SUGGESTIONS

From White Papers received as of 10/06/14

LSST FOLLOW-UP• Keep SOAR for dedicated rapid spectroscopic follow-up

• Buy in to Subaru PFS, or GMACS on GMT, or new instrument on Gemini for photo-z training

• Set up event broker (marshal) for transients – need protocols, algorithms, databases

• Grants for LSST follow-up observing, purchase of smaller telescope time

• Level 3 data products and tools need support

• Interested observatories offer 10% open access for fed purchase. How to achieve sign-on?• Maintain partial federal share of 4m in N. • Have NOAO act as clearing house for observing coordination• Revitalize TSIP-like program?• Trade off observing time on private telescope for public telescope to access different instruments and avoid duplication of instruments• Set up an entity that coordinates all of above • Consider “Open Access Market” for allocating time across system capabilities.• Break down silos as signified by access to federal and non-federal facilities• DESI- make sure it happens; buy DESI bright time, arrange community access to 1-3 dark nights/lunation, keep Mayall open till DESI, extend DESI 5 yrs after DES, use unused fibers during DESI; move DESI to Blanco afterwards • Fund community access to nights on 20-30 meter class telescopes.• Provide training and access to optical interferometry facilities

THE SYSTEMUS needs a vital OIR system - how to implement that?

INSTRUMENTATION

• Need wide field low-medium resolution multiplexed spectroscopy

• Need optical interferometry and polarimetry

• Need multiconjugate AO on large telescopes; coronography

• Need technology development funds on high risk instrumentation areas for ELTs

• Need OIR spectroscopy on 4-8m such as KOSKOSM

SOFTWARE AND DATA

• Have data center(s) that provide archiving and computing capabilities

• Need modern replacement for IRAF with standardized protocols and expandable software

• Support development of data analysis software that is fully compatible with various pipelines

TRAINING AND EARLY CAREER

• Have workshops on astroinformatics and astrostatistics, data mining, instrumentation, software

• Revitalize undergrad, grad training with holistic approach to designing, building, testing instruments and supporting software

• Allow purchase of small-medium telescope time from grants, or federal purchase of block of telescope time

• Teach more astrostatistics and informatics, instrumentation, computing