The CASCA/ACURA TMT Advisory Committee
Contact:
Email:mbalogh@uwaterloo.ca
Phone: 519 888 4567 x37518
Recent News
- Feb 4, 2021: House Speaker Scott Saiki has announced that he would like to see a new management structure of Mauna Kea to replace UH. See the full story here, as well as a response from UH, here.
- Dec 31, 2020:State-commissioned independent Evaluation of the Maunakea Comprehensive Management Plan is released. The review was led by Dawn Naomi S. Chang of Ku`iwalu
- Dec 24, 2020: Read CATAC’s article for the latest Cassiopeia newsletter
- Dec 12, 2020: CATAC report to CASCA Board is published
- Dec 4, 2020: The TMT Exoplanet Roadmap Committee is considering the prioritization of desired exoplanet capabilities for planned second-generation TMT instruments: PSI, MICHI and HROS. The prioritization would be a function of the various instrument modes (imaging, spectroscopy, polarimetry) and their implementation (resolution, IFU, choice of wavelengths/bands). A summary of these capabilities is available here. Input from the Canadian community is welcome and we have prepared an Excel template to record your prioritization here. Please complete this and send it to Stan Metchev (smetchev@uwo.ca). To be most useful we would like your responses by Monday Jan 11.
- Sept 23, 2020: Read CATAC’s article for the latest Cassiopeia newsletter
- Aug 18, 2020: National Science Foundation (NSF) has initiated an informal outreach process to engage stakeholders interested in the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) project. See the NSF statement and press release from Speaker Saiki.
Documents and Reports
- May 2021 CATAC report to CASCA Board
- March 2021 update for CASCA Cassiopeia
- Dec 2020 CATAC report to CASCA Board
- Sept 2020 update for CASCA Cassiopeia
- June 2020 update for CASCA Cassiopeia
- May 2020 CATAC report
- March 2020 update for CASCA Cassiopeia
- Dec 2019 CATAC report
- Dec 2019 update for CASCA Cassiopeia article
- Resources and information on TMT and Maunakea
- CATAC Report to LRP2020 (Final)
- Sept 2019 update for CASCA Cassiopeia
- TMT update from Balogh and Thacker (July 31 2019)
- Report to BLNR re: THINK fund
- Final CATAC Report on TMT Instrumentation
- June 2019 update for CASCA Cassiopeia
- June 2019 CATAC report
- March 2019 update for CASCA Cassiopeia
- Dec 2018 update for CASCA Cassiopeia
- Nov 2018 CATAC Report
- Sept 2018 update for CASCA Cassiopeia
- June 2018 update for CASCA Cassiopeia
- May 2018 CATAC Report
- CATAC recommendations for WFOS (Final)
- March 2018 update for CASCA Cassiopeia
- Dec 2017 CATAC Report
- Dec 2017 update for CASCA Cassiopeia
- Sept 2017 update for CASCA Cassiopeia
- June 2017 update for CASCA Cassiopeia
- May 2017 CATAC Report
- March 2017 update for CASCA Cassiopeia
- CATAC Terms of Reference
Selected CATAC meetings
| Date | Topic | Public or closed | Support Documentation |
| Jan 15, 2019 | Adaptive Secondary Mirror for TMT | Closed (with Glen Herriot, NRC) | |
| Dec 19, 2017 | WFOS update (Bundy) | closed | WFOS presentation |
| Sept 26, 2017 | Presentation from Ed Stone and Gary Sanders | open | |
| March 28 | bMICHI Minutes |
public | Packham presentation |
| March 21 | AO performance of TMT@ORM Discussion slides Minutes |
public | Vernin et al. (2011) TMT Image quality at Mauna Kea and LaPalma (Hickson, updated Mar 24) Response to above (Schoeck/Vogiatzis) |
| March 14 | ORM Site Characteristics (minutes) | closed | Schoeck Presentation |
| March 7 | What do Canadians expect from an ELT? (Minutes) | public | |
| Feb 21 | First light instrumentation (minutes) Presentation (Simard) |
public | |
| Feb 7 | Update from Board and SAC meetings | closed | |
| Jan 24, 2017 | Kickoff meeting | closed |
Links
- The Thirty Meter Telescope
- Evaluation of the Mauna Kea Comprehensive Management Plan
- Submission to the UC Regents with a useful summary of activities related to TMT
- TMT on La Palma or Maunakea – Webinar Presentation May, 2017
- TMT YouTube channel
- TMT Detailed Science Case 2015
- IRIS science cases and simulations
- European Extremely Large Telescope Site Characterization I: Overview
- WFOS-MOBIE_OCDD
- WFOS-HIA_OCDD
- ACURA
- CASCA
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