AP Pipeline QA Meeting, 2023-02-06

2pm Pacific Time

Zoom: https://washington.zoom.us/j/98846655020

attending:

• Ian Sullivan
• Zeljko Ivezic 
• Yusra AlSayyad 
• Leanne Guy 
• Brianna Smart 
• Krzysztof Findeisen 
• John Parejko 
• Colin Slater 
• Nima Sedaghat 
• Kenneth Herner 
• Jeffrey Carlin 
• Erin Howard 
• Bruno Sanchez 
• Steve Ritz 
• Krzysztof Suberlak 
• Bryce Kalmbach 
 

regrets:

• Eric Bellm (family conflict)

Topics for discussion:

• Announcements
  • Welcome and introduction to new AP team member Bruno Sanchez
• Precursor processing (AP team):
  • HSM shape flags (Kenneth Herner )
    • Requires changing plugin-specific flag names in ap_association
    • If you try to run a new version of association with old data, it will not fail but the reported flags will be incorrect.
    • 13k → 8.5k "good" sources after change
  • mode=auto reprocessing (Erin Howard )
• SITCOM team updates (Andrew Connolly, Mario Juric   et al.):
  • Team working on Auxtel data is running the wavefront sensing pipeline. We are working with them to debug issues as they find them.
• DIA Transients & Variables Science Unit update (Eric Bellm ):
  • Have begun meeting at the DESC DIA biweekly meeting, working to get everyone onboarded at USDF.
  • Strong Lensing-interested members were pointed to AP Precursor Processing Runs and are also thinking about AuxTel imaging campaigns.
• DIA Solar System Science Unit update (Mario Juric ):
• PreOps V&V (Colin Slater ): 
  • Some questions in December about getting templates ready for an Auxtel imaging campaign
  • Starting to build templates from Auxtel data
  • Investigating calib issues for building nice templates
  • Note that they are just testing the coaddition pipeline now. Once the pipeline is ready, they will start taking observations that are suitable for building coadds to use as templates for image differencing.
• Review CI (https://chronograf-demo.lsst.codes/):

• Next meetings (all at 2pm Pacific):
  
  • March 6
• AOB

Action Items