SNfactory Software we need but don't have:

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NEAT field selection  [3 wks]

 current moon avoidance
 future moon avoidance
 follow-up potential (e.g. visible last half of night for 2 months)

Maui field rotation [1 wk]

NEAT image transfer monitor  [1 - 4 wks]

 speed
 interupts log
 alarm
 caching status and log
 switch to T1 backup (Palomar)

Candidate catalog cross-id (from NED & SIMBAD) [1 - 2 wks]

 known redshift and other host galaxy parameters (size, orientation)
 QSO/variable star
 star forming galaxy

Construction of historic NEAT lightcurves for all candidates [8 wks]

Image-quality feedback [4 wks]

Photometric bootstrap calibration (standard stars & image overlaps) [4 wks]

Backup (databases, NEAT hdr info, etc.) [4 wks]

(total 18 - 22 wks)


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Scheduling:
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Follow-up scheduler (can we use SPIKE?)  [4 - 16 wks]

 N-telescopes
 current weather forecast
 future weather forecast
 current time available
 future time available
 current moon avoidance
 future moon avoidance
 candidate ranking
 active SN ranking (higher ranking if already invested)
 investment options

(total 4 - 16 wks)


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Generic Follow-up implementation
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SNIFS observing script (see webpage description) [8 - 12 wks]

Processing of SNIFS imaging data [8 - 12 wks]

  Automated field identification
  on-the-fly extinction estimatation (including web plots)
  on-the-fly cross calibration of imager and spectrograph (including web plots)

Autoguider control [2 wks]

Autoguider output  [1 wk]

 flux variations --> photometric no not
 mean seeing / seeing distribution

Environmental inputs (log in database or use header was database) [1 - 4 wks]

 CSO H2O column
 Mauna Loa extinction
 local wind speed and direction
 humidty
 temperature (inside dome and outside)
 CCD temperature
 
Cryotiger monitor/alarm [1 - 2 wks]

(total 21 - 33 wks)


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Follow-up Spectroscopy
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Processing of SNIFS spectroscopic data

 Standard spectral reduction
 Point-source extraction
 Galaxy extraction

 point-source spectral classification
 SN redshift
 SN spectral analysis 
 Galaxy spectral classification
 Galaxy redshift
 Galaxy spectral analysis
 Generation of synthetic photometry
 Flexure monitoring (using arc lines; store and plot)

Lightcurve fitting with projection (and projection uncertainty) (8 - 12 wks)


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Pipeline integration and testing
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Needs to be detailed [12 - 24 wks]

drafted by Greg Aldering, Feb 15, 2001