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

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Eugene Magnier

Serge Chastel

Heather Flewelling

Mark Huber

• md.gr0 -- stack photometry + calibration still being cleaned up and verified. Two fields (03,05) still outstanding waiting on data shuffle disk permissions.

Bill Sweeney

• Prototyped adding an auxiliary mask input to the chip background stage which restores the background model subtracted from the chip images. This has been requested for the M31 project. The auxiliary mask will be provided by MPG to implement more aggressive masking of bad pixels. It will only be used for the M31 data. Ran into some interesting problems with the sample mask files provided. The IPP's extra special camera configuration system failed to work with some of them. I eventually figured out what that the problem was an unexpected keyword value that caused the configuration system to choose the wrong format file. Processed the 20 sample exposures through the chip background stage, but pswarp wasn't happy with the results. Further work is required.
• continued monitoring the LAP static sky processing. All of the stacks built prior to December have finished except for 777 from the region near the galacic center. These are now running (very slowly). Should be able to start working on the new stack in the coming week.
• Compared the skycal results prior to and after a change made to getstar last week and didn't find any changes in the results.
• two very busy days as processing czar.
• out much of the week due to illness

Chris Waters