WIYN NCP spectroscopic survey meeting

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Held in B343 Sterling Hall, UW - Madison

Zoom link:   https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/7800277255  

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Analyses to consider

- Bias for HI rich/poor in redshift determination

  • John:  much easier to get redshifts for  galaxies with strong H emission lines   (could see to z 20)
  • check this!   Use HI mass to color relations used in Olivier's forecast paper
  • John could check part of this by looking at efficiency of finding z vs color

- What is the HI mass fraction for which we have the optical redshift? - Frank!

- Albert is plotting Reza's SDSS mocks in order to compare with our own survey

- Gabriela will run/refine her cluster-finding algorithm on Reza's mocks.  Hopefully, can comment on this in paper (unlikely to form a new paper)

- X-ray clusters.   Reza has checked ROSAT;   no confirmed clusters in our region.  (Sources in our region are identified as AGN.)

- Check SZ-filtered Planck maps for possible SZ detection - beyond scope of this paper

- ask Dan McCammon; Reza's new lab colleagues about e-Rosita x-ray clusters (possible future paper).   Dan will join us for dinner on Friday.

 

Writing/ editing tasks

- Note in introduction of paper

  • that other surveys have looked/are looking at NCP:     LOFAR, 21CMA
  • possibility of using catalog to find clusters

- use Durbala paper as example of a 'small' survey to follow for our own paper

- check cost of publishing in AJ  (Durbala is in AJ).  < $1K    (< 30 'quanta') - looks like Albert can pay this

- Paper writing/review/ integration of John's report

- Reza will insert John's text into draft paper;   refine organization of the paper first, then copy/paste pieces of John's document. 

 - All will carefully edit each section by assigned person below,  under 'supervision'.

2.  The Survey - John will supervise all of Section 2

2.1 Target Selection - Frank

2.2. Instrument Setup - Greg
2.3. Data Reduction - Greg


3. PRESENT THE CATALOG - Albert will supervise all of Section 3
3.1. Redshift distribution - Albert
3.2. Selection Function - Reza
3.3. Analyze structure present - Reza, Albert
3.4. Impact on future NCP surveys - Peter

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