IPP Progress Report for the week 2011.05.02 - 2011.05.06

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Eugene Magnier

Serge Chastel

Heather Flewelling

• power outage at manoa tuesday afternoon
• linked new dvo db to ifaps1
• helped Roy/answered Roy questions.
• JT stacks (pushed a few more along, answer questions)
• sdss 3pi plots - I got started on this, and got distracted by isp...
• sorting out isp astrometry problems:
  • r and i 3 pi chunk has lovely astrometry - initially they did not:
    • ISP was using gpc1 CRLIMITS, found limits for isp
    • needed 3rd order fitting
    • needed multiple iterations
  • y needs a lot of work (problems related to few stars? too bright? wrong selection of refstars?) I'm still sorting it out
• sick half a day

Roy Henderson

• Detection batches from last week loaded successfully. A relief.
  • able to test new, fast DetectionCalib table with PSVO
  • work to confirm that we have the same calibrated magnitude in PSPS as in the original IPP smf files

• Stack loading:
  • issue with NULL xPos and yPos values in StackDetection: was failing load
  • discovered that deep stacks can have duplicate objIDs and NULL flux values in psf table, thus explaining some previous issues
  • power-cut on monday. Hassles getting datastore back up, loading all the stuff processed the night before
  • discovered hundreds of nightly stacks with 0.0 EXPTIME, thus screwing up flux calculations
    • gpc1 query kindly supplied by Bill, but highlighted that a proportion of the previous stacks had non-zero, but incorrect, EXPTIME
    • changed code to use Bill's query, and reloaded everything
  • dupe objID confusions in deep stacks - ok in detection table, NOT in object table. Reloaded all deep stacks AGAIN
  • merge failed on Friday: ID we are using for stackDetectID is not unique. Need to add stack ID to primary key as a temporary fix.

• PSVO
  • discussions and testing of PSVO with query builder
  • made MOPSSchema class for query builder to use
  • slow queries now passed straight to TOPCAT, only first 1000 rows shown in table
  • many other minor changes

Bill Sweeney

• started working on adding authentication to the data store products and the tools used that access them.
• spent one day analyzing the apache access logs for our data store, postage stamp server, and other services provided by po02.
• changed the web proxy configuration to restrict access to ps1sc institutions.
• spent Friday finally installing a new operating system on my desktop. (I was about two years behind.)
• set up the database to enable distribution of the LAP outputs.

Chris Waters