Minutes for the terameeting of March 25th 2008

Present: Yannick, Patrick, Gregory, Henry Joy, Mathias M., Mathias S. (videoconf), Emmanuel, Fred (partly).

Emmanuel's summary document

MEGACAM T05 operations
 Mathias will redo the offset and sigma plots using common magnitude cuts (-0.05 - +0.05 mag for instance).

WIRCAM PI operations
 Henry Joy should make sure that the PIs of COSMOS and WIRDS have explicitely allowed TERAPIX to download the data from CADC.
 Yannick asks Henry Joy to prepare an executive summary describing the WIRDS data and what Willott wants to be done (deadline: April 3).
 The Dwelly data will be released this afternoon.
 Patrick will perform additional photometric checks on the Balogh data before releasing them, in particular to understand if the dispersion is a consequence of photometric inhomogeneities.

T05 developments
 Greg and Mathias M. will work together this afternoon and check if they need to modify the existing database model to perform queries for survey statistics.
 Greg and Mathias M. will try to set up Django_gis as a the default Django installation (deadline: Wednesday 26).

System/hardware
 Frederic has spent most of the week looking for a labeling device working on thermo-retractable sheaths.
 All TERAPIX and Cosmix cluster machines will be switched off this afternoon. Fred will make sure that downtime is kept to a minimum for terapix.iap.fr.

Miscellaneous
 Yannick points out that TERAPIX is commited to process part of the VST survey data using the Astro-WISE pipeline, but not the UltraVISTA survey. Because of tight manpower constraints, TERAPIX will install the Astro-WISE pipeline when a precise date is set for the start of the VST.
 Henry Joy mentions that the Vista ZPN header keywords cause trouble in QualityFITS. Emmanuel will check if his software can be fixed to have it working (suggested deadline: April 11).

Next terameeting: TBD