2024-01-10 TSO WG Meeting notes

Nestor Espinoza Sarah Kendrew 

• Nestor Espinoza advertises the STScI Space Astronomy Summer Program - SASP 2024, which is a good opportunity for undergraduate students to spend 1.5 months in the summer working on an astronomy (science, instrumental, or outreach) project. A prime example is the development of the FGS photometric pipeline 'Spelunker' by Nestor Espinoza 's 2023 student Derod Deal.
• Sarah Kendrew the JWST MIRI team has successfully recruited a TSO expert, who will join STScI this April and will join the TSO WG as MIRI representative.

• Nikolay Nikolov traditionally presented the status of previous and upcoming TSO observations +/-2 weeks from today. There are 3 archived and 11 upcoming observations, covering transits, eclipses, a phase curve and accretion variability.
• Loic Albert mentions a coordinate typo issue that slipped through the cracks and led to useless NIRISS SOSS data. He also mentions several occurrences, where the NIRISS TA would not fail in the case the search aperture happens to be on a portion of the detector, where a hot pixel is present, but no star. Nestor Espinoza mentions that this has been brought to the attention of the NIRISS team and efforts are ongoing to quickly resolve the issue. Sarah Kendrew also mentions that a coordinate type made by the PI of MIRI program has occurred in the past. Nikolay Nikolov suggests that APT parsing code that he has available for TrExoLiSTS and JWST TSO and CalMonitor can be adapted in conjunction with catalog search to verify the coordinates and identify obvious issues in an automatic fashion by the IS reviewer.  

Nestor Espinoza Sarah Kendrew Nikolay Nikolov

Nestor Espinoza Sarah Kendrew