[News] USM ongoing activities and AI's

[Dr. Mark Neeser]

Ongoing Astro-wise Activities at USM:

Current WP2 activities
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- creation of stand-alone C program for cosmic-ray detection
  and correction on individual frames.  Program uses multi-variate
  fitting of Gaussian profiles.  Although very CPU intensive this
  method has been found to be very reliable, even in the case of
  strongly extended cosmic-ray features.  Current test show that
  with Omega-cam like parameter settings, one can expect a performance
  of about 15 seconds per CCD on a single node.

- initial stages of parameter definition for spectral energy distribution
  and photometric redshift fitting tool.  Still in the process of defining
  the required database input, the python structures necessary to query
  the SED fitting routines (complete), and the GUI with which the user
  will access this program and display its results.

- Neeser will be in Groningen March 9-14 to create and test large data
  set (>4x10^6) database source queries.


WP1 + WP3 and Action Items from the Leiden meeting
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- pipeline and database currently operating in our Beowulf environment,
  with the ability to query data from python prompts.

- USM will act as a test case for a federated database between
  Groningen and Munich.  WFI data will be used to populate database.








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Dr. Mark J. Neeser

Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics,       _/       _/     _/ _/_/  _/
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet Muenchen       _/ _/  _/_/     _/ _/ _/	_/
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Scheinerstrasse 1,                           _/       _/   _/_/ _/    _/
D-81679 Muenchen, Germany

Tel: +49-89-2180-5994
Fax: +49-89-2180-6003

email:  neeser@usm.uni-muenchen.de