Tianlai Collaboration Meeting
Zoom
Minutes
Shifan presented a draft of his paper "Analysis of the Power Statistics for the Tianlai All-Sky Intensity Mapping Survey". He is happy for people to look it over and make comments. Link to the paper on Overleaf was shared on email and in the Zoom chat. (No link here for security reasons.)
Some questions: Reza and Peter asked about contamination from the Sun during daytime observations. Shifan reported that only 1 hr of data is cut during transit of the Sun. However, the noise level during the rest of the day is indeed higher than at night. Reza points out that CHIME uses only night-time data -- would our results look better if we did the same?
Jixia has volunteered to update us next time on the status of dish array observations of constant - declination strips. He notes that efforts are underway to reduce RFI in the TDA, so no new data have been obtained in at least a year.
21 cm Cosmology Workshop - Xin Wang is working on a poster
14 members attended the call; Alessandro Marins and Filipe Abdalla joined for the first time. Alessandro is visiting Beijing and will visit Xuelei's group.