CASB Report July 2003

 

Highlights for Division Meeting

·         GSC 2.3 Export in progress

 

Community Affairs and Communications

·         Lattanzi and Bucciarelli are visiting STScI from OATo to work on GSC-II and GSPC-II publications

·         Planning visits to STScI by Spagna/Carollo (September/October)

·         Finalized agreement with Southern Stars Systems to incorporate DSS2 images into a new amateur astronomy product.

 

Project Management and Technical Infrastructure

·         Server to replace CHART has been received and awaiting CPT installation. Associated RAID arrays to hold CASB image archive have been received and awaiting installation.

 

MISSION SUPPORT

HST Operations

·         Investigated 11 bad guide star alerts.

·         Continued to develop software to update the keywords of the header files.

·         HUGS2 test plan developed

 
NVO Development Studies

·         See NVO report

 
NGST Development Studies

·         No activity

 

                                      DIGITIZED SKY SURVEY

Plate Scanning

·         Continued scanning the POSS-I O (blue) survey plates.

 
GAMMA Microdensitometer Systems

·         GAMMA1 A/D board under construction. Downtime expected to be another few weeks.

·         Scanning continuing on GAMMA2 following mechanical maintenance and adjustments.

 
Data Compression/CD Production

·         Continued processing the POSS-I O (blue) survey plates.

 

GSC-II

COMPASS Database

·         New catalog matching code under development
·         Export task is running – process expected to take several weeks
·         QA of export also in progress
·         Performed large database queries for White

 

Plate Processing

·         Continued processing the POSS-I O (blue) survey plates.

 

Calibrations

·         Bucciarelli is preparing a new release of the GSPC-II

·         Garcia preparing for a CTIO 0.9m GSPC-II observing run

 

 

Science

·         D.Carollo (OATo) attended the IAU General Assembly in Sidney, where she presented the first results of the project carried out in collaboration with the STScI, the Institute of Astronomy  (Cambridge) and the Capodimente Observatory (I) to search for halo WDs based on GSC2 material. A preliminary analysis seems to indicate that  Pop.II WDs do contribute to the galactic dark matter with a fraction of about 0.1% which is much lower than the limit suggested by the microlensing experiments even though it is consistent with the standard models of the halo formation.

 

·         Proper motions for the CRA field NGC 2422  have been derived by OATo staff.

 

                                         

 

 

Appendix – CASB Statistical Summary

 

PLATE PROCESSING STATUS

Survey

Μ

Prefix

Total

SCANS

Total & %

COMPRESS   Total & %

PROCESS Total & %

DBLOAD
Total & %
DBMATCH Total & %

POSS-I E

25/15

XE

936

Completed

Completed

Completed

Completed

Completed

POSS-I O

15

XO

936

801,86%

801, 86%

801, 86%

366, 39%

338, 36%

POSS-QV

25

N

611

Completed

Completed

Completed

195, 32%

95, 16%

POSS-II J

15

XJ

897

Completed

Completed

Completed

Completed

Completed

POSS-II F

15

XP

897

Completed

Completed

Completed

Completed

Completed

POSS-II N

15

XI/IN

890

Completed

Completed

Completed

Completed

Completed

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SERC-J/EJ

25/15

S

894

Completed

Completed

709, 79%

709, 79%

709, 79%

AAO-SES/ER

15

XS/ER

894

Completed

Completed

Completed

740, 83%

740, 83%

AAO-SR

15

GR

116

Completed

Completed

Completed

Completed

Completed

UKSTU-SR

15

RS

112

50, 45%

0, 0%

0, 0%

0, 0%

0, 0%

SERC-QV

15

XV

94

Completed

Completed

Completed

90, 96%

90, 96%

UKST-I

15

IS

894

Completed

Completed

Completed

Completed

Completed

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Special

25

XX

4

Completed

Completed

0, 0%

0, 0%

0, 0%

Black Birch

25

XB

69

Completed

0, 0%

0, 0%

0, 0%

0, 0%

GPO Astrograph

25

XG

49

Completed

0, 0%

0, 0%

0, 0%

0, 0%