IPP Progress Report for the week 2009.11.09 - 2009.11.13

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Eugene Magnier

Heather Flewelling

Bill Giebink

• Continued with realtest work
• Additional diagnostics on DIMM
• Recovered/rebuilt office work computer

Paul Price

• Stacking (branhces/pap)
  • Merged into trunk (r26076)
  • Investigating photometry problems
  • Rejection in stacking doesn't seem too excessive
  • Systematic error for rejection stage already set to 0.1 mag!
  • Comparison of stack photometry for the Draper skycell with warp yields 0.1 mag stdev.
  • Comparison of photometry from input warps (even from same night) for the Draper skycell yeilds between 0.06 and 0.08 mag stdev.
  • Gene suspects cause is non-photometric conditions; testing with large MD08 photometry set.
• Generated addstar environment for operations
  • Added error handling to addstar script
• Fixed bug in camtool that produced state = 'full' even when fault != 0
• Getting bugs ironed out for running relphot
• One of the stars in the Draper stack that Nigel has a variable centroid, by a couple of pixels!
• Fixed bug preventing stacks working in the wild
• UK tour paperwork
• Fixes to stacktool, difftool to support processing

Bill Sweeney

• Implemented ippTools changes, scripts. and tasks for new cleanup tasks for distribution system.
• Tested this by running it on some old distribution bundles.
• Fixed problem with out of order data in the log files
• Created some new tests for the postage stamp server. Found and fixed a few bugs in the process
• Started implementing "get_image" mode jobs which will be used to create distribution bundles on demand thorough the postage stamp server. Most of the work is complete. Need to do some code polishing and testing.
• Spent some time debugging a perl module dependency problem that Joel Welling ran into at Pittsburg.

Chris Waters

• Vacation for most of the week.

• Crosstalk: Began work on psastro code to mask crosstalk artifacts. Currently still incomplete and non-functional.