Attendees: Tom, Don, Richard and Nadia.
News:
- Don have tried the C version of LA cosmic and now the processing time is: only run on exposures > 60s and gets the processing time per image from 20 min to about 5 min per image.
- Nadia have been interacting with Rollin Thomas, from LBL, who provided interesting ideas regarding modelling the background for subtraction purposes.
4th November at 1PM (Wednesday), there is a meeting with Steve Groom-IPAC (archive of SEDM data):
- Comments need to be sent regarding fits files names, folder names and fields to be added into the fits files.
Engineering objectives for the next November 14th - 18th run:
- Check new modifications to the pipeline have the expected accuracy and performance.
- Test the pointing accuracy. Checking the balance of the telescope on site. (Similar case to Robo-AO).
- T-point to be done the first day if there is a significant change in the balance.
- Try new acquisition method using Jennifer's code.
- Gather additional data on pointing offsets to test whether there are any systematics.
- Initial classification using SNID. Nadia will install SNID on pharos.
- Test initial automatisation developments.
Science objectives:
- Gather an initial list of bright-ish targets for SEDM. By the beginning of the run, there should be a list of young and interesting targets. Either any of the P60 follow-up candidates, or new and young objects. To be mentioned in iPTF meeting on Wednesday.
- Automatic initial target list could be produced from marshall candidates.
- Put together an observing plan for 5 nights.
Topics of improvement:
- Simulate cosmic rays in a bright star image in order to find the optimum cosmic ray removal parameters (Don).
- PSF extraction of spectra from IFU (Nadia).
- Automatisation of exposures (Richard).
- Automatisation of power control for the lamps (to confirm with John). Where to mount them, power control, etc.
Next meeting: 9th November at 1:30PM
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NadiaBlagorodnova - 27 Oct 2015