Precision Astronomy with Fully Depleted CCDs

18 Nov 2013, 08:00 → 19 Nov 2013, 17:00 US/Eastern

Large Seminar Room (Physics Department)

WORKSHOP AGENDA

The Workshop on Precision Astronomy with Fully Depleted CCDs will focus on topics of making precision astronomical measurements of flux (photometry), position (astrometry) and shapes (weak lensing) with thick, deep-depleted CCD detectors. Impact of sensor related effects on the Dark Energy science will be addressed through presentations and discussions.

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Monday, 18 November

08:00 → 09:00 Registration

09:00 → 09:10 Welcome

Speaker: Berndt Mueller (Associate Laboratory Director for Nuclear & Particle Physics)

Slides Cosmo_Welcome.pptx

09:05 → 09:35 Introduction

Speaker: Chris Stubbs (Harvard)

Slides Stubbs_intro2.pptx

09:35 → 10:05 Precision Astrometry and Photometry from Pan-STARRS 1

Speaker: Gene Magnier (University of Hawaii)

Slides magnier.pdf

10:05 → 10:35 On-sky performance and calibration of the Dark Energy Camera

Speaker: Gary Bernstein (Penn)

Slides Bernstein2+1.pdf

10:35 → 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 → 11:30 Hyper Suprime-Cam and HPK CCDs

Speaker: Satoshi Miyazaki (NAOJ)

Slides 20131118BNLMiyazaki.pdf

11:30 → 12:30 Discussion and workshop photo

12:30 → 13:30 Lunch

13:30 → 14:00 LSST sensors: how will dark energy be constrained with lensed photo-conversions?

Speaker: Andy Rasmussen (SLAC)

Slides precision_astro_sensors_bnl_arasmus_131118_v1.pptx

14:00 → 14:30 Challenges for precision shape measurements

Speaker: Michael Jarvis (Penn)

Slides Jarvis_2013_1118.pdf

14:30 → 15:00 PhoSim: A Code to Simulate Telescopes One Photon at a Time

Speaker: John Peterson (Purdue)

Slides peterson_precision_astro_bnl.pptx

15:00 → 15:30 Coffee Break

15:30 → 16:00 Consequences of thick CCDs on Image Processing

Speaker: Robert Lupton (Princeton)

Slides lupton.pdf

16:00 → 16:30 Shear estimators in Weak Lensing

Speaker: Erin Sheldon (BNL)

Slides 2013-bnl-sensor.pdf

16:30 → 17:30 Discussion

17:30 → 18:30 Poster Session

Slides PosterSession.pdf TwoSlidesAllPosters_v1.pdf

19:00 → 22:00 Workshop Dinner

www.blackwellsrestaurant.com/index.html

Tuesday, 19 November

09:00 → 09:20 Emulating Weak Gravitational Lensing Measurements in the Lab

Speaker: Chaz Shapiro (JPL)

Slides ShapiroC_2013_BNL.pptx

09:20 → 09:40 Using a Fast Beam (f/1.2) to Characterize Thick CCD's

Speaker: Kirk Gilmore (SLAC)

Slides dkg.f1.2.pdf

09:40 → 10:00 Tree rings and other sensor effects in Dark Energy Camera

Speaker: Andres Plazas Malagon (BNL)

Slides PLAZAS_BNL_CCD_WORKSHOP_DEC13_TREE_RINGS.pdf

10:00 → 10:30 Coffee Break

10:30 → 11:00 The brighter-fatter effect and pixel correlations

Speaker: Pierre Astier (LPNHE, Paris)

Slides astier-brighter-fatter.pdf

11:00 → 11:30 Testing the Shrinking Pixel Hypothesis

Speaker: Roger Smith (Caltech)

Slides 2013_Cosmo2013_shrinking_pixels.pptx

11:30 → 12:20 Discussion

12:20 → 13:30 Lunch

13:30 → 14:00 Fully Depleted Imager Technology at MIT Lincoln Laboratory

Speaker: Vyshi Suntharalingam (Lincoln Lab)

Slides 2013_11_19_BNL_Suntha_v2.pptx

Video OTCCD_Redux_final.wmv

14:00 → 14:30 Physics of depleted CCDs

Speaker: Steve Holland (LBNL)

Slides holland_fdccd_workshop_bnl_19Nov2013.pptx

14:30 → 15:00 Dark Matter searches with fully depleted CCDs

Speaker: Juan Estrada (Fermilab)

Slides estrada_BNL_Nov2013.pdf

15:00 → 15:30 Spectral extraction of BOSS fully-depleted CCD data

Speaker: Julien Guy (LBNL)

Slides guy-precision-astronomy-workshop.pdf

15:30 → 16:00 Coffee Break

16:00 → 16:40 Summary

Speaker: Jim Gunn (Princeton)

Slides CCDsummary.pdf

16:40 → 16:50 Concluding Remarks