Precision Astronomy with Fully Depleted CCDs

US/Eastern
Large Seminar Room (Physics Department)

Large Seminar Room

Physics Department

Brookhaven National Laboratory Upton, NY 11973 USA
Description
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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Administrative Assistant
  • Monday, 18 November
    • 08:00 09:00
      Registration 1h Physics Department, Seminar Lounge

      Physics Department, Seminar Lounge

      Physics Department

      Brookhaven National Laboratory Upton, NY 11973 USA
    • 09:00 09:10
      Welcome 10m Large Seminar Room

      Large Seminar Room

      Physics Department

      Brookhaven National Laboratory Upton, NY 11973 USA
      Speaker: Berndt Mueller (Associate Laboratory Director for Nuclear & Particle Physics)
      Slides
    • 09:05 09:35
      Introduction 30m Large Seminar Room

      Large Seminar Room

      Physics Department

      Brookhaven National Laboratory Upton, NY 11973 USA
      Speaker: Chris Stubbs (Harvard)
      Slides
    • 09:35 10:05
      Precision Astrometry and Photometry from Pan-STARRS 1 30m Large Seminar Room

      Large Seminar Room

      Physics Department

      Brookhaven National Laboratory Upton, NY 11973 USA
      Speaker: Gene Magnier (University of Hawaii)
      Slides
    • 10:05 10:35
      On-sky performance and calibration of the Dark Energy Camera 30m Large Seminar Room

      Large Seminar Room

      Physics Department

      Brookhaven National Laboratory Upton, NY 11973 USA
      Speaker: Gary Bernstein (Penn)
      Slides
    • 10:35 11:00
      Coffee Break 25m Seminar Lounge

      Seminar Lounge

      Physics Department

    • 11:00 11:30
      Hyper Suprime-Cam and HPK CCDs 30m Large Seminar Room

      Large Seminar Room

      Physics Department

      Brookhaven National Laboratory Upton, NY 11973 USA
      Speaker: Satoshi Miyazaki (NAOJ)
      Slides
    • 11:30 12:30
      Discussion and workshop photo 1h Large Seminar Room

      Large Seminar Room

      Physics Department

      Brookhaven National Laboratory Upton, NY 11973 USA
    • 12:30 13:30
      Lunch 1h Building 488 (Berkner Hall)

      Building 488

      Berkner Hall

    • 13:30 14:00
      LSST sensors: how will dark energy be constrained with lensed photo-conversions? 30m Large Seminar Room

      Large Seminar Room

      Physics Department

      Brookhaven National Laboratory Upton, NY 11973 USA
      Speaker: Andy Rasmussen (SLAC)
      Slides
    • 14:00 14:30
      Challenges for precision shape measurements 30m Large Seminar Room

      Large Seminar Room

      Physics Department

      Brookhaven National Laboratory Upton, NY 11973 USA
      Speaker: Michael Jarvis (Penn)
      Slides
    • 14:30 15:00
      PhoSim: A Code to Simulate Telescopes One Photon at a Time 30m Large Seminar Room

      Large Seminar Room

      Physics Department

      Brookhaven National Laboratory Upton, NY 11973 USA
      Speaker: John Peterson (Purdue)
      Slides
    • 15:00 15:30
      Coffee Break 30m Seminar Lounge

      Seminar Lounge

      Physics Department

    • 15:30 16:00
      Consequences of thick CCDs on Image Processing 30m Large Seminar Room

      Large Seminar Room

      Physics Department

      Brookhaven National Laboratory Upton, NY 11973 USA
      Speaker: Robert Lupton (Princeton)
      Slides
    • 16:00 16:30
      Shear estimators in Weak Lensing 30m Large Seminar Room

      Large Seminar Room

      Physics Department

      Brookhaven National Laboratory Upton, NY 11973 USA
      Speaker: Erin Sheldon (BNL)
      Slides
    • 16:30 17:30
      Discussion 1h Large Seminar Room

      Large Seminar Room

      Physics Department

      Brookhaven National Laboratory Upton, NY 11973 USA
    • 17:30 18:30
      Poster Session 1h Large Seminar Room

      Large Seminar Room

      Physics Department

      Brookhaven National Laboratory Upton, NY 11973 USA
      Slides
      • Spot scan probe of edge and midline effects in fully-depleted CCDs 15m
        Speaker: Paul O'Connor (BNL)
        Poster
      • STEP mission: High precision Space Astrometry 15m
        Speaker: Ding Chen (Center for Space Science and Applied Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences)
        Slides
      • X-ray Analysis of Fully Depleted Thick CCDs with Small Pixel Size 15m
        Speaker: Ivan Kotov (BNL)
        Slides
      • The GREAT3 Challenge 15m
        Speaker: Hironao Miyatake (Princeton)
        Slides
      • Impact of Chromatic Effects on Measurements of Galaxy Position, Shape and Flux 15m
        Speaker: Joshua Meyers (SLAC)
        Slides
      • PAU: A Fully Depleted Mosaic Imager with Narrow Band Filters 15m
        Speaker: Santiago Serrano (Instituto de Ciencias del Espacio, Barcelona)
        Slides
      • DECal Calibration System 15m
        Speaker: William Wester (Fermilab)
        Slides
      • MegaPipe astrometry for the New Horizons spacecraft 15m
        Speaker: Stephen Gwyn (Canadian Astronomy Data Centre)
        Slides
    • 19:00 22:00
      Workshop Dinner 3h Blackwells, Wading River

      Blackwells, Wading River

      www.blackwellsrestaurant.com/index.html

  • Tuesday, 19 November
    • 09:00 09:20
      Emulating Weak Gravitational Lensing Measurements in the Lab 20m Large Seminar Room

      Large Seminar Room

      Physics Department

      Brookhaven National Laboratory Upton, NY 11973 USA
      Speaker: Chaz Shapiro (JPL)
      Slides
    • 09:20 09:40
      Using a Fast Beam (f/1.2) to Characterize Thick CCD's 20m Large Seminar Room

      Large Seminar Room

      Physics Department

      Brookhaven National Laboratory Upton, NY 11973 USA
      Speaker: Kirk Gilmore (SLAC)
      Slides
    • 09:40 10:00
      Tree rings and other sensor effects in Dark Energy Camera 20m Large Seminar Room

      Large Seminar Room

      Physics Department

      Brookhaven National Laboratory Upton, NY 11973 USA
      Speaker: Andres Plazas Malagon (BNL)
      Slides
    • 10:00 10:30
      Coffee Break 30m Seminar Lounge

      Seminar Lounge

      Physics Department

    • 10:30 11:00
      The brighter-fatter effect and pixel correlations 30m Large Seminar Room

      Large Seminar Room

      Physics Department

      Brookhaven National Laboratory Upton, NY 11973 USA
      Speaker: Pierre Astier (LPNHE, Paris)
      Slides
    • 11:00 11:30
      Testing the Shrinking Pixel Hypothesis 30m Large Seminar Room

      Large Seminar Room

      Physics Department

      Brookhaven National Laboratory Upton, NY 11973 USA
      Speaker: Roger Smith (Caltech)
      Slides
    • 11:30 12:20
      Discussion 50m Large Seminar Room

      Large Seminar Room

      Physics Department

      Brookhaven National Laboratory Upton, NY 11973 USA
    • 12:20 13:30
      Lunch 1h 10m Building 488 (Berkner Hall)

      Building 488

      Berkner Hall

    • 13:30 14:00
      Fully Depleted Imager Technology at MIT Lincoln Laboratory 30m Large Seminar Room

      Large Seminar Room

      Physics Department

      Brookhaven National Laboratory Upton, NY 11973 USA
      Speaker: Vyshi Suntharalingam (Lincoln Lab)
      Slides
      Video
    • 14:00 14:30
      Physics of depleted CCDs 30m Large Seminar Room

      Large Seminar Room

      Physics Department

      Brookhaven National Laboratory Upton, NY 11973 USA
      Speaker: Steve Holland (LBNL)
      Slides
    • 14:30 15:00
      Dark Matter searches with fully depleted CCDs 30m Large Seminar Room

      Large Seminar Room

      Physics Department

      Brookhaven National Laboratory Upton, NY 11973 USA
      Speaker: Juan Estrada (Fermilab)
      Slides
    • 15:00 15:30
      Spectral extraction of BOSS fully-depleted CCD data 30m Large Seminar Room

      Large Seminar Room

      Physics Department

      Brookhaven National Laboratory Upton, NY 11973 USA
      Speaker: Julien Guy (LBNL)
      Slides
    • 15:30 16:00
      Coffee Break 30m Seminar Lounge

      Seminar Lounge

      Physics Department

    • 16:00 16:40
      Summary 40m Large Seminar Room

      Large Seminar Room

      Physics Department

      Brookhaven National Laboratory Upton, NY 11973 USA
      Speaker: Jim Gunn (Princeton)
      Slides
    • 16:40 16:50
      Concluding Remarks 10m Large Seminar Room

      Large Seminar Room

      Physics Department

      Brookhaven National Laboratory Upton, NY 11973 USA