Dear Stefan, Dear Gerd,

Thank you, I understand. That makes sense.

Please accept my apologies again for the meeting today, due to another long-standing commitment (that one, like so many, also being an online meeting nowadays). If there are any specific items where the OC needs information from me in advance of its decisions, may I suggest I take them by email? I might even be able to answer brief questions in real time this afternoon.

I only have one general strategic comment, and I am clear in the understanding that this does not feed into any judgement/ranking of individual proposals. It is my view that in this closing period pf the current agreement, it is in the best scientific interests of the collaboration to give due prominence to topics that have some degree of novelty, e.g. new classes of sources, or prototypes of significant categories of target that have not yet been observed in earlier operations;  or where there’s some higher scientific level of risk; while maintaining some core of the very long monitoring projects.

Of course, the proposals themselves must stand to be judged to achieve this aim.

All the best,

Garret

From: Hess-ap <hess-ap-bounces@lsw.uni-heidelberg.de>
Date: Tuesday, 12 January 2021 at 18:49
To: Hess-ap <hess-ap@lsw.uni-heidelberg.de>
Cc: "Gerd Pühlhofer" <Gerd.Puehlhofer@astro.uni-tuebingen.de>
Subject: Re: [Hess-ap] Questions by the OC

Dear all,

Apparently there has been a misunderstanding on several fronts. Iterating
with Gerd, I understand the OC-members-at-large suggest to address
questions that might emerge with the astrophysics WG conveners at
tomorrow's  meeting along with any comments on general strategic
importance from the  working group point's of view.
Questions on technical/analysis matters will be distributed to Operations,
IT and Instruments (who do not provide comments of their own)

Best regards,
Stefan

> HI Fabian,
>
> I have had no questions either,
>
> Cheers,
>
> Garret
>
> From: Hess-ap <hess-ap-bounces@lsw.uni-heidelberg.de>
> Date: Tuesday, 12 January 2021 at 11:31
> To: Hess-ap <hess-ap@lsw.uni-heidelberg.de>
> Subject: [Hess-ap] Questions by the OC
> Hi all,
>
> during our call last week Anita mentioned that we would receive questions
> about points in the proposals that the OC may consider unclear. This would
> allow us to prepare the meeting with the OC tomorrow.
>
> Quick check; did anyone of you receive such questions? I did not, but
> maybe the ToO proposals are just perfectly clear ;-)
>
> Cheers,
> Fabian
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