WMAP Release date

[Antony Lewis]

Can someone please let us know the release date for WMAP2?

[Mike Nolta]

Soon.

[Pablo Fosalba]

I got a very similar answer to the same question last year...;-)
does "soon = 2004" in some sort of lenguage ?

[Alessandro Melchiorri]

2005 should be WMAP3 !

[Pablo Fosalba]

2005 should be WMAP3 !

Just got some pretty solid rumours that WMAP2 is coming up real soon
(in weeks, perhaps this very month).
And most of what we guessed about polarization-related results seems to be true...(see the other WMAP forum topic)
so, get ready to enjoy the new data release ;-)

[Alessandro Melchiorri]

Hi, any new rumour ? :-)))

[Antony Lewis]

According to the Today program, due out in November??

Listen at

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/today/listenagain/ram/today5_bigbang_20050921.ram

(brief discussion of axis of evil, then lots of more general discussion)

[Hans Kristian Eriksen]

According to the Today program, due out in November??

Listen at

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/today/listenagain/ram/today5_bigbang_20050921.ram

(brief discussion of axis of evil, then lots of more general discussion)

Well... The reporter doesn't say anything about what his sources are, so to me it sounds as the usual "soon" :-)

[Kate Land]

I can confirm that the BBC's 'soon' is the same as ours! The reporter, Tom Fielden, got his information from me and others, and had no inside info of his own.

Someone out there has got to know! What do you think is going on?

[Alessandro Melchiorri]

Hi all,

I heard a rumour: the new results will be released next week...can someone confirm this ?
anyway it should be soon !

cheers
Alessandro

[Alessandro Melchiorri]

...and...ehm one year ago (november 2004) we had a similar rumour...I hope this time is true ! :-)

[Robert J. Scherrer]

I spoke with David Spergel about this when he visited Vanderbilt in October,
and he indicated that they were aiming for an early November release date.

[Hans Kristian Eriksen]

I heard a rumour: the new results will be released next week...can someone confirm this ?
anyway it should be soon !

I spoke with David Spergel about this when he visited Vanderbilt in October,
and he indicated that they were aiming for an early November release date.

I have to say I'm sort of impressed... People are *still* waiting for the WMAP release as if it's coming tomorrow..?! Personally, I've fallen into something close to apathy -- the data come when they are ready, and there's nothing I can do about it. So I've stopped wondering about them, and I've stopped planning as if they are coming next week.

PS! It was a month until release in June, August, September and now even October. In fact, they were close to making a release Christmas 2003.

[Anze Slosar]

It was a month until release in June, August, September and now even October. In fact, they were close to making a release Christmas 2003.

Actually, we are talking about two Junes, Augusts, Septembers and even Octobers (2004 and 2005)... :)

[Michael Doran]

I agree with Hans Kristian!

Months, maybe years ago, I freaked out whenever
I went on holidays. I thought that clearly, WMAP would publish the results the day I get on vacation. But now, I simply don't care anymore.
If the data is released at some inconvenient date, I hope the community will just ignore it and postpone work on the data to some more appropriate time. Say, if it came out right before Christmas, why not pretend it didn't come out yet. Have a fortnight of holidays and in the new year discover that the data finally came out ?