Transcript Suggestions from White Papers Received as of 10/06/2014

SUGGESTIONS
From White Papers received as of
10/06/14
LSST FOLLOW-UP
• Keep SOAR for dedicated rapid spectroscopic follow-up
• Buy in to Subaru PFS, or GMACS on GMT, or new instrument on
Gemini for photo-z training
• Set up event broker (marshal) for transients – need protocols,
algorithms, databases
• Grants for LSST follow-up observing, purchase of smaller
telescope time
• Level 3 data products and tools need support
THE
SYSTEM
US needs a vital OIR system - how to implement that?
• Interested observatories offer 10% open access for fed purchase. How to
achieve sign-on?
• Maintain partial federal share of 4m in N.
• Have NOAO act as clearing house for observing coordination
• Revitalize TSIP-like program?
• Trade off observing time on private telescope for public telescope to access
different instruments and avoid duplication of instruments
• Set up an entity that coordinates all of above
• Consider “Open Access Market” for allocating time across system capabilities.
• Break down silos as signified by access to federal and non-federal facilities
• DESI- make sure it happens; buy DESI bright time, arrange community access to
1-3 dark nights/lunation, keep Mayall open till DESI, extend DESI 5 yrs after DES,
use unused fibers during DESI; move DESI to Blanco afterwards
• Fund community access to nights on 20-30 meter class telescopes.
• Provide training and access to optical interferometry facilities
INSTRUMENTATION
• Need wide field low-medium resolution multiplexed
spectroscopy
• Need optical interferometry and polarimetry
• Need multiconjugate AO on large telescopes;
coronography
• Need technology development funds on high risk
instrumentation areas for ELTs
• Need OIR spectroscopy on 4-8m such as KOSKOSM
SOFTWARE AND DATA
• Have data center(s) that provide archiving and
computing capabilities
• Need modern replacement for IRAF with standardized
protocols and expandable software
• Support development of data analysis software that is
fully compatible with various pipelines
TRAINING AND EARLY
CAREER
• Have workshops on astroinformatics and astrostatistics,
data mining, instrumentation, software
• Revitalize undergrad, grad training with holistic
approach to designing, building, testing instruments
and supporting software
• Allow purchase of small-medium telescope time from
grants, or federal purchase of block of telescope time
• Teach more astrostatistics and informatics,
instrumentation, computing