Astro-Wise Workshop

 General Tutorial to the Astro-Wise system

14 - 18 November 2005

at the Lorentz centre - Sterrewacht Leiden.
http://www.lc.leidenuniv.nl/

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Monday 14 November CHAIR  Edwin Valentijn

General Introduction

09:00 - 09:30 Start of workshop: Introduction
09:30 - 11:30
- The Information System -
                            Overview of components: dataserver/databaseserver
                          - instrument calibration ; no observation calibration
                          - datamodel ->object model
                          - the components
                          - brief demo of dbviewer, CalTS, Targetprocessing and web awe prompt
                         
11:30 - 12:00 OmegaCAM Instrument level characterization
12:00 - 12:30 Running AstroWise on WFI@2.2m, MDM

12:30 - 14:00
Lunch

14:00 - 14:30  Demo Python and AstroWise to introduce AstroWise speak
14:30 - 15:00  Exercises: the awe prompt basics

15:15 - 15:30 Coffee

15:30 - 16:45 
Exercises: the awe prompt basics ctd & basic calibration tasks
16:45 - 17:00   re-convene
17:00 - 19:00  Wine and  Cheese party

Venue

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Speaker

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Edwin Valentijn





John McFarland

Sikkema,Schneider



Ewout Helmich
 







Tuesday 15 November  CHAIR Erik Deul

Astrometry - Photometry
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09:00 - 10:00 Astrometric solutions
                        
- single chip solution and QCs
                         - global solution and QC
10:00 - 10:30 Astrometry at Terapix - Scamp

10:30 - 11:00 Coffee

11:00 - 12:30 Photometric Pipelines
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Photometric Calibration plan
                         - Secondary standards
                         - zeropoint, extinction
                         - illumination correction
 
12:30 - 14:00
Lunch

14:00 - 14:30
Visualisation demo
14:30 - 15:15 exercises: photometry

15:15 - 15:30 Coffee

15:30 - 17:30
Exercises: photometry ctd & astrometry
17:30- 17:45  Re-convene

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Erik Deul


Emmanuel Bertin



Ronald Vermeij








Michiel Tempelaar










19:30                Conference Diner- Malle Jan



Wednesday 16 November CHAIR  Danny Boxhoorn /Kor Begeman

Making and searching SourceLists, AssociateLists
Datamining
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Speaker

09:00 - 10:00 Introduction -
                          - Data analysis by querying:
                          - Python
                          - SQL
10:00 - 10:30 Interactive AstroWise/Python: plotting query results

10:30 - 11:00
Coffee

11:00 - 11:30
Context
11:30-  12:30
SourceList, AssociateList demo

12:30 - 14:00
Lunch


14:00 - 18:00 Outing: boat tour on Leiden canals & visit to Museum Naturalis

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Danny Boxhoorn
Kor Begeman


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Kor Begeman


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Thursday 17 November  CHAIR Roberto Silvotti
 Quality control and preparing surveys
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09:00 - 09:30 QC of  BIAS, FF and fringing
09:30 - 10:00 CalTS as project tool -GUI
10:00 - 10:30 open

10:30 - 11:00
Coffee

11:00 - 11:30
Cosmics, Satelites, masking, weights
11:30 - 12:00 VODIA (VST OmegaCAM Difference Image Analysis)
12:00 - 12:30 Photometric -z tool including demo

12:30 - 14:00
Lunch

14:00 - 15:00
Exercises: Data mining
                
15:00 - 15:15 Coffee

15:15 - 17:45
Exercises: Data mining ctd;  variability tool
17:45 - 18:00 Re-convene

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Fedor Getman
Willem-Jan Vriend




Helmich/USM
Silvio Leccia
Jan Snigula









 
Friday 18  November  CHAIR Mark Neeser

09:00 - 10:30 Setting up projects/surveys
                          Setting up nodes, satellites

10:30 - 11:00 Coffee

11:00 - 11:45 CFHT - MegaCAM results 
11:45 - 12:30 VST16, OmegaWhite, VESUVIO

12:30 - 14:00 Lunch

14:00 - 14:15
KIDS
14:15 - 15:00
Open: brainstorm for next steps with awe and projects

15:00 - 15:15
Coffee

15:15 - 15:30
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project leaders




Yannick  Mellier
Paul Groot
Edwin Valentijn


Koen Kuijken


End of meeting






Background documentation:   now collected at www.astro-wise.org/portal