Steering Executive Committee Meeting (PPT)

• Agenda: September 21
• Update from LUNAR-central
• Overviews of Key Project
• Lunar Laser Ranging Group
• Heliophysics Key Project
• Low Frequency Cosmology & Astrophysics
• Augustine Report
• SMD Funding
• Update from LUNAR-central

• Day 2 (PPT)

DREAM: Dynamic Response of the Environment at the Moon (PPT)

• To advance lunar research, NASA Planetary Division formed virtual institutes (like NAI) to pursue dedicated theme-based lunar science topics…
• “Of the Moon, On the Moon, From the Moon”
• LSI-Central at ARC (also run  the LSI-Forum)
• Summer 2008 released the NLSI CAN
• Teams or nodes are sub-elements under LSI central direction

Challenge: Low frequency foreground – hot, confused sky (PPT)

• HI 21cm signal ~ 10 mK
• Foreground:  T ~ 100 (v/200 MHz)^-2.6 K
• Highly ‘confused’: 1 source/deg^2 with S140 > 1 Jy

Part 1: Murchison Widefield Array EoR Studies Update (PPT)

• 32T deployment Antenna characterization
• EoR COLLABORATION MEMBERSHIP
• MWA: 32 tiles installed at the Murchison Radio Observatory

Part 2: NRAO-MIT-JPL Collaboration To Develop LRA Antennas (including deployment) (PPT)

• Murchison Widefield Array Sensitivity (Bowman, Morales & Hewitt 2006)
• Fiducial Lunar Arrays
• LARC Concept: Boundaries set by three fiducial arrays
• Tall Pole:  Antenna Technology/Design
• Self-Tending Array Node and Communications Element (STANCE)
• Orbcomm characterization of beams may need differential measurement
• Deployment

LUNAR Grants Program: Progress Report (PPT)

• Study Grant program: 100k total per year
• 4 - 5 proposals to be funded
• Theory, Instrumentation and Concept Studies
• Ideas uniquely enabled by the lunar surface and/or Constellation architecture

Simulations of the Dark Ages: Initial Plans (PPT)

• Initial Simulation Plans
• Simulation Setup
• Source Population Parameter Study

Radio Heliophysics Key Project Update, J. Kasper (PPTX)

• Team
• Goals
  • A small low frequency array on the near side of the moon to determine where electrons are accelerated in the corona
• Science Tasks
  • Look for evidence of low-frequency radio transients in existing data
  • Characterize lunar radio frequency interference environment
• Array Development Tasks
  • Conduct observations with similar array on ground
  • Refine traceability matrix
• Pathfinder Tasks
  • Identify pathfinder missions
  • Technology development and characterization studies

Radio Heliophysics Key Project Update (Part II), R. MacDowall (PPT)

• Wind Waves RAD2 plan-AGU presentation
• GSFC PF antenna work planned (fall 2009) 
• GSFC ULP-ULT plan (FY10) - Returned all FY09 funding to HQ 
• Chandrayaan-2 deployer/issues

Lunar Laser Ranging (LLR) within LUNAR, Tom Murphy et al. (PPT)

• Fundamental incompatibility of QM and GR - Improve our tests of GR
• Dark Energy may be misunderstanding of large-scale gravity - Dvali idea replaces with leaky gravity -> lunar precession
• Inflation may have left residual scalar fields (inflaton) - generic result is violation of EP and changing constants
• Dark Matter inspires alternative gravity models (MOND) - test of inverse square law could reveal