CASB Report
September 2002
· The CDROM, “The Making of GSC II,” produced at OATo with CASB collaboration, is now available.
· Received the labeled copies with jackets of the GSC2M CDROM from manufacturer.
· Supported several tours of the plate vault during the month, highlighted by a visit from Barry Blumber who is the current director of the NASA Astrobiology Institute.
·
Final
agreement reached between ODM and ESS on home division assignments of staff in
new organization. There will
be no changes at this time.
· Reviewed 6 new Guide Star Problem Reports (GSPRs) this period. Of these, four were fine lock failures. The other two were search failures: a blend near the globular cluster, 47 Tuc, and a small star cluster near the LMC. Filed a Bad GS Alert for each of the GSs.
· Continued to update the keywords of the header files.
·
Greene continued to support NVO activities in
coordination with the JHU – SDSS archive team.
· Collaborating with Rick White in support of research and testing of COMPASS Web Service application, GetSourceByID2 , to access observation parameters by GSC2 name identifiers.
· No activity
· Completed scanning the southern UKST IR plates and plates of northern IR (N) fields that were taken with the UK Schmidt Telescope to complete the northern survey. Resumed scanning the POSS-I O (blue) survey plates
· GAMMA2 continues to operate smoothly. Two instances of mechanical failures occurred during the month. Replacement of the failed parts, actuators, was straightforward and downtime was minimal. Actuators are key components in a heavily used mechanical system.
· Scanning operations on Gamma1 continued without interruption during the previous month.
·
Compressing
of POSSI-O plate scans continued, but CD production has not resumed.
·
Still
investigating the failure of the Young Minds CDROM writer. Continued running
tests in writing CDROM's for the XDSS on Plextor to
ensure the proper settings and compatibility with existing operating systems
and software.
·
Copied
compressed POSSI-O (XO) data from 24 un-mastered CDROMs to the CASBRAIDTEC,
adding 83 regions to the online archive.
· Replied to one helpdesk request for support.
·
As of
· Performed database QA on some test and research fields (mostly POSS-I and POSS quick V), loaded into the database several years ago, and found that they required recalibrations and new matching. This work is in support of planned testing of a proper motion algorithm.
· Continued loading external reference catalogs. Decided to average GSPC-II observations before loading.
· Began planning for ingest of GSC1 into an SQL database.
· Loading and matching POSS-I selected fields for determination of proper motions.
·
Continuing port of the object classifier
application from VMS to Windows 2000.
Calibrations : Photometry (GSPC-II and DSS-I and -II)
· Completed initial testing of a program that will access the current GSC2 database and obtain information needed to create MCO files for calibration purposes. Have released the initial version of the software to the CASB group for further testing and evaluation.
· (OATo ) Submitted two observing proposals:
o CTIO - 3 nights to complete southern program; one more application, for 4 nights, is foreseen for semester 03B);
o JKT - 6 nights to complete northern program (56 targets). Scheduled JKT run Oct 2-11 to observe remaining 100 northern fields.
· Loomis is planning to take the second half of the October observing run.
· (Garcia) Reduced the CTIO 0.9m telescope data from an extension of the July run. As the seeing was very bad, only one of three nights was useful.
· Incorporated six GSC2 southern (B, V, R) sequences into the catalog. Sent the data to OATo, as well as the tapes of the raw data from CTIO runs 24 and 26. (No photons were obtained from Run 25.)
·
Alessandro, Ronald, Mario and Ricky attended the
workshop in
o Alessandro presented a couple of talks regarding proper motions surveys based on GSC-II material;
o Spagna A, Cacciari C., Drimmel R., Kinman T., Lattanzi M., Smart R., "Galaxy structure and kinematics towards the NGP;"
o Lattanzi M., Carollo D., Spagna A., Hodgkin S., McLean B., Smart R, "Faint and exotic objects in GAIA: results from GSC-II."
|
Survey |
Μ |
Prefix |
Total |
SCANS Month/Total/% |
COMPRESS Month/Total/% |
PROCESS
Month/Total/% |
DBLOAD
Month/Total/%
|
DBMATCH
Month/Total/%
|
Notes
|
|
POSS-II J |
15 |
XJ |
897 |
Completed |
Completed |
Completed |
Completed |
Completed |
S4 |
|
POSS-II F |
15 |
XP |
897 |
Completed |
Completed |
Completed |
Completed |
Completed |
S4 |
|
POSS-II N |
15 |
XI |
883 |
Completed |
Completed |
5/878/99 |
0/793/90 |
144/774/88 |
S4 |
|
UKST north IR |
14 |
IN |
14 |
Completed |
0/0/0 |
0/0/0 |
0/0/0 |
0/0/0 |
S7 |
|
AAO-SES |
15 |
XS |
606 |
Completed |
Completed |
Completed |
0/527/87 |
0/527/87 |
S4 |
|
PPARC-ER |
15 |
ER |
288 |
Completed |
Completed |
Completed |
0/213/74 |
0/213/74 |
|
|
AAO-SR |
15 |
GR |
118 |
Completed |
Completed |
0/116/98 |
0/116/98 |
0/116/98 |
S2 |
|
UKST-SR |
15 |
RS |
112 |
0/50/45 |
0/0/0 |
0/0/0 |
0/0/0 |
0/0/0 |
S5 |
|
UKST-I |
15 |
IS |
894 |
3/894/99 |
0/862/96 |
20/866/97 |
24/859/96 |
22/842/94 |
S6 |
|
SERC-J/EJ |
25 |
S |
894 |
Completed |
Completed |
0/365/41 |
0/365/41 |
0/365/41 |
S1 |
|
SERC-J/EJ rescans |
15 |
S |
447 |
0/443/99 |
0/99/22 |
0/344/77 |
0/344/77 |
0/344/77 |
S1 |
|
SERC-QV |
15 |
XV |
94 |
Completed |
Completed |
Completed |
0/90/96 |
0/90/96 |
|
|
POSS-I E |
25 |
XE |
818 |
Completed |
Completed |
Completed |
58/398/49 |
34/46/6 |
S3 |
|
POSS-I E |
15 |
XE |
129 |
Completed |
Completed |
Completed |
0/9/7 |
0/9/7 |
S3 |
|
POSS-I O |
15 |
XO |
936 |
31/592/63 |
0/143/15 |
142/409/44 |
102/105/11 |
|
|
|
POSS-QV |
25 |
N |
611 |
Completed |
Completed |
0/254 |
0/2/0 |
0/0/0 |
|
|
Special |
25 |
XX |
4 |
Completed |
Completed |
0/0/0 |
0/0/0 |
0/0/0 |
|
|
Black Birch |
25 |
XB |
69 |
Completed |
0/0/0 |
0/0/0 |
0/0/0 |
0/0/0 |
|
|
GPO Astrograph |
25 |
XG |
49 |
Completed |
0/0/0 |
0/0/0 |
0/0/0 |
0/0/0 |
|