tentative agenda

 

The latest version of the workshop agenda is provided below. In case you have any suggestion or comment on the programme please contact the SOC.

Presenters are invited to check guidelines for oral presentations under "Call for Abstracts".

 

2016 Euclid Photometric Calibration Workshop Programme

Latest update: 14 Sep 2016

 

Tuesday 20 September,  09:30 – 17:30

    09:30 - 09:45 Welcome, workshop objectives  - Rene Laureijs / Stefanie Wachter

 

Session 1: Euclid capabilities and spectro-photometry calibration

Core science experiment. Euclid spectro-photometric requirements, their budgeting, justification and calibration implementation plan.

 

Chair: Rene Laureijs

    09:45 – 10:45 Euclid Overview

  • Euclid: Core Science Experiment, Capabilities, including deep survey description and plans - Yannick Mellier 25+5’

  • Review of SGS organisation, pipelines through processing functions, external data acquisition - Marc Sauvage 25+5’

   10:45 - 11:15 Galaxy Clustering spectro-photometry requirements

  • GC requirements flow down, budgeting - Will Percival  25+5’

 

11:15 - 11:45 Coffee/tea break

 

   11:45 - 12:45 GC continued

  • Planned spectro-photometry calibration programme - Anne Ealet 25+5’

  • Relative spectro-photometry Uebercal - Dida Markovic 25+5’

 

12:45 - 13:15 Open Discussion

 

13:15 - 13:30 walk to ESAC canteen

13:30 - 14:15 Lunch  at ESAC canteen

 

Session 2: Photometric systems and absolute photometry

Photometric calibration approaches/experience and fiducial standards from other space missions

 

Chair: Stefanie Wachter

      14:30 - 15:30

  • HST/JWST Photometric Calibration - Susana Deustua 25+5’

  • Final absolute calibration of Spitzer/IRAC and application to Euclid - Sean Carey 25+5’

  

15:30 - 16:00 coffee/tea break

 

       16:00 - 17:30

  • Ultracool Dwarfs as Potential Calibrators for Euclid - Eduard Martin 25+5’

  • SN survey calibration (MegaCam/SNLS) - Marc Betoule 25+5’

  • Discussion Panel / Wrap-up of Day 1: Need for absolute photometry for Euclid 25+5’

 

 

Wednesday 21 September, 09:00 – 17:45

Session 3: Photometric calibration of imaging datasets

Euclid WL photometry and cross-calibration (OU-VIS, OU-NIR, OU-EXT, OU-MER) per pixel calibration, source extraction

 

Chair: Ruyman Azzolllini

     09:00 - 11:00

  • Gaia Photometric Calibration - Carme Jordi 25+5’

  • Short overview OU-VIS - Patrick Tisserand 25+5’

  • Short overview OU-NIR - Peter Capak 25+5’

  • Short overview OU-EXT - Joe Mohr 25+5’

 

11:00 - 11:30 Coffee/tea break

 

     11:30 - 12:45

  • Short overview OU-MER - Alexandre Boucaud 25+5’

  • Euclid wide ground-based surveys: coverage, metrics and depths - Jean-Charles Cuillandre 20+5’

  • KiDS Photometric Calibration Lessons and Implications for meeting Euclid Requirements - Gert Sikkema 20+5’

 

12:45 - 13:15 Open Discussion

 

13:30 - 14:15 Lunch at ESAC canteen

 

Session 4: Spectro Photometry

Euclid GC spectro-photometry, Euclid GC related processing

 

Chair: Susana Deustua

     14:30 - 15:30

  • Short overview OU-SIR - Marco Scodeggio 25+5’

  • Short overview OU-SPE - Benoit Epinat 25+5’

 

15:30 - 16:00 Coffee/tea break

 

     16:00 - 17:45

  • Lessons Learned from HST Grism Spectroscopy - Harry Teplitz 20+5’ (remotely)

  • NIS Grism Wavelength calibration - William Gillard 20+5’

  • Model based approach to JWST NIRspec Calibration - Giovanna Giardino 20+5’

  • Open Discussion / Wrap-up of Day 2 - 25+5’

 

Evening programme TBC   

Conference dinner in the "La Giralda" restaurant in downtown Madrid at 20:00h

 

Thursday 22 September, 09:00 – 17:30

Session 5: Photo-z Estimation and Calibration

WL requirements, OU-PHZ, redshift determination and calibration

 

Chair: Joe Mohr

     09:00 - 10:45

  • Weak Lensing Photometric requirements (flow down, budgeting, planned calibration programme) - Tom Kitching 25+5’

  • OU-PHZ: general photo-z overview of the requirements, algorithms and current performance - Stephane Paltani 40+5’

  • SED dependent Galactic extinction Prescription for Euclid and Future Cosmological Surveys - Audrey Galametz 25+5’

 

10:45 - 11:15 Coffee/tea break

 

     11:15 - 12:45

  • Clustering based redshift for Euclid - Vivien Scottez 25+5’

  • Spectroscopic redshift calibration of photo-zs - Peter Capak 25+5’

  • Panel Discussion: How to obtain throughput curves for VIS, NIR, as well as ground based surveys.  What about variations in throughput curves as a function of position within the instruments and changes over time?  Is there a plan for handling this? - 25+5’

 

Session 6 : Methods, improvements, enhancements

May include alternative algorithms, possibilities to improve beyond the “as required” performances, relative photometric accuracy and reproducibility, Legacy science optimisation

 

Chair: Raymond Carlberg

      12:45 - 13:15  

  • GC/WL Dithering strategy considerations for Euclid -  Anne Ealet 20+5’

 

13:15/30  - 14:15 Lunch at ESAC canteen

 

Session 6 continued

     14:30 - 15:45

  • Uebercal photometric calibration of previous surveys (SDSS, PS1) - Eddie Schlafly 20+5’ (remotely)

  • Calibration of EXT-DES Data - Mohammad Mirkazemi 20+5’

  • The Dark Energy Camera Legacy Survey (DECaLS): image reduction using The Tractor - Dustin Lang 20+5’

 

15:45 - 16:15 Coffee/tea break

 

    16:15 - 17:30

  • Framework for Joint Photometric Validation of External Imaging Surveys - Gijs Verdoes 20+5’

  • Legacy Science Requirements - Chris Conselice 20+5’

  • Surface brightness calibration - Rick Arendt / Alexander Kashlinsky 20+5' (remotely)

 

Friday 23 September, 09:00 – 17:00

Session 7: Euclid technicalities

Technicalities and conventions applicable to SGS and in the interest of legacy archive users

 

Chair: Marc Sauvage

     09:00 - 11:00

  • Euclid Archive - Bruno Altieri 20+5’

  • MDB, Euclid conventions - Roland Vavrek 20+5’

  • QLA - Luca Conversi 20+5’

  • Panel Discussion (Interfaces, apertures, conventions) 25+5’

 

Closure of plenary part of workshop

 

11:00 - 11:30 Coffee/tea break

 

Morning Splinter Sessions - to be announced

     OU-EXT - discussion of coordination on CFIS data

     CALWG

 

13:15 - 14:15 Lunch at ESAC canteen

 

Afternoon Splinter Sessions - to be announced