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#1506 new defect

negative window found in psphotStack psf matching

Reported by: bills Owned by: bills
Priority: normal Milestone:
Component: psphot Version:
Severity: normal Keywords:
Cc:

Description

We are getting a number of staicsky failures where the psf matching fails due to a negative kron radius calculation. See log excerpt below.

The images don't look particularly bad.
Recent examples are sky_id 193594 and 193468

Filtered out 58 of 538 sources

built background image: 2.496715 sec

image sky : mean -5.720879, stdev 296.211211, dQ 0.561366
background sky : min -31.189825 mean -5.720878 max 16.422895 stdev 8.532555

Iso-kernel region: [21:6285,21:6267] out of 6307,6289

Found 29 stamps

Kron Radii vs FWHMs 1: fwhm: 6.000000, kron 3.414591
Kron Radii vs FWHMs 2: fwhm: 7.308946, kron -3.452876
Windows from Kron Radii: 9.390125 for 1, -9.495409 for 2

Error in the psphot image loop

-> pmSubtractionStampsGetWindow (pmSubtractionStamps.c:945): Unable to select stamps for PSF-matching

Unable to determine normalisation window size (2).

-> pmSubtractionMatch (pmSubtractionMatch.c:710): Unable to select stamps for PSF-matching

Unable to get stamp window.

-> matchKernel (psphotStackMatchPSFsUtils.c:303): Unable to select stamps for PSF-matching

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