An Approach to Survey Operations
A formal proposal is in ops.proposal.html
The elements:
- Create a signed paper trail for each run, chunk, and plate
- Institute a formal data acceptance step
- Develop a consistent response to our mailing list based science reports
For the testbed system of spectroscopy this will take the form of
monthly reports on dark runs.
The Dark Run Report
The dark run report:
- first, look at the
Dark Run Calender to find out the dates of the dark run,
- then turn to the
SDSS MJD Calender to
find the MJD.
- % setup dp; astrotools;
- astls> surveyAllPlates 19 surveySum.par $spectroRoot
- Next comes the search of the mailing lists:
the
observing logs are to be read as primary, watching the
discussions on
sdss-obs, and
sdss-spectro. Things to look for are problems noted by the
observers, and exposure times for target/science images of
less than 900 seconds.
- If problems found:
edit /data/dp9.a/data/spectro/speclog/$mjd/sdHdrFix-$mjd.par
run sdReport generation?
check into cvs?
the factory will pick up the need to re-reduce
astls> prepareSpectroReport surveySum.par specReport-Feb 52662 52681 19
Survey Strategy
The Mailing Lists
We should have a better rate of reading science reports on the mailing lists.
(see the proposal).
Other Links
Paper Trails
Survey Strategy Databases
Other
- The Knowledge Bases
- We need a FAQ
- We will want a community mailing list, with a searchable archive.
James Annis
15 June 2000
Chicago
