2023-11-29 TSO WG Meeting notes

Nestor Espinoza

• All good with the MIR

• Nikolay Nikolov reports on TSOs on the last two weeks: 9 new observations, 8 exoplanet targets — NIRspec/BOTS, MIRI imaging
• 2062 had a guide star failure — however observations apparently were taken. For 2420 guide star failed, but observations didn't go through.
• Nikolay Nikolov notes that the internal TSO monitor is going some changes because sometimes there's erroneous data on the status of observations. So beware!
• Upcoming in the next 2 weeks, 5 more observations coming!

Nestor Espinoza Nikolay Nikolov

• Nestor Espinoza introduces the Detector1 notebook.
• Nikolay Nikolov introduces the spectroscopic extraction notebook:
  - Notebook can be run for both detectors — it first loads rateints, extracts and visualizes wavelength maps.
  - Then, it goes to correct the bad pixels relying on the data-quality flags. It replaces by using values from neighboring pixels. Sarah Kendrew asks why not use the pixel replacing function implemented in the pipeline — Nikolay Nikolov mentions there is a problem with this tool for NIRSpec.
  - Then spectral tracing and extraction happens, prior to some 1/f noise corrections.
  - Finally, you get a spectrum as a function of spectral column — and you get the white-light lightcurves and some wavelength-dependant lightcurves!
• Some feedback from people:
  - Brian Brooks notes that it would be good to highlight the Known Issues page somewhere, so people can go check in the future if an issue has been resolved. Nestor Espinoza thinks this is a great idea! We should put this as a note at the very beggining of the notebook.
  - Sarah Kendrew notes it would also be good to put a link at the top for questions about the notebook. She suggests the link goes to the JWST Helpdesk. Nestor Espinoza also thinks this is a great idea!
  - Michael Regan notes to add comments about running pipeline via multi-processing. Nestor Espinoza notes this will be in a "blue note" in the notebook, too.

Nestor Espinoza Nikolay Nikolov