Notes on discussion
Vadim Burwitz (MPE)/ Jan Robrade (Hamburg) - Stellar Working Group
- Even shallow surveys are adequate, because these tend to be bright
- Need coverage over the galactic plane
- Typically one direction-- look at optical star catalog and find the eROSITA counterpart
- a challenge is stars tend to have companions, and these cannot be easily separated in the X-ray
- Nearby- so proper motions must be available for the optical catalogs...
- Stellar scientists will generate new lists and need to upload those into Frank's tool to allow for cross-correlations with other catalogs.
Arne Rau (MPE) and Axel Schwope (AIP) - compact objects working group
- Type 1 sources: known X-ray emitters (famous but a minority of sources)
- Type 2 sources: standard multi-wavelength catalogs... position, flux, morphology and variability information needed
- Most are galactic sources (also LMC and SMC), but not true for all....
- Variability - on different timescales-- typically shorter timescales than AGN
- Lack of a counterpart is also important information
- Proper motions would be key way to separate CV and AGN-- otherwise only Spectra can do this
- o Galaxy extent also useful for AGN... (but not QSO's)
- Showed the Catalina Real Time Survey-- nice variability survey
Werner Becker, Tom - SNe Remnants
Mara - AGN
- could we test for variability on PS1 and DES?
- can we work together to combine data from different bands? (i, UKIDS/WISE/DES?)
Discussion items:
- specific questions:
- We need some kind of footprint service-- using Mangle???
- Start with crude coverage maps... ultimately will likely need detailed coverage maps.
- Healpix has been thought of, but it's not very efficient...
- Polygons seem to be better for this- well accepted.
- Database server- bringing the Johns Hopkins here to start with quickly. It would be at the Rechenzentrum.
- New person would be hired at MPE to handle this work.
- A shared region of the sky.... Stripe82 is an option. 2 deg^2 would be a good start. PS1+DES+SDSS....
- Discussion of links to the images from particular surveys for...
- need to store the coadds and offer cutouts....
- need an interactive tool to create cutouts... this serves most people.
- Discussion of X-ray image cutouts... should it be in image space or
- should it be the photon lists.
- Tom doing this for spectra and light curves...
- Would work for lists of sources... is good for stacking...
- X-ray contour line overlays for survey cutouts
- should it be the photon lists.
- Further discussion of database issues....
- looking for an additional person supported by MPE...
- will try to get Marion Cadolle Bel involved in this, starting this fall
- RZG is sharing DBA half and half with MPA...
- To do list: by October...
- Joe: will track down PS1 and DES photometry over stripe 82... get back to Mara about this.
- Hermann, Gerard, Jaiwon... - will look into database issues
will interact wit RZG re. hosting JHU SkyQuery catalog DB (cortesy Alex Szalay, see GL's/HB's presentations)
will look into attaching Millenium/TAP services to SkyQuery DB
- longterm (given availability of suitable developer/maintainer): port functionality of Frank's SMC DB system to SkyQuery/Millenium/TAP, tailor for eROSITA...
- Will post talks on the wiki... (for now)
- will try to circulate notes, too...
- Discussion of October meeting --
- Schedule for the next consortium meeting....
- + 2.5 days of meeting...
- Schedule for the next consortium meeting....