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
    • 1
      Registration Physics Department, Seminar Lounge

      Physics Department, Seminar Lounge

      Physics Department

      Brookhaven National Laboratory Upton, NY 11973 USA
    • 2
      Welcome 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
    • 3
      Introduction Large Seminar Room

      Large Seminar Room

      Physics Department

      Brookhaven National Laboratory Upton, NY 11973 USA
      Speaker: Chris Stubbs (Harvard)
      Slides
    • 4
      Precision Astrometry and Photometry from Pan-STARRS 1 Large Seminar Room

      Large Seminar Room

      Physics Department

      Brookhaven National Laboratory Upton, NY 11973 USA
      Speaker: Gene Magnier (University of Hawaii)
      Slides
    • 5
      On-sky performance and calibration of the Dark Energy Camera Large Seminar Room

      Large Seminar Room

      Physics Department

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

      Seminar Lounge

      Physics Department

    • 6
      Hyper Suprime-Cam and HPK CCDs Large Seminar Room

      Large Seminar Room

      Physics Department

      Brookhaven National Laboratory Upton, NY 11973 USA
      Speaker: Satoshi Miyazaki (NAOJ)
      Slides
    • 7
      Discussion and workshop photo Large Seminar Room

      Large Seminar Room

      Physics Department

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

      Building 488

      Berkner Hall

    • 8
      LSST sensors: how will dark energy be constrained with lensed photo-conversions? Large Seminar Room

      Large Seminar Room

      Physics Department

      Brookhaven National Laboratory Upton, NY 11973 USA
      Speaker: Andy Rasmussen (SLAC)
      Slides
    • 9
      Challenges for precision shape measurements Large Seminar Room

      Large Seminar Room

      Physics Department

      Brookhaven National Laboratory Upton, NY 11973 USA
      Speaker: Michael Jarvis (Penn)
      Slides
    • 10
      PhoSim: A Code to Simulate Telescopes One Photon at a Time Large Seminar Room

      Large Seminar Room

      Physics Department

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

      Seminar Lounge

      Physics Department

    • 11
      Consequences of thick CCDs on Image Processing Large Seminar Room

      Large Seminar Room

      Physics Department

      Brookhaven National Laboratory Upton, NY 11973 USA
      Speaker: Robert Lupton (Princeton)
      Slides
    • 12
      Shear estimators in Weak Lensing Large Seminar Room

      Large Seminar Room

      Physics Department

      Brookhaven National Laboratory Upton, NY 11973 USA
      Speaker: Erin Sheldon (BNL)
      Slides
    • 13
      Discussion Large Seminar Room

      Large Seminar Room

      Physics Department

      Brookhaven National Laboratory Upton, NY 11973 USA
    • 14
      Poster Session Large Seminar Room

      Large Seminar Room

      Physics Department

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

      Blackwells, Wading River

      www.blackwellsrestaurant.com/index.html

  • Tuesday, 19 November
    • 15
      Emulating Weak Gravitational Lensing Measurements in the Lab Large Seminar Room

      Large Seminar Room

      Physics Department

      Brookhaven National Laboratory Upton, NY 11973 USA
      Speaker: Chaz Shapiro (JPL)
      Slides
    • 16
      Using a Fast Beam (f/1.2) to Characterize Thick CCD's Large Seminar Room

      Large Seminar Room

      Physics Department

      Brookhaven National Laboratory Upton, NY 11973 USA
      Speaker: Kirk Gilmore (SLAC)
      Slides
    • 17
      Tree rings and other sensor effects in Dark Energy Camera Large Seminar Room

      Large Seminar Room

      Physics Department

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

      Seminar Lounge

      Physics Department

    • 18
      The brighter-fatter effect and pixel correlations Large Seminar Room

      Large Seminar Room

      Physics Department

      Brookhaven National Laboratory Upton, NY 11973 USA
      Speaker: Pierre Astier (LPNHE, Paris)
      Slides
    • 19
      Testing the Shrinking Pixel Hypothesis Large Seminar Room

      Large Seminar Room

      Physics Department

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

      Large Seminar Room

      Physics Department

      Brookhaven National Laboratory Upton, NY 11973 USA
    • 12:20
      Lunch Building 488 (Berkner Hall)

      Building 488

      Berkner Hall

    • 21
      Fully Depleted Imager Technology at MIT Lincoln Laboratory Large Seminar Room

      Large Seminar Room

      Physics Department

      Brookhaven National Laboratory Upton, NY 11973 USA
      Speaker: Vyshi Suntharalingam (Lincoln Lab)
      Slides
      Video
    • 22
      Physics of depleted CCDs Large Seminar Room

      Large Seminar Room

      Physics Department

      Brookhaven National Laboratory Upton, NY 11973 USA
      Speaker: Steve Holland (LBNL)
      Slides
    • 23
      Dark Matter searches with fully depleted CCDs Large Seminar Room

      Large Seminar Room

      Physics Department

      Brookhaven National Laboratory Upton, NY 11973 USA
      Speaker: Juan Estrada (Fermilab)
      Slides
    • 24
      Spectral extraction of BOSS fully-depleted CCD data Large Seminar Room

      Large Seminar Room

      Physics Department

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

      Seminar Lounge

      Physics Department

    • 25
      Summary Large Seminar Room

      Large Seminar Room

      Physics Department

      Brookhaven National Laboratory Upton, NY 11973 USA
      Speaker: Jim Gunn (Princeton)
      Slides
    • 26
      Concluding Remarks Large Seminar Room

      Large Seminar Room

      Physics Department

      Brookhaven National Laboratory Upton, NY 11973 USA