Gorski (JPL) gave a nice talk on the Planck mission, drawing particular attention to comparisons with COBE and WMAP in design, survey strategy, and data analysis. He showed surprising evidence for anisotropy in the WMAP maps, although certainly did not advocate that our Universe is anisotropic! He has been working on high-end data analysis for the Planck mission with supercomputing facilities.
During the rest of the day, I generated a lot of tickets (bug reports) on the Astrometry.net management system related to funding (grrr) and our upcoming USNO-B clean
data release. Lang and I spent a short phonecon with the VAMP team regarding meta data standards. I also discussed observational handles on the dark-matter component of the Milky Way with Zolotov.
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