From: Vitaliy Fadeyev (VAFadeyev@lbl.gov)
Date: Sun Apr 04 2004 - 14:48:01 PDT
Hm. Yes, its tedious, but not too bad. Actually the process uses very little
brain CPU, mostly finger work with the mouse. At this point there around
60 hostless candidates to go through. We've screened the ones with the host
already.
vitaliy
"Robert A. Knop Jr." wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 04, 2004 at 02:30:13PM -0700, Greg Aldering wrote:
> > Rob, is there a directory where all the tile postscript files reside?
> > Printing them and sorting by cases would be much faster than clicking
> > through each case in SNtrak. (Although if I know Gerson, he's got them
> > all printed!).
>
> Many of the tiles ps files will be in /home/astro80/deep2/acsapr, but
> you need to make sure they are mirrored down to Berkeley first (most of
> which will be). Look at "*.tiles.ps" in that directory.
>
> However, each candidate will still require somebody to go back by hand
> anyway. Unless "no host" is a throw-out critereon (in whih case we
> should stop saving those in the first place), the tiles postscript files
> aren't going to tell you what you need to do. Fortunately, it doesn't
> take *too* long to use imview to look at the individual images, and in
> 90% of the cases where it's a cosmic ray it will be obvious that it is
> so. A couple people need to spend a couple of hours going through the
> gigantic list of candidates an culling out the ones that are obvious
> cosmic rays. Yes, it's a bit slow, and yes, it's drugery, but those
> kinds of things go into a search like this. (Believe me, I know about
> long, slow, drugerous processes with searches!)
>
> -Rob
>
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