Full Force Test on Small Area Survey Stacks and warps

This note discusses the results of the first test of the IPP full force stage on the SAS stacks (label = SAS.20130620). The label for the fullForceRun was SAS.20140117.

The purpose of this test were

• verify the basic operation of the software
• test the code on a well studied area of the Pan-Starrs survey
• compare the resulting galaxy model fits to SDSS measurements of galaxy parameters
• to determine the recipe parameters to be used in 3PI.PV2

Recipes

The programs and the algorithms used by the full force pipeline are described in fullforce_algorithms.

This test searched a wider range in fit radii parameters than is necessary or practical from a compute perspective. This was done so as to get an idea of the range that should be used for the 3PI analysis.

Recipe Parameter	This Test	Default Value
GALAXY_SHAPES_FR_MAJOR_MIN	0.5	0.85
GALAXY_SHAPES_FR_MAJOR_MAX	2.0	1.15
GALAXY_SHAPES_FR_MAJOR_DEL	0.05	0.05
GALAXY_SHAPES_FR_MINOR_MIN	0.5	0.85
GALAXY_SHAPES_FR_MINOR_MAX	2.00	1.15
GALAXY_SHAPES_FR_MINOR_DEL	0.05	0.85

With these parameters 961 trial galaxy fits were performed for each object selected for fitting. The average processing time for each warp was 960 seconds. This is prohibitively expensive for the 3PI survey. In fact we stopped the test after processing only 20% of the skycells because it was taking so long. We believe that this limited test provides the good enough statistics for analysis.

Data Set

The latest SAS stacks (label SAS.20130620) were processed through the staticsky and skycal stages of the IPP using the candidate PV2 version of psphot (tag ipp-20140114).

The code is essentially the same as that used for SAS_32 except that the selection of objects for extended model fitting was relaxed. In particular the previous requirement that the object be "extended" (EXTNSIGMA > 3) is not used. Instead magnitude cuts were used.The cuts chosed are 21.5 in g, r, and i. 20.5 in z and 19.5 in y band. Note that these cuts are per object. If the object's magnitude was less than the cut for any band, fits were performed in all bands.