Development Highlights for Fall 2014

All:

• Write up the simulation framework codes into papers: papers will be based off the SPIE versions (ie expanded). This would provide a set of refereed papers for opsim, catsim, maf that people can cite.

Peter:

• Sky Model
  • Start with Chuck's data and generates sky variations as a function of time
  • Evaluate ESO model
• Calibration sims (as needed)
• Community support of MAF
• Dust maps
  • Implement in healpix (update photutils)

Lynne:

• Solar system
  • Implement solar system metric
• Visualization
  • Freeze the current web interface and then give to Cathy to write more opsim development metrics and plots
  • Mozilla work on iteractive viz
  • Nan-Chen work on collaborative viz

Scott:

• Complete catsim clean up
• Implement variability model
• Implement footprint model in catsim then MAF

Bryce

• Finish bulge star density evaluation and write up (internal report then paper)
• Finish PCA on stars/galaxies and implement for cats and phosim (write up as a paper)

Cathy

• Finalize what functionality needs to be in MAF to replace SSTAR
• Learn to write metrics and implement any required metrics for opsim in MAF
• Implement new plots in MAF required for evaluation of Tier 1 runs

Francisco

• Generate a breakdown of tasks for the refactoring of opsim to produce telemetry data and to modularize the scheduler component
• Produce a design for the OCS/Opsim framework and submit for design review (including libraries, data structures, api and methodology for the communication)
• Start the refactoring

New Hire

• Learn the opsim code base and LSST tools
• Work with Francisco and support the OCS/Scheduler development plan

Kem

• LSE-190, Scheduler Requirements.
• Scheduler experts workshop
• Evaluate Tier 1 and rerun if necessary

Veljko:

• Event Broker
  • Generate small number of diasources based on variability (nominal catalog vs time specific catalog) - base off variabilityReferenceCatalog.py
  • Create initial voevent package and broadcast locally for the brightest sources (small numbers)
  • Visualize output (e.g. distribution on sky) using existing voevent tools
  • Modify the output parameters for the catalogs to reflect the object schema (or diasource schema) that DM expects