============ To Do List ============ (Move items to the bottom of this file, under the COMPLETED heading, when done.) o SAUL Pre-arrange follow-up observing at every telescope that has the right instruments on at the right time, with an observer who would like to help: o NOT: Ariel (Arrange observing, if we got time) o Palomar: Willick (Was supposed to send schedules) o MDM: Mateo, Schield... o NTT/3.6m: Danziger, Della Valle,... o Keck: Cohen, Koo, ... o ARC: Hogen o McDonald: Wheeler o SSO2.3 Dopita, Mould o KPNO (nights that we are not on the telescopes) o MMT Kirshner o CFHT ? o CTIO ? o AAT Rawlings (ask Ellis to ask) o Steward 90" ? o WHT/INT (nights we are not on the telescopes) o Cananea Carl? o SAUL Prepare WWW Page for outside collaborating observers: should hold finding charts. o SAUL Get instructions from Bev Oke on how to replicate slit angle position, etc. for Keck observation of SN we already have, but for which we do not have good calibration. o SAUL+group Choose number of exposures per reference image and exposure time. We already know that we need two for the clusters for which we have old reference images from last winter. o REYNALD Test monitor program on >5 fields with different SNe to check that the S/N estimate is close to correct. Also check this on one of our calibration fields to see that the magnitudes are approximately (~+-0.25 mag) correct. o JULIA?+IVAN+MATTHEW Test image cleaning (with new DB files) o IVAN+JULIA Plan and EXPLAIN TO EVERYONE file organization during the run. o JULIA Complete file arrangement and header preparation for run, and document where everything is so that everybody in group can find things. (E-mail everybody to announce were the documentation is.) o IVAN?+DON?+DAVID? Write and test program(s) to feed lists of files to: o candidate-ranking program? o ALEX Write and test candidate ranking program. What graphics will be available to the user to make his/her decision? o ISOBEL?+REYNALD?+IVAN Write and test new version of finding chart program that uses matching info already available. ___________________________________________________________________ o ALEX+MATTHEW Completion and testing of Scanning program: ___________________________________________________________________ oo Plan use of printout (will it get put in binders? in what order?) oo The candidates that come out of the scanning program ("scancan's") each need a name, so that we can refer to them in conversation without using a 20 digit filename. This could be "sc1, sc2, sc3 ..." or "a, b, c, ... aa, bb, cc, ... aaa, bbb..." or whatever, but it has to be findable. oo the scanning program should show representative/standard stars, representative galaxies, and fake SNe in the "profile plots" that we used to see, so that we can tell if the subtraction is good -- and how it's bad if it's bad. ___________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________ o IVAN+ALEX Figure out why aperture routine seems to be recentroiding when it shouldn't. (This could be very important!) o IVAN Finish database synchronization --release DB to everybody! o IVAN Prepare new release with every routine in a new directory structure under a new CVS control, with pre-compilation of the IDL routines built in. o IVAN+ALEX+EVERYBODY! Top-to-bottom test (from raw image to monitor program to cleaned image to subtraction to scanning to choice of candidates to follow-up lightcurves to finding charts and decisions of what spectra to take) of >50 fields as if they were arriving night-by-night to see: --how long does it take to complete analysis (up to the point of knowing what needs to be looked at a second time)? --do we find all of the SNe that we used to? --how many false alarms do we find (and want to follow)? o ALEX+IVAN Same top-to-botom test of >5 fields with fake SNe. o EVERYBODY Document your part of the analysis in the file /home/panisse/www/htdocs/groupwork/analysis/overview.html o SAUL Make sure that the KPNO programs are ready and tested to compress and automatically send the data to Berkeley while observing. o REYNALD+SAUL+... Choose exposure times and colors for follow-up images of SNe. o SAUL Get new disks (2 x 9Gbyte) and 2 Sparc 5's delivered and installed. Replace dead disk in blondies.lbl.gov. Upgrade order for one X terminal. o SAUL Get Ted Sopher to test the network traffic. o SAUL Send warning message to the computer, network and construction & maintance people telling them our run dates -- when NOT to have power outages, new networks installed, etc. ======================= COMPLETED ======================= (move items here as they are completed) oo the scanning program should show representative/standard stars, representative galaxies, and fake SNe in the tile display so that we can tell if the subtraction is good -- and how it's bad if it's bad. oo the tile display should highlight in red and green the "bad" and "good" scores. oo the tile display should show the name of the candidate file that would be created if the scanner keeps the event, so that the scanner can look at the previous history of this candidate if necessary. (Also, should show the "scancan" name mentioned above ("sc1,...").) oo the tile display should toggle between showing tiles that are "convolved & moved" and show tiles that are "unconvolved & unmoved" i.e. the original images. (I think this is important.) oo The overview display should be able to show histograms of scores. o IVAN Finish incorporating APM matching routines into Image Reduction program. o SAUL Get OK of Jeremy Mould (one of the astronomers Sandage trusts) and send paper and reply to Sandage. o SAUL Can Mosaic or Collage read netCDF files? [The answer is that Collage CAN read netCDF files, but it's most useful for displaying images, not data lists. Mosaic can read these files and then pass them to Collage for display, but only if it's set up to handle DTM data-passing; our version seems not to be set up this way. oo Build in printout automatically printed when a candidate is saved. oo the tile display should show "cross hairs" indicating where the candidate is supposed to be on each of the images. (This is particularly important in the "unconvolved/unmoved" display.) o REYNALD Prepare finding charts centered on host galaxies for SN for which we do not yet know the redshift. Put in "snobserver" WWW page. (This is important to do very soon, so that we can get Filippenko ready.) o REYNALD+RICHARD+SAUL Choose fields for tiling, and choose which tiles are good (not ruined by bright star(s)) for Sept 8 run. o REYNALD Prepare hour-by-hour day-by-day guide for observer at telescope. What does he need to know to decide what to observe the next minute. o ISOBEL+REYNALD Prepare finding charts for Sept 8 run. We want either an old image from last winter or an APM chart for every possible target field. o REYNALD+ALEX Choose (and add to observer's list) calibration fields for all times of night. Decide how often we need to observe one of these. o REYNALD Choose which fields will be used to focus on. Probably this should be one of the fields we are observing anyway. Prepare a specific finding chart for this field with a number of stars chosen on it that will be halfway from the center to the edge that we will actually focus on. o IVAN+MATTHEW Check flat-field building program. Does it work with new DB files? oo the tile display should show "sliceplot" of new on reference and sliceplot of difference (probably on a different window?) o IVAN?+DON?+DAVID? Write and test program(s) to feed lists of files to: o subtraction program o cleaning program? o scanning program?