JLS/ACSIS DR telecon – 20100304

Attendance: GAF, JH, CW, PR, JDF, TJ, FE, HST, ACC

Actions from last meeting:

• JAC to make a more compact and readable QA report format and make this log available to observers/co-Is following nightly reduction via the OMP (as a downloadable file).
  • update: there had been correspondence between JennyH and BradC and although there had been some work done, this item had not been completed before BradC left – ONGOING
    
• JLS teams to provide feedback on what should go in parameter file (once JAC have made initial list). – ONGOING
• BradC to work through SLS pipeline and QA requirements as provided to him (and available on SLS wiki)
  • update: following BradC's departure, this will have to be picked up by his replacement (hopefully by next month) – ONGOING
• For JLS teams to provide JAC with images/data/log of spikes when they come across them in their data.
  
  • update: JAC had received some spike examples from SLS. These have been forwarded to DaveB but given his current priorities we may not see any movement on this for a few months yet (summer maybe?) – ONGOING
• ChristineW to pass on NGS QA and moment map making scripts to JAC. – DONE
  
  • ACTION: TimJ to look into whether BradC did code this into the pipeline?
• AntonioC to organise the production of pipeline documentation
  
  • update: some minor organisation of documentation but this has fallen down the list of priorities since the start of SCUBA-2 commissioning – ONGOING/STALLED
• AntonioC to email coords asking them to provide email contacts of people who are reducing ACSIS data and are willing to act as ACSIS DR contacts. – DONE
  
• JLS coords to provide email contacts of people who are reducing ACSIS data and are willing to act as survey DR contacts (send to FrossieE). – DONE
  

News from JAC

• The software group took a big hit to its available effort when BradC left for new employment in February 2010. We are working on buying in some effort from an experienced ex-Starlink programmer to pick up on many of the tasks that Brad left. This person's effort should start becoming available to us from April 2010.
• since the commissioning of SCUBA-2 started and the subsequent onset of SCUBA-2 Shared Risks Observing, JAC has been inundated in SCUBA-2 data
• we can now re-reduce data at the JSA across different UT nights to create so-called "project products". This is a very important step and these products are essentially the Advanced Data Products (ADPs) that the JSA will serve.
• FrossieE continues to submit data reduction jobs to the JSA but is experiencing problems as makecube has been timing out (in project mode) when cubes are very, very large

Report from GBS

• a meeting of the GBS was help in Leiden in February 2010; discussions were held on the QA at that meeting
• there are still missing QA steps in the pipeline reduction. For instance, bad scans are propagating through to final product, (bad scans = one or combination of high rms, many bad pixels, high variation across spectra)
  • ACTION JAC: this is a high priority for the ACSIS pipeline at the JSA and JAC will look into this when effort materialises

Report from NGS

• no issues reported
• observing on the ACSIS portion of the survey has completed.
• the team is reducing the data themselves via student effort; they will then want to upload the final products to the archive

Report from SLS

• the team is focussing on getting all data reduced to then attack QA issue consistently
  • ACTION: GaryF to direct FrossieE to SLS wiki where QA requirements are published
• PaulR and HollyT have enough data now to compare pipeline reduced data with hand reduced data
  • ACTION : PaulR to forward DR documentation to JAC – DONE

Next meeting May 6th.