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Science Working Group & Pulsar Workshop

December 11-12, 2001
University of California, Santa Cruz
283 Kerr Hall

AGENDA

The GLAST Science working Group meeting in December will feature a day workshop devoted to Pulsar studies in the GLAST era. Steve Thorsett has kindly agreed to organize this workshop and his latest list of speakers is appended below. Our normal SWG meeting will take place on Wednesday the 12th of December

December 11, 2001 - Pulsar Studies in the GLAST era:

Peter Michelson GLAST: An Introduction 45 min
Dave Thompson Pulsars: EGRET Results and Unanswered Questions 45 min
Alice Harding Acceleration and emission modeling 30 min
Jon Arons Polar Cap Gamma-Ray Emission 30 min
Hirotani Kouichi Gamma-ray Emission from the Outer Magnetosphere: Spectrum vs Location 15 min
Matthew Baring High Field Pulsars and Pulsar Observability from a GLAST Perspective 20 min
Maura McLaughlin Population estimates for GLAST (Thorsett presenting) 20 min
Peter Gonthier Galactic populations of radio and gamma-ray pulsars: the polar cap model 20 min
Mallory Roberts Variable High-Energy Emission from Pulsar Winds 15 min
Paul Ray The EGRET source LSI +61 303 15 min
Zaven Arzoumanian A new young pulsar near the Gould Belt 15 min
Roger Romani Multiwavelength studies of known and potential gamma-ray pulsars 30 min
Ingrid Stairs Radio Pulsar Targets for GLAST: After the Parkes Survey 30 min
Paul Ray Direct Pulsation Searches in Gamma-Ray Datasets 30 min
Zaven Arzoumanian Radio followup of EGRET and GLAST unidentified sources 30 min
Vicki Kaspi Three Energetic Pulsars Coincident with EGRET Sources ??

December 12

8:30 Welcome and Opening Comments
Introduction, Review of Agenda 		J. F. Ormes
8:40 Comments from NASA Headquarters
Agreements, budget status, issues and concerns, etc 		D. Kniffen
8:50 Comments from DoE Point of View
Agreements, budget status, issues and concerns, etc. 		E. Valle
9:00 Comments by and/or Questions from non-US participants  
9:15 Education initiatives P. Plait
9:45 Break  
10:00 Project Overviews
Debris field analysis, deorbit planning, data downlink contact frequency, spacecraft trade studies, impact of special autonomous repointing operations 		L. Citrin
10:30 The Large Area Telescope (LAT)
LAT Issues and concerns 		P. Michelson
11:00 The Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (GBM)
GBM Issues and concerns 		C. Meegan
11:30 Public Relations N. Gehrels
11:45 Preparations of the GLAST Science Plan N. Gehrels
12:00 Lunch  
1:00 LAT/GBM burst studies
GBM-LAT interface, realtime on-board repointing decisions and constraints,
operations planning and modes update
Comments on data requirements for gamma-ray burst studies
What to do about TOOs Ð response time, frequency, etc 		C. Meegan
S. Ritz
 
B. Dingus
2:00 SSC Status and Report of the SSC D. Band
2:30 Break  
2:45 Review of the Program Data Management Plan
with a lot of help from: 		J. Ormes
D. Band
P. Michelson
C. Meegan
4:00 Next steps to set up Users Group D. Kniffen
4:15 Other issues arising, discussion and Action review J. Ormes
5:00 Adjourn  

Other items discussed at the last meeting were:

GBM capabilities for Hard X-ray transients by The Earth Occultation method
C. Meegan/A. Harmon
Cosmic Ray Electron with GLAST
J. Ormes/A. Moiseev/I. Moskalenko