IAU Colloquium 156

To: Observers and Modellers of K,L and/or R impacts
From: R. West (K/L/R Workshop Convener)

Re.: K/L/R Integrating Workshop at IAU Colloquium 156

Date: April 18, 1995

Dear Colleagues,

This message concerns the organisation of the above Workshop, lasting 75 minutes and now scheduled at 14:00 - 15:15 on May 10 during IAU Colloquium 156 at the STSci in Baltimore.

Please note that further information about this meeting can be obtained via the WWW page at:

http://www.stsci.edu/ftp/meetings/jupiter-impact/sl9workshop.html

It is not possible to have during this short time a lot of presentations by the individual groups with observations. For this reason, the approach will be:

Before the meeting:

1) Establish for each impact an overview of what material was really obtained (instrument characteristics, observation epoch, "quality"), so that all groups can learn which material may complement theirs. This will done by means of the questionaire below.

2) Arrange this material into a "summary table" with a chronological sequence of the main "phases", e.g. Flashes - Plumes - Splashes - Early direct views - Long-term evolution.

During the Workshop:

1) Present this "summary table" as a base for the following discussion. It will most probably not be complete, but new information may be added, as it becomes available.

2) Within each of the "phases", I shall try to animate a "joint discussion", i.e. by combining all what is available from the individual impacts to find out whether there is/are:

• full agreement among the groups about what was observed;
• obvious disagreements, which should then be exposed and possibly elucidated, whereby a list of "open questions" may result; and
• any particular, "unique" observed events, which indicate qualitative differences between the individual impact sequences.

3) Immediately following the discussion among the observers, invite the model builders to comment on the various points that come up during each of the "phases". In particular:

• does the information from the observations as presented make it possible to draw some (new) conclusions about the process(es)?
• can we now put some numbers on the models, or, which of these observations may be particularly crucial for the models? For instance, which "combinations" of observations are especially useful and should be pursued?

4) At the end, to "synthesize" the outcome of these discussions on the spot, i.e. to mention the main points which came up and suggest specific lines of action.

Thank you for your quick reponse ! All suggestions for improving the format and content of this Workshop are of course most welcome.

Kind regards,

Richard West

QUESTIONAIRE (please fill in and return to rwest@eso.org before May 5))

FOR ALL OBSERVERS OF THE K, L AND/OR R EVENTS

Thank you for taking a few minutes to fill this in !

Name                       :
Observatory                :

Which event (K, L or R)    :

Type of obs.(direct/spectr): 
Telescope                  :
Instrument                 :
Wavelength interval        :
Approx. ang. resolution(") :
Approx. spectr. resolution :

Observing interval (UT)    :
No. of frames/spectra      :
Observing conditions       :

Provisional results (brief):
e.g. timings, emitters

Related papers published   :

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