MW campaign on 1es1959+650 (Sep-Nov 2008):
Roadmap for the data analysis, interpretation and publication
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Now that the observations have been already performed, we need to work towards the analysis and the interpretation of those observations. One or more publications will come out from these efforts. The steps we want to undertake are 1) data reduction and data submission, 2) Interpretation of the reduced data and 3) Publication. In the paragraphs below we expand somewhat those steps:
1 - Data reduction and data submission
The campaign spanned from September 20th till November 5th. However, due to the low brightness of this source at GeV energies, we decided to use Fermi data from August 2008 up to March 2009 in order to have a more significant detection. This is the first time that this source is detected at GeV energies and we want to characterize the high energy component as good as possible. Therefore, any data at other frequencies (radio to TeV) belonging to this period of time (Aug2008-Mar2009) is very much appreciated.
The different groups will analyze the data from the observations, and will produce files with the format described in the Data format web page. The collaborations or proposal PIs are the responsibles for the data reduction and the reliability (best efforts) of the results.
We'll be organizing a virtual (EVO) meeting where the different groups can report on their respective data analysis. This will allow the participants of the campaign to have a good overall picture of all the individual instrument results. The pdf/ppt files from this meeting will be archived and made available to the others for future references. The tentative date for the virtual meeting is end of April. You will hear from us by mid April. Note that the actual agenda containing the reports will be pass-protected. You will get the login/pass after agreement of the data policy requirements specified here .
2 - Interpretation of the reduced data
All groups who participated in the campaign and agree (sign) the Data Policy agreement will have access to all the observational (reduced) data from this campaign, and thus will be able to participate (if they wished) in the physical interpretation of the overall data set. The data will be accessible through the Data Access web page.
We'll organize several (weekly or biweekly) virtual (EVO) meetings to discuss the results from the different people/groups contributing to the interpretation of the data. We hope we can reach convergence within 1 or 1.5 months (that is roughly May 2009). The agreed results will be the prime material for the combined data (MW) publication. The reports (pdf/ppt) from these meetings will be archived and made available to all the participants.
3 - Publication of the results
One or more MW publications could be produced (depending on the results found). The first MW publication will provide a rather straighforward (little bias or high concensus among MW campaign participants) interpretation of the broad-band observational results. Additional MW publications could be done from a different (perhaps more biased) perspective, or could address additional topics using (or not) a more extended set of the observational results, which should probably have been published in the single instrument publications.
The author list in these publications will be a list of the people who bring data which are used in the MWL publication, as well as people contributing to the physical interpretation of the results. Participants bringing data that are not used in the publication, will not be part of the author list.
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