Information for 2MASS Science Team Meeting, March 2, 1998


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2MASS Science Team Meeting

IPAC, Pasadena, CA

March 2, 1998

Web info from the presenters is reached by clicking on the presenter's names below. If you don't see it, it ain't there. As of Sunday, 1 March 1998 22:00 PST, there are 18 weblinks.

March 2, 1998
TimeAgenda ItemPresenter
8:30Opening remarksSkrutskie
8:45Survey Status report Stiening, Skrutskie: north camera and south camera
Pipeline Review
9:30Pipeline status reportCutri
10:00DARKS: computes darks, responsivity images, masks Skrutskie
10:30Break 
10:45PIXCAL/DFLAT: computes sky offsets; flattens framesElston
11:00POSMAN: reconstructs inertial positions Monet
11:15PIXPHOT/PICMAN/FREXAS/:
generates coadded images; does point-source detection; computes geometrical model (rubber sheet) for each band; detects point sources for frame offsets and Read1 photometry; computes frame offsets;
computes seeing parameter(s), statistics
Carpenter: FREXAS and PIXPHOT
11:45PROPHOT: does PSF-fitting point-source extraction Weinberg
12:30Working Lunch 
12:45MAPCOR: does Read1 merge; purges ghosts, persistence, and objects too close to bright objects; computes and applies aperture corrections Elias
1:15BANDMERGE: band-merges point sources; applies color terms Liebert
1:30GALWORKS: extracts galaxies; band-fills point sources Schneider/Huchra/Chester
2:15MPCAT: does catalog association to asteroids Price
2:30CALMON: computes and applies photometric calibration Seitzer
3:15Break 
3:30QUALITY: does intermediate-product quality checking; does point-source confirmation for scan overlaps Kirkpatrick
4:00Global calibration considerations and error treeElias. (See also Weinberg.)
4:45Error budgets for other Level 1 specificationsMonet/Chester
5:15First incremental data release plans and team responsibilitiesSkrutskie. (See Data Release Plans)
5:45Core Projects ReportsLiebert, Weinberg, Huchra/Schneider



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Last update: 1 March 1998.