IPP Progress Report for the week 2012-09-24 - 2012-09-30

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Eugene Magnier

Serge Chastel

• 64-bit bitwise and with MS SQL
• Czar on Wed and Thu
• ppMops

Heather Flewelling

• I was sick for 2 days...
• liason requests - there is currently no easy to find description of what the latest and greatest SAS and 3pis are, which makes it difficult for postage stamp users. I created the very basic ​http://svn.pan-starrs.ifa.hawaii.edu/trac/ipp/wiki/SASand3Pi to give a little bit of help.
• I spent a while tracking the ndetections = -999 problem in psps. see here: ​http://svn.pan-starrs.ifa.hawaii.edu/trac/ipp/wiki/SA9ndetections
  • There are 74k of thsee
  • 12 k come from a failed batch (this batch is out of range) why did it get ingested in psps?
  • 60 k fall outside of some range .. however... Heather doesn't understand why some of them got ingested anyways.. Heather can't find the batches that contain them...
• heather volunteered for a talk on tuesday (WEDGE)

Mark Huber

Bill Sweeney

• Most of this week was spent investigating the consistency of the stack photometry imported into DVO and from there into PSPS. TODO: add conclusions of this study
• Implemented improvements to ppstamp. The postage stamp extrator program
  • On request, read sources from cmf or smf file and create an output cmf file containing just the sources in the region of interest
  • Use the header information from the "astrometry" file since it contains the results of the psphot and psastro analyses. When deployed this will insure that the calibration information from the image is included in the header.
• Spent an inordinate amount of time dealing with some of our nodes that keep hanging.

Chris Waters