LCS-2 proposal. The second draft.

[Leonid Petrov <Leonid.Petrov@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dear colleagues,

  Please find the second revision of the proposal at

ftp://lacerta.gsfc.nasa.gov/pub/for_lcs/lba_dec2008_rev2.tex
ftp://lacerta.gsfc.nasa.gov/pub/for_lcs/LBA_Calibrator_Survey-2_rev2.xml
ftp://lacerta.gsfc.nasa.gov/pub/for_lcs/LBA_Calibrator_Survey-2_rev2.pdf

  I've made corrections suggested by Alessandra, Chris, and Sergei. My
wife suggested to change colors of the plot. Sigh. I did it as well.

> "Although the main purpose of the proposed experiments is community  
> service, these obser-
> vations will also address long-term scienti�c goals of proposers for  
> creation of a homogeneous
> �ux limited sample of compact sources. The sample will allow to  
> investigating various statis-
> tics."
> 
> I really did not follow this. You should certainly as a little more  
> about what sort of statistics your are going to investigate. The  

  I reworded that part. One of the complaints of reviewers to our 
previous VLBA Survey proposals was that we offered no science. 
That is why I tried to add a scientific justification of these observations.

> Table 1. It is not clear to me how the Northern calibrator list can  
> have less sources but higher probability of finding a close by  
> calibrator.

  I remade this table using 2008b_astro catalogue. The numbers changed 
slightly. The distribution of compact radio sources is far from uniform,
partly due to a bias in candidate selection, partly due to a large scale
irregularities in the structure of the Universe. By the way, the study of
these irregularities is the major motivation of conducting calibrators 
surveys for me.

  I will submit the proposal tomorrow, on Sunday, 2008.12.14. Please send
me your comments as soon as possible.

Leonid
13-DEC-2008 13:03:42