IPP Progress Report for the week YYYY.MM.DD - YYYY.MM.DD

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Eugene Magnier

Serge Chastel

Heather Flewelling

• monday holiday
• cleaned up JT's list of "Bad 45" - early MD stacks that don't exist: ​http://svn.pan-starrs.ifa.hawaii.edu/trac/ipp/wiki/JTMD_graveyard
• lots of work on collecting MD field information and organizing it in an organized manner: ​http://svn.pan-starrs.ifa.hawaii.edu/trac/ipp/wiki/MediumDeepFields
  • in particular, this wiki shows the coverage of MD by other telescopes: ​http://svn.pan-starrs.ifa.hawaii.edu/trac/ipp/wiki/MediumDeepOtherFilters
• investigations of space hogs on ipp005 and ippmanoa. ippmanoa is mostly gene/niall, ipp005 is mostly dvodbs/rocs/nebulous
  • started cleanup of ipp005: this is moving old dvodbs to ippb03.x
  • dvodbs are 'off' until we have disk space on ipp005.
• processed warps for Larry - need to put them somewhere to grab (they are finished)
• czar on friday. We were far behind on downloading images (staaaaare). Lots of watching to make sure things were proceeding.
• showed bill how I make ds9 region files from cmf files
• in process of repairing the repairable isp files (the files with 1 dead copy and 1 good copy)

Roy Henderson

• vacation on Friday

• some big ippToPsps changes to improve usability:
  • configs are now stored in a database table
  • created base-class for all programs which:
    • sets up config and logger
    • handles graceful exiting (including catching Ctrl-C)
    • handles pausing, killing and checking for config changes via Db
  • instead of each loader client queuing stuff up, a 'queue' program writes a list in the db for all clients to see:
    • this required some new tables: pending is stored by 'boxes' on sky so that the new DVO ingest code can be used if necessary
    • these and some other database tables now use foreign key relationships with cascading delete enabled for safety
  • wrote plotter program to create nice density plot of still-to-be-processed stuff for a given config
  • all loaders now automatically choose an available scratch database.

• PSPS
  • added section detailing Gene's recommended detection cuts to wiki FAQ
  • fixed PSVO plugins to use Sue's workaround for BIGINT detection masks
  • support emails

Mark Huber

• ppStack cause(s) of overly large PSF in convolved stacks
  • looked at the selected stamps used for convolution
  • moving on to weights and found the SYS.ERR parameter setting may be part of the issue. Tests with order 100 inputs (simulated and MD04) with SYS.ERR reduced back to 0 have a greatly improved convolved PSF size.
  • stumbled across a couple non-critical code bugs
• looked up some sample regions with brighter stars in MD04 with good and not so good FWHM for Ken.

Bill Sweeney

Chris Waters

• Finished work on PATTERN.CONTINUITY, and built a new tag with this in it.
• Restarted LAP processing at 0 hours.
• Rerunning SAS2 through the new tag, and distributing it to get comments on false positive rates.
• Added compute 3 wave to processing host list.
• Made modifications to nightly_science code to implement offnight diffs and MOPS warp-stack diffs in an automated way. This has not been tested yet, so more debugging work is needed.