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13 Mar 2012: VHS Survey Management Wiki (some pages are public). News. Proposal. ... Proposal Planning Wiki [hosted on Astrogrid Wiki]. Brief description of baseline survey [v3] [out of date; new version in preparation].

20 Apr 2012: The APM Sky Catalogues: Overview. Over the last few years we have used the APM facility to measure the first epoch Palomar O and E sky survey plates, with the aim of constructing a readily accessible Northern sky optical catalogue (see Gemini No. 37

27 Apr 2012: No news is still good news from the point of view of the next installment of ESO Phase 3 deliverables. ... A celebratory glass, or two, of fizz was imbibed to celebrate JRL's good news.

28 Aug 2012: As this may coincide with a bit of fibre re-routing through the new AP building all may follow a smooth trajectory, or not. ... Just goes to prove that getting our VISTA calibration paper(s) out as soon as possible is good news.

10 Feb 2012: Other processing - HAWKI, INT WFC, MegaCam, Subaru, VST, CTIO -------------------- - UVEX, IPHAS, and Kepler processing No news yet again. ... 10. AOB/news ------------ Lots of CASUhelps and even replys but no prizes this month - so rollover to next

24 Jul 2012: This reminded MJI to ask JRL to check for new APASS release since rumour has it that v6 is out. ... 11. AOB/news ------------ Not a lot but xxxx gets the prize for the most amusing CASUhelp of the month.

27 Jun 2012: JRL has been shovelling GaiaESO data through the CASU and ESO pipelines, keeps finding new ESO pipeline foibles, and comparing results (and formats) with the Keele pipeline. ... 11. AOB/news ------------ One day we'll have time for the choice CASUhelps,

27 Apr 2012: AOB/news 1. Actions from last meeting ----------------------------- JRL - still continues to investigate "rolling" master linearity corrections and will include "average" channels too - eventchewally! ... 11. AOB/news ------------ Favourable reviewer's

5 Dec 2012: VPHAS data releases, were being used and if any new problems had been uncovered - none thankfully. ... The good news is that for point sources significant differences only arise for heavily saturated objects.

5 Dec 2012: AOB/news 1. Actions from last meeting ----------------------------- JPE - have characterised the "radial" extent of diffraction spikes for STH VISTA information will go in the technical web pages - eventually MJI - cf. ... 10. ESO in-kind stuff ----------

4 Sep 2012: AOB/news 1. Actions from last meeting ----------------------------- STH - all quiet on the VISTA calibration paper front i.e. ... 11. AOB/news ------------ The CASU job finally got advertised with a closing date of the end of September.

24 Aug 2012: Once all the new stuff is signed off this will free up a spare LTO4 unit and a 30TB disk array. ... Apparently the dates are driven by the new Korean group who need a new filter installed, plus their targets are up in June/July.

5 Dec 2012: Temporary workarounds have been instigated to circumvent the problem. The new fibre channel RAID array est arrivee hier matin. ... the new fibre channel system (actually a replacement for an old one with only one functioning power supply and no spares on

13 Mar 2012:  New data from Planck, LHC will directly address major questions in particle physics, cosmology and the connections between them. ...  New experiments searching for dark matter, neutrino masses, anomalous gravitations effects etc are reaching

27 Feb 2012:  With Higgs and other vacuum fields, this means that the vacuum itself drops into a new phase. ... long strings interacting will create new loops, so get population of lines and loops which tend to stable “scaling solution”.

16 Mar 2012: There are new leptoquarks which allow transitions along the rows between the coloured quark states and the colourless leptons.

12 Mar 2012: 4. Read off the new fields and interactions needed! 5. Note conserved quantum numbers! ... Plot shows likelihood of solutions in mSUGRA parameter space, using SM electroweak data and new LHC results.

22 May 2012: Another new instrument with sensitivity to hot dust is the Palomar Fiber Nuller (PFN; Hanot et al.2011). ... A new generation of coronagraphs behind extreme AO systems on 8-meter-class ground-based tele-scopes is in the development and commissioning phase

9 Oct 2012: 2.3 New Accretion Rate Calculations. Assuming 0.01 solar composition by mass, extrapolated fromcalcium abundance, for both DAZ and DBZ white dwarfs isnot ideal, but understandable based on existing data ... 2.1 Steady State Metal Accretion. 2.2

24 Jan 2012: Efstathiou, G.,. MNRAS, 276, L45.[R91] A New Large Sample of Ultraluminous IRAS Galaxies, 1996, Clements, D.L.,. ... R157] New Upper Limit on the Total Neutrino Mass from the 2 Degree FieldGalaxy Redshift Survey, Elgaroy, O.; Lahav, O.; Percival, W.