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Science Kick Off Meeting
19 July 2004

http://astron.berkeley.edu/~jrg/SciKO/


9:00 - Introduction

+ Welcome (Graham: 10 m)

+ Project overview (Macintosh - 25 m)
	- Describe EXAOC
	- Enumerate primary design choices

+ Review of Gemini deliverables and schedule (Palmer - 15 m)

10:00 - Science

+ Science overview (Graham - 10 m)

+ Exoplanets
	- Exoplanet physics: formation, cooling and atmospheres (Burrows: 20 m)
	- Field survey for exoplanets (Graham/Marcy: 15 m)
	- Exoplanets in young clusters and associations (Song/Patience: 15 m)

11:00-11:15 - Break

+ Disks
	- Disk physics (Chiang: 15 m )
	- Protoplanetary and circumstellar disks (Johnstone: 15 m)
	- Debris disks (Kalas: 15 m)

12:00-01:00 - Lunch

+ Working lunch discussion topics
	- Adjunct science
	- Deriving instrumental requirements and trade study tools
	- Figure of merit for coronagraphs
	- Observing scenarios (queue vs. classical)

01:00 - Workshop session---key questions

+ Fundamental instrument properties (Moderator: TBD)
	- Operating wavelength range?
		+ Visible light correction?
		+ Long wavelength detection of cool objects?
 		+ Dust mineralogy?
	- IWD and FOV
	- WFS limiting magnitude
		+ Multiple subaperture sizes?
	- Spectral resolution and bandwidth
		+ Classification of planetary atmospheres
		+ Dust & ice in grains
	- Polarization

2:30-3:00 - Break & continued discussion

+ Detection methods and experimental design (Moderator: TBD)
	- Contrast and detectability
		+ Acceptable false alarm rate?
	- Speckle supression strategies
		+ Multiwavelength
		+ Speckle symmetry
	- Coronagraph architecture and figures of merit
		+ Field of view/throughput trade-off
		+ Non-point source companions?
	- Astrometry
		+ Confirmation of common proper motion
		+ Measurement of orbital elements

+ Observing scenarios (Moderator: TBD)
	- Field survey strategy
	- Cluster and association catalogs
	- N vs. S hemisphere
	- Queue vs. classical?
		+ If queue, what fraction of best seeing, etc. do we go for?
	- Dectection of known known planets
	- Reward time/community involvement

4:30: Review of progress and action items

5:00: Adjourn