estudios de Física del Cosmos de Aragón (ceFca))
15:30 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
15:30 - 16:00
16:00
16:00 - 17:15
Room: WH1W
Contributions

16:00 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)

16:15 Conference Wrapup - Susana Deustua (STSCI)