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| | 8 | At the start of the week, I was focused on preparing the next IPP tagged-release for the operational system. We've been tightening up our operations model, and especially the version control on the installation used for science operations. I updated the build system to ensure the complete IPP (including the approved version of magic) can be built with a single command. This reduces the chance for new installations to have errors in the configuration. |
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| | 10 | I have also been working on the portion of the pipeline needed to automate the stack photometry process. We are calling this the 'staticsky' stage of the pipeline. The automation is now complete: the operations team can initiate a staticsky analysis for any set of input stacks with any number of filters. |
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| | 12 | I am next working on re-generating a deep MD04 reference stack using all (or at least most) of the data taken to date. The first step of this process is to create an MD04 astrometry and photometry reference database using the PS1 data taken to date. That should allow us to build a stack with better registration as well as high-quality photometric calibration. We have 100-300 exposures per filter (and no more coming this year), so we should now be able make a very high-quality reference stack on which we can run the staticsky stack photometry. Once the process has been demonstrated with MD04, we can run it for the other MD fields that are no longer accessible. |
