UMICH-2015: Simulations & Data Analysis Summary

What needs to be in the S&DA section of the CMB-S4 Science Book?

What S&DA do we need to do to support the science sections of the CMB-S4 Science Book?

Action Items

• S&DA in Science Book
  • Scope goals & requirements at each mission epoch (design, construction, deployment, observation)
  • Populate resource surveys
    • Software
    • Computing
  • Identify common interest groups

• Sky Modeling
  • Initiate working group
  • Post-Planck Sky Model (PPSM): move PSM-2015 main branch to git repository
  • Investigate coupling to hydrodynamical sims for extragalactic foregrounds

• TOD Processing (Simulation, Pre-Processing & Map-Making)
  • Schedule birds of a feather session adjacent to Berkeley meeting

• Interfaces & Pipelines
  • Define standard data objects/formats
    • Consider computational constraints
    • Consider couplings to data acquisitions systems
    • Consider synergies with existing S3 (analysis tools) & proposed satellites (forecasting)

• Science Book Forecasting
  • Initiate working group
  • Collect science needs to ensure inputs meet requirements
  • Define a small set of sky models spanning our hopes and fears
  • Define a small set of our favorite mission configurations to investigate
    • Decide how these are parameterized (need to go beyond white noise level, beam size & sky fraction)
  • Extend/combine existing Fisher-based forecasting tools and apply to these to the set of sky/mission pairs.
  • Humor Julian's time-domain fantasies.

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