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Larry Esposito
UVIS Team
12 August 2005
UVIS TEAM MEETING
24-27 July 2005
DLR Berlin –Adlershof
Meeting Summary
The overall status of the Cassini project and UVIS is very good. We have some spectacular results; the spacecraft is operating without flaw, we have dodged several budget cuts. The UVIS team is now settling down to analyzing data and publishing results. The prospect for an extended mission seems good, although the funding is not secured. NASA plans to announce a Cassini Data Analysis Program this fall, with proposals due 90 days after.
We are looking for possible sensitivity changes near Lyman alpha. The HSP tube is behaving anomalously, and we will be more careful bout using it. HDAC now has sensitivity near 50 counts/sec/R. The night side of Titan is the darkest target seen yet. H and D modulation is less than expected: Measuring the D/H ration may be difficult. A mysteriously bad IEB has been replaced and we now have no recurrence of the S11
ICYLON problem in EUV.
We still have some issues about flat-fielding. Please send concerns to Bill. For now, no changes in procedure.
For the latest science results, scan the presentations on the Website. If your presentation is not there, send it to Laura ASAP!
All team members should aim toward presenting and publishing our results. An
Enceladus special issue is planned. Candy will co-ordinate our inputs. We have good representation at upcoming professional meetings, including MOP, DPS, AGU, Dust,
LPSC, and EGU.
Team Meeting Calendar
4 – 6 January 2006
10 – 12 July 2006
CalTech
Boulder
Host: Bob West
Host: Larry Esposito and Laura Bloom
Attached
Please see following action item list on page 2.
A revised UVIS Team communications list file is attached (Excel) to this e-mail.
The agenda, as well as this document and the comm. list, are on the team Website for your reference or download.

Action Items
TASK ASSIGNED TO
Calibration update, flat-field update
McClintock
Address row-row variation. Pryor
Compare to Leige auroral data.
HOAC write-up for PDS.
Reulke
T9 Preparations.
SSR loading report check data problems
Jouchoux
Continuing Phoebe and other satellite analysis.
Lyman-alpha calibration for background subtraction.
Compare flat fields.
Consider intimate mixtures.
Hendrix
Characterize methane inhomogenity.
Model development.
Geometer Cube Tool to LB
Larsen
Investigate puzzling absorption at 1300 Å.
Hansen
Publish statistical results Sremcevic
Titan aerosols and Saturn West data.
Path-length radiation models for mixtures.
Esposito
DUE BY
4 January 2006
Fall AGU meeting
Fall AGU meeting
31 July
Before T9
19 August 2005
Ongoing
Ongoing
Ongoing
Ongoing
Ongoing
Ongoing
31 August 2005
Ongoing
September
Ongoing
September
Completed
Completed