Meeting Goals
Auxiliary Telescope Pipeline (primary goal)
- Define requirements for the Auxiliary Telescope pipeline, including a clear scope of the work being undertaken.
- Agree on the design of the pipeline.
- Converge on a clear assignment of responsibilities for the various pipeline components.
- Produce an executable, trackable plan which will lead to operational pipeline delivery in late 2018/early 2019.
- Establish clear reporting lines and methodologies for work on the Auxiliary Telescope Pipeline.
- Provide a detailed programme of work with a clear deliverable by May 2018 (the end of the S18 cycle).
Other Calibration Products (secondary goal)
- Review the current status of work in progress and develop concrete goals for the S18 & F18 cycles.
Participants
Logistics
The meeting will take place in room 106 of the McKay building, 9 Oxford Street, (Faux) Cambridge, MA, 02138. There is a doorbell at the lab door.
Coming from the airport, it usually takes ~1 hours using the Silver line down to South station (free), then the red line, up to Harvard Square. Then a 5 minute walk through Harvard Yard and the Science Center: our Office is in the next building on the right.
General directions to the Physics complex: https://www.physics.harvard.edu/about/directions
(Thanks to Chris Stubbs & Unknown User (aguyonnet) for the directions!)
Agenda
| Time | Chair | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| Monday, January 29 | ||
| 09:00 | Welcome; discuss aims for the meeting; agree agenda. | |
| 09:30 | Unknown User (aguyonnet) | Report on & discuss progress to date. status.pdf |
| 12:00 | Lunch | |
| 13:15 | DMLT telecon. (Nobody else need participate.) | |
| 13:45 | John Swinbank | Using JIRA to report on & manage stack development. This is fundamentally to make sure that Unknown User (aguyonnet) and I are in agreement about the procedure we'll be using; others are welcome, but not required. |
| 14:15 | John Swinbank | Division of responsibility. Informally, we've discussed Merlin Fisher-Levine taking the lead on developing code within the framework of the DM stack and integrating it with the LSST system, while Unknown User (aguyonnet) focuses on extra-stack algorithm development. Are we all signed up to that? Subtleties? Caveats? Concerns? |
| 14:45 | Robert Lupton | Overall pipeline requirements and deliverables.
|
| 16:30 | John Swinbank | Development plans for the next ~ year. We should develop:
This plan should cover all non-science-time activities, e.g. observing runs or other activities that will be necessary to complete the work. |
| 18:00 | Close | |
| Tuesday, January 30 | ||
| 09:00 | Other relevant calibration products plans that it would be useful to discuss as a group, especially where its schedule is impacted by work on AuxTel.
See also Calibration Products Pipeline Status. | |
| 11:00 | Robert Lupton | Planning for the Collimated Beam Projector, with special guest Patrick Ingraham. In particular, Patrick tells me that the CBP is expected in February, the laser in March, and it might get near a telescope in mid-2018. We should understand how this timeline relates to DM software deliveries, and what activities the DM team will have to undertake to test/verify/validate/commission/use the CBP. |
| 13:00 | General discussion, closing remarks, finishing up, etc. | |
| 14:00 | Close | |
Materials
I upload here some of the documents that I (A. Guyonnet) shall mentioned in my status report, Monday 29th, 09:30 :
- Simulation of the impact of atmospheric transparency on the photometry 2017-12-21-Aer-Ozon-PWV-dagoret.pdf
- Atmospheric transparency determination from observation prod_spec.pdf
- Discussing spectrum extraction methods
Illustration in spectrometry.pdf slides 11, 12, 13.
Description of the implementation in report.pdf
- Analysis of our simultaneous spectro-photometric sky probe tests : spectroVSphoto.pdf
Chris's paper :
"Toward More Precise Survey Photometry for PanSTARRS and LSST: Measuring Directly the Optical Transmission Spectrum of the Atmosphere "
Results
Action Items
- Robert Lupton: Develop a proposed set of requirements for OCS scripting; to be made available as soon as possible.
- Robert Lupton: Propose a series of AuxTel milestones, capturing major events which DM cares about, to Patrick Ingraham.
- Merlin Fisher-Levine: Write a document describing the set of ChrisBP data required for CBP development work in F18.
- John Swinbank: Expand the list Calibration Products Pipeline Status page to cover all work that needs to be done, including e.g. scripting of the OCS required to take data.
- John Swinbank: Follow up with the LDF team to understand the substance of 2018-era data acquisition work: how fast will data taken become available on the Data Backbone? Will it be buttled?