IPP Progress Report for the week 2011.04.11 - 2011.04.15

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Eugene Magnier

Serge Chastel

Heather Flewelling

• merging of the ThreePi minidvodbs are done (except for 2 that need some work).
• czar for 1 day
• created databases for Jim: dvodb of the cam stage MD04s, and dvodb of the static sky MD04 stacks (Bill set up the staticsky).
• updated addRun database and checked in changes to addstar to handle different stages (cam and staticsky are tested to be working).
• booked flights, hotels, and registrations for PS1SC and AAS conference
• worked on videophotometry stuff for pavlos - still working on it.

Roy Henderson

• ippToPsps
  • wrote a C program (based on old code) for interfacing with DVO. Is called from Jython code to populate database tables for quick detection matching
  • talked to STILTS developer in UK and got a fix for issues caused by infinity values that sneak into IPP FITS files
  • made numerous PSPS schema changes with Jim
  • code changes within ippToPsps to deal with schema changes
  • wrote a more generic FITS header parser for image meta extensions for detections (STILTS doesn't read headers)
  • tested Heather's new DVO Db containing stacks: success. Was able to pull out object IDs
  • more work on detection batches with Jython.

• PSVO:
  • finished changes necessary to implement Daniel's query builder:
    • wrote PSPSSchema as subclass of abstract Schema class. Figures out tables, columns, constraints and populates Schema fields
    • added the GUI stuff necessary to pop up builder, passing it relevant Schema and Listener objects

• vacation on Wednesday

Bill Sweeney

• Worked with Johannes K. at MPG to refine the new STS tessellation. Started processing the 2010 data with this skycell definition.
• Distributed the MD04.deeptest data.
• Finished the script to perform the staticsky photometry on nightly stacks.
• Queued and executed staticsky runs for all MD04 nightly stacks
• Wrote a long email to Robert S. of MPG about the operation of a data store. He is considering using our code to send photo-z data to PSPS. (At some point I need to refine this into a wiki page)
• Spent an afternoon running psastro on some sts exposures affected by the astrometry problem. The goal is to find a set of parameters for the analysis that improve the results. This will continue next week.
• Insured that the test exposures for new STS fields got processed.
• Investigated the persistence effect caused by a 3rd magnitude star in one of the possible new fields.
• transferred chip outputs from 4 exposures to the rsync server for the outreach program.

Chris Waters