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

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Eugene Magnier

Serge Chastel

• ppMops: PS1_DV3 is now ready; updated ICD
• IPP+Condor

Heather Flewelling

• various wikis relating to psps and other:
  • ​http://svn.pan-starrs.ifa.hawaii.edu/trac/ipp/wiki/PSPSFlags
    • this lists all the various flags for SA9 (detections, stack detections and objects)
  • ​http://svn.pan-starrs.ifa.hawaii.edu/trac/ipp/wiki/Sa9Problems
    • the list of problems in SA9 - if it's not on here I don't know about it
  • ​http://svn.pan-starrs.ifa.hawaii.edu/trac/ipp/wiki/SAS9DataIntegrity
    • data integrity investigations (what we expect in terms of data integrity and what we find)
  • ​http://svn.pan-starrs.ifa.hawaii.edu/trac/ipp/wiki/SA9ndetections
    • ndetection issues investigated:
      • ndetections = -999 from 'skinny' detections that are not filled by objects (we understand the cause of this)
      • ndetections != ng + nr + ni + nz + ny ==> dvo problem, these numbers all come from dvo
      • ndetections != count of things from stacks + detections ) - mostly due to ipptopsps filtering out P2 detections (see wiki)
• various liason requests
• WEDGE talk
• czar
• AAS abstract submitted

Mark Huber

• various liaison support
• MD02.refstack.20120927 finally wrapped up and diffims being made
• MD.GR0
  • past and new refstack notes still updating, MD10.refstack.20120705, MD01.refstack.20120803
  • MD05 exposures to V3 still working out setting up

Bill Sweeney

• Investigated the intra skycell differences in stack psf magnitudes between SAS V8 and SAS V9. Took many detours along the way but finally determined that the changes were caused by an improvement in the aperture correction in SAS V9. The change is due to better modeling of very bright stars. The previous versions were leaving flux behind
• Modified psphotStack to output all of the data products supported by psphot. This is required because of the different filerule structure. (psphotStack operates on multiple fpas simultanetously.
• Two days as processing czar and serveral hours as volunteer weekend czar.

Chris Waters

• Worked to understand how MOPS does their rejection. Began looking closer to see if a better rejection method can be designed.
• Fought ppStack to add median background stacking. This was the major time sink this week.