Re: LCS-2 proposal. The second draft.

[Elaine Sadler <ems@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dear Leonid,

Many thanks for preparing this proposal. It looks good 
to me, and my only small comment is to suggest replacing
'X-band' in the cover-sheet abstract by either '8 GHz'
or 'X-band (8 GHz)'. At the ATNF, the use of these letter
bands is not very common and most proposals just specify
an observing frequency.

I would be very interested to see the flux-density estimates
for the souces observed in previous runs. Are these likely
to be available soon?

Best wishes,

Elaine

On Sat, 13 Dec 2008, Leonid Petrov wrote:

> 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 scientific goals of proposers for
> > creation of a homogeneous
> > flux 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