COLLECTED IDEAS ABOUT ISSW IMPROVEMENTS FOR OSA 3.1 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% CAO's Plans %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2003 13:06:06 +0100 (MET) From: Carol Anne Oxborrow Subject: For OSA 3.1 To: peter.kretschmar@obs.unige.ch, stefan@astro.su.se, smaisala@astro.helsinki.fi, jerome, silvia.martinez@uv.es., njw, nl Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-MD5: oZlEsSfQxw6AWmn1eUgHew== Dear SDASTers, the last AI of the Valencia meeting suggested (well, demanded, actually) that we circulate emails listing software improvements that will be available for OSA 3.1. Here's my list: 1) All the current open SPRs and SCREWs will be closed, but these are all pretty minor: no warning for missing raw data in j_prp_verify; producing FWHM relative resolutions and weeding out null data and anti-glitches for j_calib_gain_fitting; updating an obsolete attribute list for j_dead_time_calc; handling transient hotspots in j_cor_position. [SCREWs: 1318, 1261,1278; SPRs: 3273, 3241, 3385, 3382, 3293] 2) Improved gain fitting smoothing model if this should be necessary now that we don't have a real decay in our data. Remains to be seen if this is even necessary. 3) Improved deadtime calculation if this should prove to be necessary. 4) Not exactly OSA related: j_ical tools in first ISDC delivered form should be available between now and OSA 3.1 release: j_ical_frss (nearly complete already); j_ical_gain (60% complete) ; j_ical_anodes (nearly complete); j_ical_ecal (nearly complete); j_ical_collimator (not begun yet) 5) ADD 8.1 - let's not forget, documentation is also a deliverable! That's all. Once all the j_icals are ISDC-ready, I could take a look at the dream tool list. Best wishes, Carol Anne .DANISH.SPACE.RESEARCH.INSTITUTE.DANISH.SPACE.RESEARCH.INSTITUTE.DANISH. Dr. Carol Anne Oxborrow Email: oxborrow@dsri.dk Homepage: http://www.dsri.dk/~oxborrow Telephone (direct): +45 35 32 57 33 Telephone (secretary): +45 35 32 57 01 Fax: +45 35 36 24 75 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% NJW's Plans %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% X-Original-To: oxborrow@dsri.dk Delivered-To: oxborrow@dsri.dk Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2003 13:26:42 +0100 (MET) From: Niels Joergen Westergaard Subject: For OSA3.1 To: allan@dsri.dk, njw@dsri.dk, silvia.martinez@uv.es, stefan@astro.su.se, juhani.huovelin@astro.helsinki.fi, smaisala@astro.helsinki.fi, peter.kretschmar@obs.unige.ch, oxborrow@dsri.dk, sb@dsri.dk, jerome@dsri.dk MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Content-MD5: +VqrvGziV+8vOIVxYI4IWw== Hi, here is what I have in mind: 1) j_ima_shadowgram to make a test of the predicted background versus the shadowgram actually built to avoid large discripancies. 2) j_ima_basic_recon to produce the variance map. 3) j_ima_src_find. Fix the SPRs. 4) j_ima_cor_intensity. No big changes foreseen this time. First the vignetting issue must be solved in a solid way. Regards Niels Jørgen ---------- Niels J. Westergaard Danish Space Research Institute Juliane Maries Vej 30, DK 2100 Copenhagen O Phone: +45 35 32 57 05; FAX: +45 35 36 24 75 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% PK's plans %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% X-Original-To: oxborrow@dsri.dk Delivered-To: oxborrow@dsri.dk Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2003 12:34:18 +0100 From: Peter Kretschmar Subject: Re: Chat results To: Carol Anne Oxborrow MIME-version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT X-Accept-Language: de,fr X-Comment: This message was scanned against viruses by mbx.unige.ch. I plan to update - j_bin_evts_spectra - j_bin_spec_spectra - j_bin_bkg_spectra - j_bin_evts_lc - j_bin_rate_lc - j_bin_bkg_lc all for the flux normalization to 100 cm^2 and any further SPRs. Regards, Peter %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% SL's plans %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Updates of j_src_lc and j_src_spectra will contain some bug fixes. I will clean off most of the present SPRs, keywords, free memory etc. Error estimates will be improved (to reduce the low count rate problem) The energy dependence of the detector resolution is partly taken into account. Peter: Good! Do you see any progress on the remaining vignetting issues? I am working on the support structure which may or may not be included. I hope the support structure will improve on that. As soon as I have time I will test how that affects the vignetting. %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% SM's Plans %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% - I will clean off all of my SPR:s - I 'might' do some improvements to the bkg selection criterias. - My main task is now to analyze blank field scw:s and make new bkg models. %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%