CCF General Meeting

Name: CCF General Meeting
Start: 2017-10-02T14:00:00+02:00
End: 2017-10-05T18:00:00+02:00
Location: Barcelona, Spain

2 Oct 2017, 14:00 → 5 Oct 2017, 18:00 Europe/Berlin

Edifici Nexus, 2nd floor, c/ Gran Capità 2-4. To arrive from the airport, take the metro line 9 and exit at "Zona Universitària" (Barcelona, Spain)

Edifici Nexus, 2nd floor, c/ Gran Capità 2-4. To arrive from the airport, take the metro line 9 and exit at "Zona Universitària"

Barcelona, Spain

Institut d'Estudis Espacials de Catalunya - IEEC c/ Gran Capità, 2-4, Edifici Nexus, 2nd floor. 08034 Barcelona

Markus Gaug

markus.gaug@uab.cat

Registration

Participants

Monday 2 October
- Site climatology
  - 1
    
    Chilean site characterization
    
    Speaker: Tomasz Bulik (University of Warsaw)
    
    Talk.pdf
  - 2
    
    Prototype Weather Monitoring System for CTA-N
    
    Speaker: Lluis Font (UAB)
    
    Weather monitoring system at CTA-N.pdf
  - 3
    
    Update on All-Sky-Cameras
    
    running analysis on existing data LP ARM, news - software, hardware, scripts, OPC-UA
    
    Speaker: Dusan Mandat (Institute of Physics ASCR, v. v. i.)
    
    Update on All-Sky-Cameras.pdf
  - 4
    
    All-Sky-Cameras for CTA
    
    Plans for IKC
    
    Speaker: Dusan Mandat (Institute of Physics ASCR, v. v. i.)
    
    All-Sky-Cameras for CTA.pdf
  - 5
    
    Update on Sun/Moon photometer for CTA
    
    Speaker: Jakub Jurysek (Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences)
    
    photometer_jurysek_barcelona.pdf
  - 6
    
    Experience from the installation of the FRAM at CTA-S
    
    Speaker: Jakub Jurysek (Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences)
    
    cta_fram_jurysek_barcelona.pdf
  - 7
    
    Tropospheric Ozone at the CTA sites
    
    Speaker: Markus Gaug (UAB Barcelona, Spain)
    
    gaug_ozone.pdf
  - 8
    
    Update on radio sonde campaigns
    
    Speaker: Julio Marin (UV)
    
    Marin_radiosondes.pdf
Tuesday 3 October
- Atmospheric Calibration
  - 9
    
    Molecular profiles at the CTA sites
    
    Speaker: Pere Munar-Adrover (INAF-IAPS)
    
    peremunar_molecular_profiles.pdf
  - 10
    Status of MC Simulations
    
    Speakers: Johan Bregeon (CNRS IN2P3 LUPM), Markus Gaug (UAB Barcelona, Spain), Michael Prouza (Institute of Physics - Prague)
    
    AtmoSim_update_JB.pdf
    
    Piping corsika output into more than 3 simtel_array is not efficient because Corsika allocates only 1 CPU core, while 3 simtel_array's (on 3 cores each) are waiting for input basically idle. Moreover, simtel_array allocates ~1 GB of memory, cannot run more than 3 because of that.
    
    We will soon call for a meeting in cta-wp-ccf-atmosim@cta-observatory.org, to organize the required MODTRAN tables by Johan.
    
    The -DEXTRACLOUD option seems to be an efficient solution for the clouds only.
    
    A full proton simulation setup for CTC is available by Stan Stefanik, he will provide all his input to Johan
    
    Johan asks for a person running basic tests on first output. That person should ask Konrad for help (but also Johan is avaiable)
- 11:00
  
  Coffee break
- Atmospheric Calibration
  - 11
    
    Update on the FRAM
    
    Speaker: Jan Ebr (Institute of Physics, Prague)
    
    FRAM-Ebr-Barcelona-2017.pdf
  - 12
    
    CTC for atmospheric calibration
    
    Speaker: Stanislav Stefanik (Charles University in Prague)
    
    ctc_1.pdf
- 13:00
  
  Lunch
- Atmospheric Calibration
  - 13
    
    General status of the atmospheric correction projects
    
    Speaker: Markus Gaug (UAB Barcelona, Spain)
    
    CCF info for Infra Interfaces CTAN v3.xlsx
    
    gaug_generallidar.pdf
  - 14
    
    Update on the LUPM Raman LIDAR
    
    Speaker: George Vasileiadis (LUPM)
    
    Raman-LUPM.pdf
  - 15
    
    Update on the IFAE/UAB Raman LIDAR
    
    Speakers: Mrs Camilla Maggio (UAB), Markus Gaug (UAB Barcelona, Spain), Mrs Merve Colak (IFAE)
    
    CCF LIDAR Presentation.pdf
  - 16
    
    Update on the CEILAP LIDAR
    
    Speaker: Pablo Roberto Ristori (División Lidar - CEILAP - (UNIDEF-CONICET))
  - 17
    Status of the ARCADE LIDAR Project
    
    Speaker: Laura Valore (INFN and University of Naples)
    
    valore_CCFMeeting_BarcelonaOct2017.pdf
    
    Local installation:
    
    Installation place:
    
    Cross-calibration with MAGIC and CTA LIDARs:
  - 18
    
    UVscope: an instrument for calibration support
    
    Speaker: Giovanni La Rosa (INAF-IASF Palermo)
    
    UVscope BCN.pdf
Wednesday 4 October
- Common issues
  - 19
    
    Status of EoIs and plans for In-kind-contributions
    
    Speaker: Markus Gaug (UAB Barcelona, Spain)
    
    Array calibration:
    
    Instrumentation:
    
    Illuminator:    full IKC from INAF, but need to be updated for current number of devices
    
    UAV:    should be part of a larger IKC, but cannot be incorporated in INAF IKC.
    
    Methods and Software:
    
    Should be a global package, led by some coordinating institute, but the rest are "small" contributions, Before, the relation between A&S WG and CTAO must be legally clarified. (Might be an IKC from CTAC)
    
    Atmospheric Calibration:
    
    Site Characterization:
    
    a) Acquired data that can be "transferred" to CTAO wihtout any IKC
    
    b) Certain data products want to be an IKC: ARCADE, existing photometer not, but perhaps a new one for CTA-N
    
    c) Spftware not included so far in EoI
    
    Dynamic Scheduling:
    
    ASC+ Ceilometer: IKC of AS-CR, EoI needs be updated for ASC w.r.t. dyn. scheduling
    
    Software: Should at least be led by AS-CR
    
    Atmospheric Corrections:
    
    FRAM+CTC: EoI of AS-CR, check whether 3 are included in EoI
    
    LIDAR: 2 EoI's, but one inofficial from CEILAP
    
    Software: Can AS-CR lead this part ?? (discuss with Michael Prouza)
    
    Weather monitoring:
    
    CTA-Spain:   full IKC for CTA-N + software for CTA-S
    
    Hadrware for CTA-S: directly pruchase by CTAO ???
    
    UVScope: IKC of ASTRI, should one UVScope be included for CTA-N? (Support of the Illuminator)
  - 20
    CTA-N infrastructure for CCF equipment
    
    Speaker: Carla Crovari
    
    CTAN Infrastructure for CCF equipment.pdf
    
    Markus will send an updated excel spreadsheet for infrastructure questions to the corresponding parties.
    
    CTA-N phase 2 will probably need 3-4 years (e.g. the technical building probably complete in 2021)
    
    Infrastructure is probably ready in Q2 of 2019
    
    CTAO will produce all foundations at once
    
    There is a parallel session dedicated to INFRA @ CTA-N on Tuesday afternoon, during the general meeting, also a visit to ORM is foreseen
    
    Dusan comments on the need to have soon reliable power and internet connection in CTA-S, also maintenance of instruments is difficult
    
    Plans are to use intially a power generator, however nothing major is expected to happen before 1-1.5 years from now.
  - 21
    
    Status of Use Cases
    
    Speaker: Franca Cassol (CNRS/IN2P3/CPPM)
    
    CTA_UseCases_Cassol.pdf
  - 22
    
    Calibration data flow in ctapipe
    
    Speakers: Franca Cassol (CNRS/IN2P3/CPPM), Markus Gaug (UAB Barcelona, Spain)
    
    CalibrationDataFlow_v0.3.pdf
    
    NewTerminology.pdf
  - 23
    
    Publications
    
    Speaker: Maria Concetta Maccarone (IASF-Palermo/INAF, Istituto di Astrofisica Spaziale e Fisica Cosmica di Palermo/Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica)
    
    CCF_Publications_20171003_MCM.pdf
- 11:00
  
  Coffee break
- Common issues
  - 24
    
    Split between CTAO and CTAC Calibration activities
    
    Speakers: Gernot Maier (DESY), Markus Gaug (UAB Barcelona, Spain)
  - 25
    
    Architecture, Requirements and Interfaces from CTAO
    
    Speaker: Alison Mitchell (Max-Planck-Institut fuer Kernphysik)
    
    CalibOct17CTAO.pdf
- Array Calibration
  - 26
    
    Update on Illuminator status
    
    Speaker: Alberto Segreto (INAF-IASF Palermo)
    
    ASTRI_Illuminator_Barcelona_2017.pdf
  - 27
    
    Update on muon preselection in ASTRI
    
    Speaker: Maria Concetta Maccarone (IASF-Palermo/INAF, Istituto di Astrofisica Spaziale e Fisica Cosmica di Palermo/Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica)
    
    MCMaccarone_Preselect_muons_20171004.pdf
- 13:00
  
  Lunch
- Array Calibration
  - 28
    
    CTC for array calibration
    
    Speaker: Stanislav Stefanik (Charles University in Prague)
    
    ctc_2.pdf
  - 29
    
    Muon analysis in ctapipe
    
    Speaker: Alison Mitchell (Max-Planck-Institut fuer Kernphysik)
    
    MuonCalibCtapipeOct17.pdf
Thursday 5 October
- Array Calibration
  - 30
    Towards the muon calibration paper
    
    Speakers: Maria Concetta Maccarone (IASF-Palermo/INAF, Istituto di Astrofisica Spaziale e Fisica Cosmica di Palermo/Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica), Markus Gaug (UAB Barcelona, Spain)
    
    Introduction - ready
    
    Review of muon spectra and fluxes: ready
    
    Review of the method: ready
    
    4 & 5: Merge, shorten and generalize: Markus
    
    6: Intensity fitting: Update with log-likelihood (Alison's thesis): Alison
    
    6.2, 6.3, 6.4: Shorten and move to Section 5: Markus
    
    7: Systematic Uncertainties: core of the paper, perhaps shorten a bit, if possible: Markus
    
    8: Simulations: core of the paper
    
    keep an introduction mentionning the CORSIKA flags, and used site (atmosphere)
    
    remove all further group-specific information
    
    redo all simulations with Prob3b, and ctapipe
    
    ask Gernot about status for Prob3b (updates from telescopes such that MC corresponds to current designs): ready for LST, SST-1M, ASTRI, ongoing for GCT, FlashCam, NectarCam, MST structure and MST-SC.
    
    Common plots for all telescopes:
    
    Bias and Resolution of all parameters used to derive the muon efficiency: as a function of muon energy, and as a function of mirror degradation (perhaps also as a function of impact parameter and inclination angle, have to see how big they are).
    
    Gaussianity of distributions
    
    Linearity of distributions
    
    Further plots will be suggested by Alison in a list at the beginning of this section
    
    9: Muon flagging in camera server: Cettina
    
    too much ASTRI focused
    
    needs to get updated with latest results (shown at this meeting)
    
    include speed of algorithms
    
    include Q-factor (perhaps as function of muon energy?)
    
    include additional data rate obtained if the flagging is active
    
    10: Trigger strategies and expected rates: Markus
    
    need updated MC simulations
    
    11: Discussion: Markus
    
    rewrite according to results obtained from simulations
    
    table 6 can stay (slightly updated)
    
    remove all internal new requirements
    
    12: Conclusions: all
    
    write at the end, same for abstract
    
    Schedules:
    
    full text w/o chapter 8: 27/11/2017
    
    full simulation chain with ctapipe including plots: end of 2017
    
    Further topics:
    
    Discuss effect of large square camera for MST (effects of inclination angle), plots from Steve Fegan
    
    Appendix revisited formulae for 2M telescopes: will be revisited by Alison and Teresa
    
    Technical comparison of algorithm for generic telescope: might go in a separate paper, Alison to decide
- 11:00
  
  Coffee break
- Array Calibration
  - 31
    
    Towards the muon calibration paper
    
    Speakers: Maria Concetta Maccarone (IASF-Palermo/INAF, Istituto di Astrofisica Spaziale e Fisica Cosmica di Palermo/Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica), Markus Gaug (UAB Barcelona, Spain)
- 13:00
  
  Lunch