IPP Software Navigation Tools IPP Links Communication Pan-STARRS Links

Opened 19 years ago

Closed 19 years ago

#864 closed defect (fixed)

Objects classified as other than STAR or EXTENDED are not written to disk

Reported by: rhl@… Owned by: eugene
Priority: high Milestone:
Component: psphot Version: 1.0
Severity: normal Keywords:
Cc:

Description

(Almost?) all of the pmSourceIO_XXX.c files contain a clause:

pmModel *model = pmSourceSelectModel (source);
if (model == NULL)

continue;

Looking at pmSourceSelectModel reveals that it looks at the pmSource->type
field, and returns NULL if it's not STAR or EXTENDED --- even if the source
has a valid model.

This is dangerous, as a mis-classified star (and I'm seeing c. 5% at 18th
in some SDSS fields) are silently discarded.

I do realise that bona fide cosmic rays should be ignored, but we need to
lean on the side of keeping junk, rather than discarding real objects.

Change History (1)

comment:1 by eugene, 19 years ago

op_sys: MacOS XAll
Resolution: fixed
Status: newclosed

done: these are now added to the output

Note: See TracTickets for help on using tickets.