From: antunes@xeno.gsfc.nasa.gov (Sandy Antunes)

Subject: BOF: Scheduling/Pipelines, Tuesday Sept 16, 16:45-18:00

Hello ADASS attendees,

Dave Meriwether, Sean Ryan and myself will be leading a Birds-of-a-Feather session on "Scheduling & Pipelines". Put simply, this will focus on getting from text proposals to binary data for satellite telescopes and spectroscopic missions. Scheduling, echelle data reduction, AI, modeling, archiving, and other issues will be discussed.

So, if you've written a proposal that required special handling, tried to coordinate satellite time or multi-mission observations, dealt with echelle data, or wondered about how astrophysics is handled as part of the processing, we want your input! And, people who work in satellite planning and operations should definitely attend to listen to the community's needs.

This BOF is a forum for scientists to discuss what they want, schedulers to translate it, software coders to discuss how to implement it, and technical staff to explain how to get the results implemented in real time. With nearly a dozen telescope missions up or planned by the year 2000, and 8-m telescope with large format echelle spectrographs on the horizon, anyone who expects to deal with data from these is encouraged to attend and state their views.

We will have attendees including schedulers from the Asca mission (Paul Hilton), the Hubble Space Telescope (Glenn Miller), XTE and Astro-E (Sandy Antunes), EUVE and Gravity Probe B (Dave Merriweather), likely ESA and other science staffers, echelle support staff (Sean Ryan and Pascal Ballester), and IRAF (Frank Valdes). It's on Tuesday, September 16 at 16:45-18:00.

See you there!

Sandy

antunes@xeno.gsfc.nasa.gov