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WSO-UV Field Camera Unit meeting
toward the ISRR

23-25 Ottobre 2007

INAF- Osservatorio Astrofisico di Catania, via Santa Sofia 78

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Goal

Review on the status of FCU activities, of interfaces issues, and of deliverables documents for the ISRR.

Agenda

Oct 23 2007

11:00-11:05 Welcome (G. Strazzulla)

11:05-11:25 Update on the international collaboration for the WSO-UV project (B. Shustov)

11:25-11:35 Update on the Italian participation to WSO-UV (I. Pagano)

11:35-11:50 The Field Camera Unit: a brief presentations of the whole project (S. Scuderi)

11:50-12:50 FCU Optical Design (update, tolerance analysis, Filters, Grism/prism) (G. Gambicorti, D. Magrin, M. Munari)

12:50-13:10 NUV spectro-polarimetric mode: an update (E. Pace)

13:10-13:30 Discussion

13:30-15:00 Lunch

15:00-15:30 FCU thermal issues (C. Pontoni) 

15:30-16:00 Opto-mechanical Structure of the FCU (C. Pontoni) 

16:00-16:30 FCU electronic system (M. Fiorini, M. Miccolis) 

16:30-17:00 Coffee Break

17:00-17:30 FCU Data Handling (A. Gherardi, M. Miccolis)

17:30-18:00 Discussion

20:45 Social Dinner

Oct 24 2007

09:30-10:00 Calibration unit (M. Munari, S. Scuderi)

10:00-10:30 Front-end electronics for FCU Detectors (S. Scuderi, M. Uslenghi) 

10:30-10:50 FCU Detectors- MCPs: an update (M. Uslenghi)

10:50-11:10 FCU Detectors- CCDs: an update (S. Scuderi)

11:10-11:40  Coffee Break

11:40-12:10 Instrument compartment Thermal Design (M. Iliasov)

12:10-12:30 Science Documents (G. Piotto, D. De Martino)

12:30-13:00 Filters specifications (C. Cacciari)

13:00-14:30 Lunch

14:30-15:10 Verification on the feasibility of science objectives by means of simulations on the astrometric and photometric accuracy achivable by the FCU (G. Piotto, S. Villanova)

15:10-15:30 Requirements from pre-reduction procedures (M. Nonino) 

15:30-16:10 FCU Calibration Plan  (R. Claudi)

16:10-16:30 FGS status (M. Sachkov)

16:30-17:00 Coffee Break

17:00-18:30 Calibration Plan WG meeting

Free time for other participants

Oct 25 2007

09:30-09:50 OGSE Plans (E. Pace)

09:50-10:20 GSE plans (F. Gianotti, E. Pace)

10:20-10:40 AIV plans (A. Bulgarelli, M. Trifoglio) 

10:40-10:55 WSO-UV AIV concept (M. Iliasov)

10:55-11:20 FCU Model philosophy (S. Scuderi)

11:20-11:50 Coffee Break

11:50-12:20 Focal Assembly alignment procedures (M. Iliasov)

12:20-12:35 Programmatics phase B2/C/D/E) (I. Pagano) 

12:35-12:50 Open questions from the Russian Team for the FCU Team (M. Sachkov)

12:50-13:20 Open questions from the FCU Team for the Russian Team (S. Scuderi)

13:15-14:45 Lunch

14:45-15:30 Minutes and action items (FCU Team and Russian Team)