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Teraminutes for the meeting of Monday 28th of November 2005
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by HJMCC - Updated November 29th, 2005

Status of T0003 (Laurent)

-  First question, can we change the size of the image to make the same as the T0002?
-  It seems that all images generated from the wide were *actually* the correct size;
-  Discovered after the meeting: Laurent's script produces RECTANGULAR images for the deep and SQUARE images for the wide
-  We will restart the release with a uniform image size for all images
-  Yannick has compared in detail some stacks in T0002 and T0003 and they seem to be approximately OK, although more detailed comparisons are still needed
-  It will take around 1.5 months to produce all the stacks
-  It seems that all the stacks will be processed on two machines, mix4 and mix6 (mix3 will not be used); may be able to speed things up by copying images between the machines
-  Fred wil explore the possibilty to move some data to mix3 in order to better use mix3 after its first (only) stack be done
-  In order to check colors, once Laurent will have produced the command line list and the stack list table, Mireille, henry and Yannick will do a manual selection of the stack sequence. We will then produce one Deep and one Wide in u*,g,r,i,z prior to run the whole T0003.
-  Yannick remind that Mathias, Henry, Mireille and Yannick have to check the output of each stacks produced by SPICA. This is a duty that must be shared by all of us.

Preparation for SPICA post-processing (Mireille, Henry, Mathias)
-  Mireille will be at CFH from 11th January and 20th February
-  Henry will be in Iran from the 11th to 20th of January
-  All Henry's procedures and scripts must be well documented so that processing can continue when Henry is away
-  Mathias will be Paris on the 6th and 7th of December

Summary table for T0003
-  Laurent will try to produce automatically the summary table for T0003
-  The table will include a new column to add a link to metat-data attached to each stack. Contrary to T0001 and T0002 metadata will no longer be sent to CADC (see comment below)

Data transfer to CADC
-  Apparently all the QF data (step T0002) has been transferred to CADC
-  From T0002 onwards all the CFHTLS metadata will be stored at TERAPIX, and will probably be accessed through Laurent's web interface

Web-service (Jean-Christophe)
-  Still some testing required; there is a bug which has to be sorted out.

Skywatcher (Jean-Christophe))

-  More improvements made to the interface and the zooming facility
-  RA,DEC of the mouse position now visible on the sky map
-  Static linking implemented, still problems with PLPLOT

PI data (Mirelle)

-  Tully data not processed completely, still very difficult to have a good astrometric solution for the most crowed fields
-  Loic Albert data processed but there is a problem with the background subtration
-  Seymour data processed

WIRCAM (Yannick summarizes latest news from Hawaii
-  Chiara is currently processing 'science grade' wircam data
-  Some debate ongoing with CFHT concerning the format the data will be shipped and deliovred to TERAPIX and/or users. Emmanuel and Chiara working on it.

Visualisation (Anis)
-  Anis is investigating the use of the OpenGL to display FITS images
-  No idea how much time it will take to write a test program to display an image, but it would be probably a good idea to write this kind of program. Something simple that uses CFITSIO and OpenGL to display Megacam images would be a good way to learn these tools and to practice.

Workshop in Bordeaux (Anthony)

-  Mecagrid (nice); distribution of data processing across the machines
-  works on hetergenous networks
-  Available on licence openGL
-  Also a distributed image display view 'paraview' which works on different machines
-  Micromegas, mutiscale image displaying, could be useful for displaying many images at the same time. Could perhaps be useful
-  Some work display on the segmentation of images.
Summary of PaRISTIC days - 87.5 kb
Summary of PaRISTIC days
Presentation of interesting projects for TERAPIX
-  In french
-  Hyperlinks
(PowerPoint, 87.5 kb)

Defectix (Anthony)
-  Chiara has provided extensive bug reports concerning Defectix which has motived Anthony to start working on the code again

Hardware (Fred)

-  Fred continues to make tests on mix5 and seems have isolated the memory modules which are causing problems.
-  mix7 seems to be stable; no crashes reported as yet.

comparison with SDSS (Mathias, from Besancon)

-  Mathias has compared SDSS and CFHTLS photometry and computed empirically the transformation between the CFHTLS magnitude system and SDSS.
-  We would like to know if these transformations agree with what you'd expect based on the SDSS and Megacam filter response curves
-  Mathias will make this merged catalogue available to us probably, on the IAP ftp server.


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