CASB Report April 2004

 

Highlights for Division Meeting

Community Affairs and Communications

·         Ricky Smart from OATo visited STScI to work on GSC2 paper and data for science projects.

·         Duncan Law-Green visited from the Leicester Archive Center to arrange transfer of DSS to a mirror site in the UK.

·         Provided support for tour by visiting observatory business staff

Project Management and Technical Infrastructure

·         Replaced another COMPASS RAID array disk that failed. NOTE – this array is 4 years old so should be replaced in FY05 ED05.

·         Replaced two VMS RAID array disks that failed – this was on pipeline processing disks so all currently processing data was lost and had to be reprocessed. Thanks to Tom Walker (CPT) for his excellent support in restoring operations.

·         VAX/VMS system GSSSA was restored into operation to support compression pipeline.

 

MISSION SUPPORT

HST Operations

·         Investigated 2 GS failures – one was due to GS proper motion.

·         Continued providing support to NGSS development team.

·         Continued support of HST coordinates working group.

 
NVO Development Studies
NGST Development Studies

 

DIGITIZED SKY SURVEY

Plate Scanning

·         Met with Imants Platais (JHU) to discuss scanning 4m plates to support an HST proposal

GAMMA Microdensitometer Systems

·         Began procedures to fabricate plate holder for 8x10 4m plates.

Data Compression/CD Production

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

Data Archive

·         Migration of VMS media to new RAID arrays in progress (25% complete)

 

GSC-II

COMPASS Database (N.Objects = 1,142,681,456, Export= 939,596,556)

·         GSC 2.3 Release notes being revised to support NGSS development
·         QA of export continuing at both STScI and OATo
·         Continued loading of POSS QV plates and equatorial zones.

Plate Processing

Calibrations

Science

·         Spagna presented a poster on data mining the GSC2 and related science projects at a meeting of the Italian Astronomical Society.

 


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

Completed

830, 89%

830, 89%

666,71%

651, 70%

POSS-QV

25

N

611

Completed

Completed

Completed

346, 57%

339, 55%

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

Completed

763, 85%

760, 85%

AAO-SES/ER

15

XS/ER

894

Completed

Completed

Completed

802, 89%

798, 89%

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%