IPP Progress Report for the week 2011.11.03 - 2011.11.07

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Eugene Magnier

Serge Chastel

Heather Flewelling

Roy Henderson

• Loading to PSPS:
  • continued to load, monitor and cleanup LAP data
  • investigated dodgy batch on datastore that caused DXLayer to stop. Found issue and fixed it.
  • supplied batches for sandbox testing for Sue and Conrad. Needed to write code to republish batches already processed for LAP.
  • lots of batches failed by ODM after skycell change (see below) due to conflict with initialization table: cleaned-up and resubmitted ~3000 batches
  • looked at newly merged data. Found issue with duplicated filter: my fault. Fixed it
  • attempts to sort out mess after more dxlayer files were lost. Had to figure out what the ODM has 'seen' and what it hasn't. Still work to do here.

• ippToPsps development
  • worked on missing stack fields after pointers from Chris and Mark:
    • populating psfFwhm_mean and psfFwhm_max from FITS header
    • skycelID was wrong. Fixed and added projectioncellID
    • populating psfLikelhood
  • DXLayer batch deletion:
    • wrote a class to encapsulate the dxlayer. Only a 'delete' method so far, which calls webservice
    • built this into to my cleanup code
  • added comment column to batch table in ipptopsps database. populated for out-of-the-ordinary batches, eg duplicated exposures from LAP a few weeks ago. This will help with audit.

• Documentation:
  • updated ippToPsps documentation with recent 'multi-client' developments
  • updated PSPS news page

Mark Huber

Bill Sweeney

• Implemented vptool a tool for managing the database tables related to the new video photometry stage.
• Implemented script to run psvideophot program on the chip images that contain video cells.
• Next step is to flesh out the program that does the video photometry analysis to build the output fits table.
• Managed reprocessing of M31 data from 2010.
• Two days as processing czar.
• Vacation Friday.

Chris Waters