Terapix Star Formation Region IC 1396, © 2001 CFHT
Teraminutes for the meeting of June 6th, 2006
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by HJMCC - Updated December 22nd, 2006

Terameeting 6th June 2006
-  Present: Henry, Yannick, Fred, Laurent, Mireille, Anthony, Anis, Emmanuel
-  By videoconf: Mathias

Spica: current status: Laurent, yannick

-  mix4/mi6/mix3 still processing very wide images; 2500 very wide images processed so far
-  none of these images have been noted; Yannick has sent messages to himself concerning the problems encountered during processing (1700 emails sent so far)
-  none of the VW images have been graded
-  Yannick proposes that the most useful plots of the Scamp and QFITS-out QC pages be merged into a single compact page where all information could be catched up in one shot. Laurent will try to provide this page Note: DONE!
-  we also need to find a better a way to carry out the quality control in an automatic fashion using numbers (rms error, etc...). Yannick reminds that Emmanuel is working on it in order to have the center-position and second-moments of 2-d plots measured. Yannick points out that we also need an estimate of oscillations in the 1-d plots produced by Scamp
-  5% of the very-wide images are totally off
-  proposition is that Wide-T0004-prototype L02/L05 starts in four days on mix4

PI data Annie Robin (Mireille, Emmanuel)
-  Big problem is that many images were made with the L3 flip of the WFC; image quality is good in the centre but there are strong distortions at the edge of the field; the usable field area is circular (later on, the optical configuration of the telescope was changed and optical quality improved).
-  need more input from Annie Robin about the exact scientific aims of the project; can we coadd images from different QRUN-IDs for example? Or should we stick to Annie's request she sent to Laurent?
-  there are some images which have very good seeing; stars in the images in this case are doubled; should they be discarded? Mireille will send the list of bad images to Mathias; Mathias will ask Annie
-  We had a question from Linwai about field-to-field variation in galaxy counts; yannick will investigate this (there is a maybe a big (super)cluster in this field?)

Status W3-release candidate
-  Fred will prepare W3 release candidate and contact the CADC
-  Mathias will prepare a web pages at TERAPIX detailing the SDSS-CFHTLS photometric comparison of the new release candidate
-  Yannick will give Mathias the W4 co-ordinates
-  z-band counts compiled from the CFHTLS will be added to the the QFITS-in/out galaxy count plot by Fred

hardware; Fred
-  All the machines should be delivered before the end of week; some parts still missing at Agorus
-  Problem with electrical earthing in the computer room; could this mean we will have to stop the machines sometime soon? Fred will talk to Rene Verriere and check whether this is critical and urgent
-  250 GB disk will be ordered for Mireille
-  CNES-argent 2006 will be used to buy a laptop for Chiara

Wircam: Sanders/cosmos
-  data processing (sky subtraction) proceeding very slowly as only one swarp runs on mix7; don't really know if the sky-subtraction is correct or not...
-  DEADLINE: by 7 july catalogues should be ready for COSMOS-HAWAII meeting
-  sky-subtraction

SCAMP, Emmanuel
-  not much progress; should have more time for this after the meeting on the 13th

Panorapix - Anis
-  interface QT seems to work
-  need to find a way to do shaders larger than 4000x4000;
-  Anis will do a demo in his office by Thursday (June 15)
-  Fred and Anis will try to run Panorapix from Fred's laptop

Efigi
-  4 people have classified the first 100 galaxies (Henry, Roser, Yannick, Emmanuel). Valerie de Lapparent is about to
-  objective with the automatic classification is to get 35% of the galaxies close to one hubble type

Forums
-  Mike Fitzpatrick suggested that we should include searchable archives of the past mailing lists on the forum; we are not sure how we can do this

-  - Tasks from last week, other matters
-  A task has been assigned (deadline: end of June) to Fred, Emmanuel, Laurent and Anthony to split the repository in public and private sections, and to make the web-interface available to the public soon after.
-  Emmanuel will add IAP logo the poster (for the third week of june); yannick has to prepare some documents for P3
-  Fred has installed web-SVN which allows one to browse the SVN trees with a web browser
-  public / private sections have to be separated, and there has to be some backups to be done before this can happen; this will be done before the end of the month.
-  cleanup of web pages, as requested by Chiara, continues....
-  Yannick made the changes to the pages spotted by Chiara; a review of the whole website shall be discussed by the end of June.

Hardware:
-  The deadline for Fred to deploy the software that handles UPSes has been postponed to the end of the week.
-  Fred has created and filled the 2005 directory for the teraminutes on the intranet, as requested by Yannick.

-  -- Next Tera-meeting: Friday June 16th 2006, Salle 281


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