Dear conveners,
as mentioned in ap-, it- and ops- calls, we plan to prepare the case for a
further extension of HESS into 2025. This case is not meant to be an
enormous amount of work to generate a heavy document. It is rather an
opportunity for all members of the collaboration to propose changes to our
strategy for running HESS, such as, e.g., new science approaches, new
procedures and ways of calibrating data to get better results. We aim for
making improvements based on our experience and shape the observing
program such that we will cover the most attractive science questions.
I would like to encourage you once more to entertain discussions in
forthcoming meetings of your working groups.
We would like to arrange a <1h meeting among all conveners in the next week
to discuss any suggestions that you might want to put forward and how to
best collect further input.
As a second topic we want to discuss the options for a collaboration
meeting in the next few months.
Please indicate your availability on this poll:
https://terminplaner4.dfn.de/f4B26Z9tXJW7hkW5
In a separate mail I request input from the HESS group leaders concerning a
collaboration meeting in the next few months.
Best regards,
Stefan,
for the hess-ec
Dear AP conveners, dear OC colleagues,
as we have agreed, we will have an exchange of information between AP
conveners and OC members after proposal submission and before evaluation
by the OC. Besides E-Mails (or a secured confluence page), a common
telecon between the two groups will be organized.
To optimize attendance, Anita and I would like to freeze the date for
the telecon (that can only happen in the week of January 11-15, 2021)
already in the next days. A doodle for the possible dates is here:
https://doodle.com/poll/st5cvyuigqdu3yf7
It would be great if you (AP conveners and OC members) could fill this
in latest by beginnning of next week, i.e. until Monday, October 26,
12am (noon).
Best, Gerd
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Gerd Puehlhofer Gerd.Puehlhofer(a)astro.uni-tuebingen.de
IAAT, Sand 1, D-72076 Tuebingen, Germany
Tel.: +49-7071-29-74982 Fax: +49-7071-29-3458
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Dear all,
as we had not been complete in yesterday's call the following is via mail.
It affects all working groups in all departments but implementation differs.
We have completed the first year in office and are all very busy with
dozens of meetings and lots of work.
Nonetheless we should step back and check whether we are still on course
or left anything idle.
After the first year of the extension, I added requests to the old working
group pages (e.g. the former Galactic Working group and Extragalactic
Working Group pages), referring to the new groups and went through the
projects that had been started in the old groups and are still kept on
their pages.
Some have been have been closed, others continue well, few have migrated
into the new groups but some appear dormant.
I would like to ask you to check the status of the projects started more
than a year ago. Early next year we should check which old projects have
stalled and decide about their fate.
Following our Astrophysics October meeting, we listed and linked
"Status reports of working groups of the astrophysics department:"
on the collaboration meeting place:
https://hess-confluence.desy.de/confluence/pages/viewpage.action?spaceKey=H…
(you may obviously also link them on your working group pages),
but are still missing a few. In case you plan to have a summary for your
group that is not yet uploaded, please add to the collection.
I would like to reiterate the request for suggestions for the Source of
the Month. Please send suggestions to me (we need two per astrophysics
working group per year on average) and/or call for proposals within your
working groups.
Best regards,
Stefan