ST-ECF Annual Review

Participants

For ESA

• Alvaro Giminez (RSSD, arriving pm)
• Duccio Macchetto (SN)
• Catherine Turon (AWG)
• Monica Tosi (STUC, not available due to illness)

For ES0

• Catherine Cesarsky (post-meeting briefing)
• Peter Quinn (DMD)
• Bruno Leibundgut (SCO)
• Linda Tacconi (STC)

ST-ECF staff as necessary

DRAFT Agenda

• 11:00 - 11:15 Welcome & Introduction (Fosbury)
• Appointment of chair (ESA)
• Adoption of agenda
• 11:30 - 11:50 HST status
  • Spacecraft (Albrecht)
  • TAC Cycle (Macchetto)
• 11:50 - 13:00 ST-ECF core activities 2005 - I
• Instrument Science (Walsh)
• Archive (Hook)
• Public Outreach (Christensen)

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• 13:00 - 14:00 LUNCH (with all ECF staff) (~ 13:00)

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• 14:00 - 15:00 ST-ECF activities 2005 - II
• Science (Kuntschner)
• ESA-ESO, OPTICON, SAMPO etc. (Fosbury)
• 15:15 - 16:15 Issues
• HLA resources and long-term commitment
• Implications of an SM4
• ESO/ESA technical interfaces
• Discussion
• 16:15 - 17:00 Executive session

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• 17:00 MEETING ENDS

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• 19:15 DINNER

Presentations

Will be placed here on or before the 27 Feb.

• Introduction and misc. issues, Fosbury (ppt)
• HST Status, Rudi Albrecht (ppt)
• Instrument Science, Jeremy Walsh (ppt)
• Archive, Richard Hook (ppt)
• Public Outreach, Lars Christensen (ppt)
• Science, Harald Kuntschner (ppt)

Background items

• ST-ECF Organigram (Jan. 2006, pdf)
• ST-ECF staff bibliography 2005
• ST-ECF Annual Review, 22 February 2005 (draft minutes)
• ST-ECF presentation to ESO STC, April 2005 (ppt)
• ST-ECF presentation to ESO Status Overview, February 2006 (ppt)
• The HST MoU document (esa/SPC(2006)6) is available to the meeting as a paper copy. This is due for renewal by May 2006
• ST-ECF Outreach website: spacetelescope.org
• Hubble 15th Anniversary Project
• FITS Liberator Project
• Communicating Astronomy with the Public 2005 (CAP 2005); Proceedings
• ST-ECF Newsletter No. 38 (Jul. 2005)
• ST-ECF Newsletter No. 39 (Dec. 2005)
• ESA-ESO Working Groups - Report No. 1 (Extra-Solar Planets); see also the articles in ESO Messenger No. 121
• The Current and Future ST-ECF, from ESO Messenger No. 122
• Towards an Automatic Reduction of FORS2-MXU Spectroscopy, from ESO Messenger No. 122
• GOODS/FORS2 Data Release: Version 2.0, Dec. 2005 (release website)
• ST-ECF contributions to HST Calibration Workshop 2005
  • Calibration of ACS Prism Slitless Spectroscopy Modes, S. S. Larsen, M. Kuemmel and J. R. Walsh (pdf)
  • Slitless spectroscopy with the Advanced Camera for Surveys, M. Kuemmel, S.S. Larsen and J.R. Walsh (pdf)
  • Recent developments of the ACS spectral extraction software aXe, Jeremy R. Walsh, Martin Kuemmel, S. S. Larsen (pdf)
  • STIS Calibration Enhancement (STIS-CE): Dispersion Solutions based on a Physical Instrument Model, Florian Kerber, Paul Bristow, Michael R. Rosa (pdf)
  • Characterization of Pt/Cr-Ne Hollow-Cathode Lamps for Wavelength Standards in Space Astronomy, Florian Kerber et al. (pdf)
  • Performance of the FOS and GHRS Pt/(Cr)-Ne Hollow-cathode Lamps after their Return from Space and Comparison with Archival Data, Florian Kerber et al. (pdf)
  • STIS Calibration Enhancement, P. Bristow, F. Kerber & M. Rosa (pdf)

Abbreviations/Acronyms

• HLA - Hubble Legacy Archive
• SAMPO: ESO-Finnish study of future data reduction and analysis environments
• MoU - Memorandum of Understanding - renewal by May 2006