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A community white paper about LSST observing strategy, with quantifications via the the Metric Analysis Framework.
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Re-ordering of Milky Way chapter 2015-11-19 #182

Closed willclarkson closed 8 years ago

willclarkson commented 8 years ago

Outcome of discussion at Tucson (Thurs 2015-11-19): re-ordering of Milky Way chapter around science cases that are relatively well-developed by this point, and (in principle) straightforward to turn into metrics. Many metrics will likely call on those developed by Variability chapter team (both periodic and non-periodic). @akvivas @cbritt4 @ctslater @willclarkson @bethwillman @caprastro @dnidever @knutago @ivezic + volunteers welcome! Proposed revised chapter structure:

Need progress at the Tucson meeting:

4.1. Introduction

4.2. Mapping the Milky Way Halo - Tracers: RR Lyrae, red giants [surface gravity separated from dwarfs], metallicity maps w/ F+G main sequence stars.

4.3. Mapping the Milky Way Disk - Science drivers include: finding rare objects, microlensing, and dust mapping...

4.4. Mapping the Milky Way with Positions, Proper Motions, and Parallax (proposed merging of Chapter 5 with Chapter 4)

"Wish list" sections depending on availability of effort and strictness of whitepaper posting deadline:

4.5. Mapping the Milky Way's bulge

4.6. Mapping the Local Volume with Resolved Stars

akvivas commented 8 years ago

Ok... new skeleton for the chapter is in place. There are individual files for each subsection in the MilkyWay subdirectory. You can start editing!

willclarkson commented 8 years ago

Kathy - excellent, thanks!!!

Will

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On Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 7:33 PM, Kathy notifications@github.com wrote:

Ok... new skeleton for the chapter is in place. There are individual files for each subsection in the MilkyWay subdirectory. You can start editing!

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willclarkson commented 8 years ago

Hi @cbritt4 @caprastro - just FYI, we have a backup copy of the older MW_Plane.tex that Jay and Chris have worked on, and which was committed again by Chris just before the refactoring. One of my jobs is to update the refactored section 4.3 with parts of those science cases. So we have not lost all your work! Cheers -- Will

drphilmarshall commented 8 years ago

Good good! I notice that one of your sections (Mapping the Milky Way with Positions, Proper Motions, and Parallax) is not like the others (Disk, Bulge, Halo, Local Volume). Presumably the content of the old chapter 5 will get divided among the other 4 science sections, and a fraction of it will get quantified with metrics? I will go ahead and remove Chapter 5.

willclarkson commented 8 years ago

This initial reordering was done, closing this issue.