summary of spitzer HzRG telecon - 2005 june 8
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attending: mark d., carlos deb., daniel s., joel v., andy b., huub r.,
george m., pat mcc., nick s., laurence e., arjun d., peter, e....


1. overview of spitzer observations
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+ IRAC - fully processed all the data taken to date and placed both images
  and photometry on the SHzRG website:

    http://spider.ipac.caltech.edu/staff/seymour/private/HzRGS.html
    username:  SHZRG
    password:  5Hz!Rg!

+ IRS/MIPS - algorithm for processing basically finalized; fully processed
  data and photometry expected at same website by end of June

+ a "reg file" (for use with ds9), listing the positions of all the SHzRGs
  is available at:
  http://spider.ipac.caltech.edu/staff/seymour/private/files/regions.reg


2. other stuff on website
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+ note that grenada talks by carlos, nick, & dan are available at
  supplementary data section of website (which also includes proposals,
  etc...)


3. papers
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+ 4c23.56 detailed SED modeling (carlos et al.)
   - top priority for carlos starting now
   - discussions underway with siebenmorgen regarding more realistic
     AGN models than the simple double black-body used in grenada talk
   - arjun suggested other accretion disk/dusty torus models by krolik (?)
     and litzer (?) which carlos should look into as well

+ rest-frame H-z diagram (nick et al.)
   - now that IRAC data is fully processed, this is top priority (once the
     MIPS and IRS data are processed, which should be this month)
   - models ... pegase-2
   - lower-redshift galaxies from spitzer archive (and ground-based)
   - compare to BCG's/cD's?


4. status of proposals, past & future
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+ HST archival proposal:  down in flames
+ Spitzer proposals (MIPS imaging & IRS spectroscopy):  down in flames
   - TAC concerned that IRS proposal was too ambitious (given how bright
     sources are)
+ Chandra proposal:  TAC meeting around now?
+ Palomar:  we had 4 nights last semester (3 lost to rain) and we have
  4 nights allocated for the 2005B semester
+ VLT: we have 2 nights coming in August and have already received some
  queue-scheduled IR images; next semester not official yet, but good
  rumors have been circulated
+ SCUBA: time all-but allocated, but SCUBA is all-but dead; might get some
  data after recommissioning or from SCUBA-2, due in ~9 mo. timescale (?)
+ MAMBO/IRAM: some data already taken, and expect to finish the sample w/
  next cycles proposal
+ CSO: putting together a proposal right now for JPL access to CSO


5. laurence eyles
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+ graduate student at exeter, working with andy bunker
+ just put in a proposal for ESO funding so that he'd spend 1-2 years of
  his graduate career in garching, working on this program
+ primary emphasis of proposal was environments


6. sharing data
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+ public website lists all of our sources and was shared with attendees to
  grenada conference
+ montse has requested data on a single source and will be writing it up,
  combined w/ extensive ground-based data, in the next few months.  carlos
  and joel are involved with this
+ ross mclure has requested IRAC data on 4 sources.  we've given it to him
  with the requirement that nick be included in science and in author list

     
action items:
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+ nick: finish off MIPS & IRS reductions & post to website
+ carlos & nick: start working on papers and ping people where help is
  needed (e.g., in churning through archival 4c23.56 data).  probably send
  out outlines in next weeks
+ joel/carlos: add "wish list" to website, listing what ground-based bands
  would be useful for which sources