Re: [Hess-ap] HESS AP meeting minutes

Hi Jacco, hi all, As I couldn’t join the meeting the morning, please find here a few short notes from the Transients WG: * ICRC 2023: status reports of all proposed analyses during the last WG call (minutes<https://hess-confluence.desy.de/confluence/display/HESS/Transient+WG:+Zoom+meeting+2023-05-15>) * All analyses on track for successful A&R review * GRB catalog changed to poster => to be withdrawn from ICRC and resubmitted as talk at TeVPA * TDE task group: previous coordinator (Iryna) left the collaboration => Sabrina Einecke is taking over * Gravitational waves * O4 scheduled to start on May 24 (only Ligo; Virgo is undergoing repairs and will not join before autumn; details for example here<https://www.science.org/content/article/damage-delays-restart-italy…) * engineering run ongoing: first alert yesterday (May 18); most likely a neutron star + back hole merger => HESS ToO with 3 full runs; RTA hotspot under investigation Cheers, Fabian --------------------------------------------- Fabian Schüssler CEA Irfu DPhP Bât. 141, 153b 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette Cedex, France Tel.: +33 1 69 08 30 20 Homepage<http://www.multimessenger-astronomy.com/> + Gamma-Catcher<https://gamma-catcher.com> + Astro-COLIBRI<https://astro-colibri.com/> Le 19 mai 2023 à 11:47, Jacco Vink <j.vink@uva.nl<mailto:j.vink@uva.nl>> a écrit : Dear All, Please find attached the minutes of todays meeting. In italics the action items, or things that need your attention. Best regards, Jacco -- Present: Alicja Wierzcholska<https://hess-confluence.desy.de/confluence/display/~wierzcholska> ,Brian Reville<https://hess-confluence.desy.de/confluence/display/~brian.reville>, Jacco Vink<https://hess-confluence.desy.de/confluence/display/~j.vink> ,Jonathan Mackey<https://hess-confluence.desy.de/confluence/display/~jonathan.mackey> , Kathrin Egberts<https://hess-confluence.desy.de/confluence/display/~kathrin.egberts>, Matteo Cerruti<https://hess-confluence.desy.de/confluence/display/~cerruti> , Stefan Wagner<https://hess-confluence.desy.de/confluence/display/~swagner> Absent: Fabian Schüssler<https://hess-confluence.desy.de/confluence/display/~fabian.schussler> , Dieter Horns<https://hess-confluence.desy.de/confluence/display/~dieter.horns> * Welcome * ICRC Status: * Iterated that only those results can be shown for which realistically a paper is ready fro submission around ICRC meeting * Some contributions seem not to meet this criterion * All WG conveners check readiness of proposed ICRC contributions within their WGs * A new column is added "Approved by WG" to contribution table. Only those that are approved can be presented. See ICRC 2023 and other conferences in July/August 2023<https://hess-confluence.desy.de/confluence/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=477036545> * Migration from Confluence to Wiki: * Will be completed by late autumn 2023 * Migration handled by IT dept * Action will be required from institute leaders * WG conveners: may want to "clean up" their pages * Check out links to pre-2019 pages in old WG structure * Once migration completed: check all is well * Most of the above concerns the period after summer * Round of WGs: * CRsWG / Kathrin Egberts<https://hess-confluence.desy.de/confluence/display/~kathrin.egberts> : * electrons go well, very stable results, intense work, low systematics * paper draft preliminary stage * Diffuse WG/ Sabrina Casanova<https://hess-confluence.desy.de/confluence/display/~sabrina.casanova> : * No ICRC contributions from diffuse group * All projects presented at HESS Spring meeting * WT on molecular cloud expected → make sure not to interfere with WTs for ICRCs * Stellar WG/ Jonathan Mackey<https://hess-confluence.desy.de/confluence/display/~jonathan.mackey>: * SS433 submitted to Scienc * Arache/Vela psr: nothing communicated yet to WG, Jonathan requested information * New WG meeting today: updates expected from B1259 and LMC projects * Eta Car: good progress * Westerlund 2: no news yet * Flares from microquasars: progresses well (presented at transients WG) * SNRPP/ Brian Reville<https://hess-confluence.desy.de/confluence/display/~brian.reville> : * No papers submitted lately * Papers by Tina Wach well advanced * Since joint stellar/SNRPP meetings: need to clarify for projects which WG * New Galactic plane survey results: doubtful if ready for ICRC * Stefan: needs scrutiny from all HESS active * AGN/ Matteo Cerruti<https://hess-confluence.desy.de/confluence/display/~cerruti> : * WG call will be this Monday * ICRC related: * New M87 paper is accepted and on ArXiv * M87 spectral paper: draft promised but not seen yet (resulted presented at HESS coll. meeting) * PKS 1510: draft went through collaboration review * Soon new draft expected on M87 MW campaign with EHT * OT 081: waiting for an updated from the MAGIC collaboration * MW/ Alicja Wierzcholska<https://hess-confluence.desy.de/confluence/display/~wierzcholska> : * No major news * New A&R procedures regarding Fermi-LAT data well received * AOB/Closing * Not certain whether next call will be on June 9. AP dept will be informed later. =============================== Dr. Jacco Vink Associate Professor in Astrophysics Anton Pannekoek Institute/GRAPPA Science Park 904, Room C4.150 1098 XH Amsterdam, The Netherlands j.vink@uva.nl<mailto:j.vink@uva.nl>/+31 20 525 7068 https://staff.fnwi.uva.nl/j.vink =============================== -- Hess-ap mailing list Hess-ap@lsw.uni-heidelberg.de<mailto:Hess-ap@lsw.uni-heidelberg.de> https://srv1n.lsw.uni-heidelberg.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hess-ap