IPP Progress Report for the week 2012.05.14 - 2012.05.18

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Eugene Magnier

Serge Chastel

Heather Flewelling

• sick one day
• psps
  • answered questions from nigel (not completely): there are funny problems with the stack detections
  • conrad showed me how to do the dxlayer and how to log into all the various psps machines
  • various problems with duplicate batches and other things: still sorting this out with conrad and thomas.
• dvodbs
  • nagged people into cleaning up space on ipp005
  • stopped building dvodbs on ipp005 - will restart this week.
• worked with JT: grab md04 smf files (specifically, the smfs corresponding to the exposures in his set of stacks) and started building a dvodb for that.

Roy Henderson

• worked two days, up to 15th

• PSVO:
  • new class to handle opening of streams from either online or local resource
  • trac enhancement # 370: whole plug-on menus, not just queries, can now be added dynamically
  • added 'About PSVO' text to config, added necessary code to Config class
  • added special code to make new about dialog work on Mac OS
• ippToPsps:
  • wrote batchRepublisher.py program to republish batches that had previously failed
  • some minimal help and advice with the loading

Mark Huber

• out sick Wednesday and Thursday
• DRAVG minutes
• ppStack tests - continue to clean up tests to reset for new target PSF tests. (
• ppSub - QUB suggested additional cases, manually setting up and running test set.
• STS refstack for MOPS - messed up initial manually selected test set, working out how to fix.

Bill Sweeney

Chris Waters

• Detrend documentation wiki page: ​http://svn.pan-starrs.ifa.hawaii.edu/trac/ipp/wiki/GPC1_Detrend_Documentation
• Began ROC rsync from ipp005 to ippb03.
• Reran footprint test again.
  • Confirmed that bright stars introduce nearby false detections.
  • Checked that Bill's improvement to psphot removed these false detections.
  • Identified that remaining ghost images are due to the magnitude threshold in g not going deep enough to remove all ghosts that can form false positives.
• AAS poster work.
• Worked on a way to get a better initial stacking image that is faster than the KMM bimodality test, but still yields equivalent results. Need to implement and test in ppStack. I'm still somewhat concerned that the large variance due to the boost means that anything will be consistent with this initial image.