Date
Attendees
- Sarah Kendrew
- Leonardo Ubeda
- Brian Brooks
- Diane Karakla
- Unknown User (aroy)
- Everett Schlawin
- Michael Regan
- Nikolay Nikolov
- Tony Keyes
- Knicole Colon
- Nestor Espinoza
Apologies:
Meeting agenda:
1. News & Announcements
2. Updates on NIRSpec pipeline validation (Ubeda).
3. 1/f noise analysis updates (all)
4. High-efficiency modes update (Espinoza).
5. TSO Documentation (Kendrew)
Meeting slides
No slides today
Discussion items
Time | Item | Who | Notes |
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5 mins | 1. News & announcements | Everyone |
This led to a length discussion with Michael Regan that for JWST we cannot recover the DN in this way, as the pipeline does not capture the effective time/number of groups used for the slope fitting - corrected for any cosmic ray hits. So the commanded integration length is not accurate. For HST this number is returned, so the calculation can be made accurately. The total number of DN can be recovered, kind of, by using the Poisson noise component, which contains information on the total collecting time, and the gain. But the gain is not absolutely known either, so this is also an approximate method. This warrants further discussion and we may need to open a ticket for the pipeline to return this value. |
2. NIRSpec pipeline validation | |||
Shows notebook that looks at CV3 data and tests the non-linearity correction for NIRSpec. Over the full subarray (512 x 32), the non-linearity correction improves the non-linearity from ~3% to ~1%. This is good, but should be better. Suggestion for the data analysis is to calculate this number only on the pixels that receive flux from the spectrum - right now this number is likely biased by the background pixels that do not receive photons and show only noise. The NIRSpec non-linearity correction method was derived in the Goddard detector lab, prior to delivery to ESA. We do not currently have uncertainties on the correction coefficients. We should really be able to achieve a better NL correction than 1%. Leonardo Ubedawill update the calculation according to the suggestions, and open a JIRA ticket to improve the NL correction. Michael Reganhas compared the NL correction for different instruments and found the NIRSpec method to be best of the 3. MIRI is better than the NIR, MR and Jane Morrison have worked on this extensively - but still room for improvement. | |||
5min | 3. 1/f noise analysis | ||
Nestor Espinoza | The PSD's seen for the NIR instruments are seen to be different. NIRISS in particular has some extra wiggles in the PSD. Unknown User (aroy) did the analysis on OTIS and CV3 darks, checking also the reference pixel correction step - which gave the same results. These wiggles seem to be real and not an analysis artefact. Diane has been working on trying to simulate subarray darks for small subarrays based on full arrays darks. Tried this for subarray for which data is available, so the simulation can be compared against real data, and this turned out to be successful. She has also applied this to NIRISS, and finds the same profile as Arpita - this is very preliminary but promising. NIRSpec has subarrays that are too small to have enough non-signal pixels to perform the col-by-col subtraction, so this method of creating simulated subarray darks is really promising. | ||
5 mins | 4.HIgh-efficiency modes | Has been in touch with Natasha Batalha re. impact study for the high-efficiency modes. Nestor developed a web scraping tool that extracts all target and exposure info from the JWST webpages, and this will be used as input data for the study. Natasha will get back to us about her study by early Aug. We do need some info on the technical parameters from Mike Regan, who will work on this together with Eddie. | |
5 mins | 5. JDox | ||
Sarah Kendrew | Tickets have been filed for the new content ( JDOXCM-301 - Getting issue details... STATUS JDOXCM-302 - Getting issue details... STATUS ), . SK will talk to Alaina to determine the workflow and SK will contact other team members to get started on this effort. NN would like to know how the time allocation was calculated for this effort and NE will send more details about that. |