Summary of Spitzer HzRG Telecon - 2004 December 10
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Attending:  Brigitte R.-V., Andrew Z., Mark L., Daniel S., Carlos DeB.,
  Joel V., Bob F., Alessandro R., Nick S.
 
Overview of Spitzer observations:
IRAC - looks good; we're detecting sources; but needs some work beyond
  the basic pipeline; Nick will use Lacy & Moustakas codes for ch.1 &
  ch.2 (in principle, Moustakas code should be better, but hasn't been
  extensively tested yet beyond the GOODS data sets); there wasn't much
  discussion of ch.3 & ch.4, but Lacy & Stern have ideas, experience,
  & procedures for improving those data as well
 
IRS - generally good; we're detecting most sources; s11 pipeline has
  just kicked in and will provide astrometry to IRS imaging data;
  plan is to delay most IRS reductions until the re-reductions enter
  the pipeline (~3 weeks from now), but Nick to contact Harry to start
  playing with photometry on s10 reductions, particularly for 4c23.56;
  Stern to show preliminary s10 reductions to Harry for comments

MIPS - generally good at 24um, but not good at 70um and 160um; 24um
  generally detects HzRGs, sometimes quite spectacularly (e.g., 4c23.56);
  however, basic pipeline product looks quite ratty still; Lacy & Stern
  to contact experts at SSC (e.g., Fadda, Ram-Chary) for
  advice; expectation is that 24um should be quite good with a little
  effort; longer wavelength data doesn't appear to be detecting
  sources;  Lacy & Stern to seek local advice
 
Accepted ground-based programs:
VLT #1 - got 13 hr. of imaging polarimetry (in blue, line-free filter)
  to assess AGN contribution to photometry
VLT #2 - got 8hr of ISAAC near-IR imaging; proposal asked for optical
  and near-IR imaging in line-free bands straddling D4000 to aide in
  the SED modeling; imaging polarimetry data will somewhat buy back
  the failed optical portion of this proposal, but unclear whether
  sufficient or not
Palomar 200" - got 4 nights to image in line-free bands straddling D4000
  to aide in the SED modeling: Feb.4th for optical imaging (LFC) and
  Feb.17th-19th for near-IR imaging (WIRC)
 
Archive/webpage:
looks great;  now begins the painful time of populating the ground-based,
archival data from our co-I's; AZ sent list of HST data for our targets,
which will be added to the webpage; AZ also has Gemini AO data on 4c23.56,
the likely target of the 1st paper
 
Follow-up programs:
will discuss in more detail next telecon, but IRS spectroscopy of
MIPS-det'd sources seems like a good idea;  in particular, BRV pointed out
that spectroscopy to deconvolve PAH emission from hot dust emission in the
rest-frame ~8um region would be useful and interesting;  IRS spectroscopy
should be good to ~1 mJy flux levels; HST imaging?; HST archival proposal?
 
 
Action Items:
NS - webpage, IRAC data, photometry, etc...
DS & ML - contact SSC MIPS experts
DS - show IRS images to Teplitz for comments
DS, CDB, JV, etc... - start digging up archival data on our targets
DS - contact (MED to contact) Ken Chambers regarding 4c23.56 ground-based
     data
AZ - get Gemini AO data on 4c23.56 together for 1st paper