AP Pipeline Meeting, 2020-08-31

2pm Pacific Time

BlueJeans: https://bluejeans.com/426716450

attending:

• Eric Bellm
• Unknown User (cmorrison)
• Krzysztof Findeisen
• Ian Sullivan
• Meredith Rawls
• Unknown User (gkovacs)
• Kenneth Herner

regrets:

• John Swinbank (review)

Topics for discussion:

• Gen 3 conversion (all):
  • no updates this week.

• Precursor processing (Meredith Rawls ):
  • did August HiTS rerun–again identical.
  • got new lsst-login working with her workflow–figuring out if slurm process has changed.
  • aiming to show HSC at September QA meeting
• report from NCSA (Unknown User (emorganson)  + Unknown User (manninga) et al):
• Alert Distribution (Spencer Nelson ):
  • out today
• ap_association/SDM/fakes/alerts (Unknown User (cmorrison)):
  • ready for fakes pipeline review
  • then returning to test it in context of larger gen3 pipeline
• Crowded field photometry (Ian Sullivan ):
  • figuring out the bias issue in DECam that propagates through–everything else works
  • has asked various DECam experts who all claim they are not actually experts.  Solutions seem to involve fitting the bias jump, but the metadata is missing in these files.  (Eric speculates maybe this was early in the survey and the problem wasn't yet well-understood.)  working in one test repo.  CP seems to have dealt with this successfully in the past
    • Meredith offers to pair-code on it
    • Eric suggests to check in with Unknown User (emorganson)
• Image differencing (Unknown User (gkovacs) ):
  • looking at source detection code
  • also digging into textbooks to understand the sampling issues.
• Review CI (https://chronograf-demo.lsst.codes/):
  • nothing changed.
• Review outstanding action items

• AOB
  • no meeting next week (US holiday)
    
  • anything coordinated for UW astrofest?  We'll coordinate on #uw-dm
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    • Eric Bellmsend Kenneth Hernersome AP reading material 07 Sep 2020 

Action Items