From: stephanie snedden
Subject: SEGUE Phone Con Notes - Oct 17, 2006
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2006 14:32:26 -0600
Let's have a SEGUE phone con Tue Oct 17rd at 2:30pm CDT,  3:30 pm EDT,
1:30 pm MDT, 12:30pm PDT, 19:30 Z
Contact info:
Dial In: 1 (800) 928-6358 (USA - toll free)
International participants should dial: 1 (630) 693-3212 (this is a toll
call)
Passcode: 8875327
Attending: Brian, Connie, Peregrine, Kurt, Jennifer, Steph, Kyle,
Jim, Jill, Robert, Tim, Carlos
    	Agenda:
	M71 run 6282 and processing status
Important because of high metallicity standards, but has been failing
processing. Crowded-field stars are being called cosmic rays, and the
pipeline is failing at that point. They are playing with the cosmic
ray parameter, and Robert will try running the PAN-STARRS code on the
M71 data.
	high-res reductions
Analysis in-progress, but a variety of S/N Keck spectra need to be
added. Pipeline and high-res (Keck) metallicities and Temperatures
show an offset, and they wonder if they will continue to see this
offset with high-res reductions from other telescopes (HET, Subaru).
Tim and co. have run some tests that indicate using synthetic spectra
should be used with the high-res spectra, and the offsets seen are
probably from the high-res reductions, not the pipeline reductions.
The results are very sensitive to the temperature that is fit. Tim
suggests fixing T for some abundances tests.
	radial velocity work updates
Spectro v5 pipeline: Craig has run a plate that had two different
pluggings through the pipeline. This helped establish the RV
outliers. More work being done. Scatter is worse for BHBs, and Connie
is trying to understand the internal scatter from ELODIE templates.
	crowded field reduction status
Working with run 535, which goes through the Galactic plane. Two
columns have been reduced. The remainder failed to process. Robert is
working on uniform weighting of colors in the photometry and sky
subtraction. They should have results good enough for target
selection next week.
	Plate drilling deadline -- end of Oct -- stripe 1188
There will be some plates at high negative b (near S Galactic pole).
We should get them in time for the November dark run.
	Observing plan for rest of fall (SN season overlap)
They are eager to get the 72 N data. This is high priority in the
observing plan. Interrupt SN imaging as necessary.
	SSS extension -- discussion on 2 year (vs. 6 year) science
They need to write up a two-year version of the SSS extension by the
end of October. They also need to establish how SEGUE could mesh with
the U Va program.