ChangeLog for omfchain
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Version 1.43.2 - 2022-07-05 (EO)
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+ src/omfchain.pl: Replaced she-bang /usr/local/bin/perl by
/usr/bin/env perl.
Version 1.43.1 - 2021-01-25 (EO)
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+ doc/fast_blocks2.ps: Exported to EPS format to fix problem in HTML
format figure display, which showed not labels inside diagram box.
Version 1.43 - 2018-02-13 (EO)
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Version 1.42.7 - 2017-12-14 (EO)
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+ doc/omfchain_description.tex: Change to "yes" the default value for
bkgfromingae parameter to be in agreement with actual implementation
of this in code (see change for version 1.42).
Version 1.42.6 - 2014-09-30 (RDS) +(src/omfchain.pl):
- Uses taskmain for options handling (SPR-7237)
Version 1.42.5 - 2014-09-09 (RDS) +(src/omfchain.pl):
- extra fix to bug (SPR-7206) which was precluding
to calculate the background value from the imaging-mode data.
Version 1.42.4 - 2014-05-11 (VNY) +(test/testomfchain):
explicitely set the parameter bkgfromimage to NO
as the test data does not have NAXIS1 keyword in the
first extension
Version 1.42.3 - 2014-05-08 (VNY) +(src/omfchain.pl):
- fixed a bug (SSC SPR report 7209) which was precluding
to calculate the background value from the imaging-mode data.
Version 1.42.2 - 2014-04-02 (EC)
- moved binary data test/*0099010101* to testprods/omfchain_data
Version 1.42.1 - 2013-02-27 (VNY) +(src/omfchain.pl, test/*)
Removed an extra FAST-mode data set from the test folder (to reduce the
test processing time); checked the size of the imaging-mode file
(it will not be used if small).
Version 1.42 - 2012-07-19 (VNY) +(config/omfchain.par)
Changed the default value of the parameter
bkgfromimage to "yes".
Version 1.41 - 2012-03-07 (VNY) +(src/omfchain.pl)
Fixed the problem with picking up the Raw attitude file
(SSC-SPR-6692).
Version 1.40 - 2011-10-05 (VNY) +(src/omfchain.pl)
Corrected the wrong version dated 2011-10-04 (the changes
were made to the downgraded version 1.38); the same changes
to the version 1.39:
Improved the processing of bright source exposures: in
order to exclude casual jumps of the count rates when
the mod8factor for a given exposure exceeds the 0.35 threshold
the analysis of the mod8-factor is made only for the first
exposure of the series. The rest of the exposures are processed
with the same extraction radius as was decided for the first
exposure (no matter was it increased or left to be normal)
Version 1.39 - 2011-06-07 (VNY) +(src/omfchain.pl, param/omfchain.par)
A new parameter (rawattitude) is introduced to control the
averaging of the raw attitude data.
Version 1.38 - 2010-04-21 (VNY) +(src/omfchain.pl, param/omfchain.par)
A new optional parameter maxrawcountrate is introduced to
establish the upper threshold for source PSF-photometry
(required by omdetect).
Version 1.37.1 - 2010-03-26 (VNY): documentation updated.
Version 1.37 - 2010-01-31 (VNY) +(src/omfchain.pl, config/omfchain.par)
The default value of the parameter bkgfromimage is set to NO;
The wrong intermediate image file name is corrected;
Protected against possible shortening of the postscript file
name by pgplot in the task lcplot.
Version 1.36 - 2010-01-31 (VNY) +(DEPEND, config/omfchain.par)
Updating the dependencies; changing the default value
of the parameter bkgfromimage to "yes".
Version 1.35 - 2010-01-26 (VNY) +(src/omfchain.pl, config/omfchain.par)
New parameters are introduced to control the modified
task omlcbuild. The parameter, "bkgfromimage=yes/no"
allows using the background obtained from the accompanying
imaging data. The parameter "psfphotometryenabled=yes/no"
allows psf-photometry of the source in the task omdetect-5.22
Version 1.34.3 - 2008-05-20 (VNY) +(config/omfchain.par) The default value
of the parameter nsigma is set to 3 instead of 2 in order
to reduce the number of spurious sources detected in the
fast window (SSC-SPR-6462).
Version 1.34.2 - 2007-06-07 (VNY) +(src/omfchain.pl) Fixing a bug
of the previous version: by accident a few task were excluded
from processing (restoring them).
Version 1.34.1 - 2007-06-07 (VNY) +(src/omfchain.pl) Increasing the
source extraction radius for very bright sources, which are
badly affected by coincidence losses and modulo-9 noise
in order to avoid negative background counts, which is happen
when applying the standard background calculation procedure
designed for the normal sources. Effectively, in these cases
the background extraction region is forced to zero size
(fixing SSC-SPR-3144).
Version 1.34 - 2006-05-23 (VNY) A protection against generating an empty
PDF-file is introduced (SSC-SPR-3604) for the rare cases when
the omlcbuild task for some reason could not produce the light-curve
PS-plot
Version 1.33.1 - 2006-05-18 (VNY) Checking for the consistency of
the sampling and binning intervals is introduced
(SSC-SPR-3598)
Version 1.33 - 2005-11-10 (VNY) Adjusted to the changes in the
source region file made by omdetect (SSC-SPR-3538)
Version 1.32 - 2005-09-09 (VNY) Dependency file updated to fit the
changed task omlcbuild-1.25 (SSC-SPR-3507)
Version 1.31.8 - 2005-06-15 (VNY) Protected against a crash when a magnifier
filter exposure is found in the ODF (SSC-SPR-3480)
Version 1.31.7 - 2005-05-23 (CB1) Ammended DEPEND file to fix build problem.
Version 1.31.6 - 2004-05-28 (VNY) +(src/omfchain.pl) The subroutine
GetCurrentDirectory is modified in order to protect
it from a failure during the test in Mac-machines
Version 1.31.5 - 2004-05-27 (VNY) +(test/testomfchain) picking un
the SAS_ODF variable is modified in order to avoid test
failure on Mac-machines
Version 1.31.4 - 2004-02-24 (VNY) The statement use DAL removed,
since it is not necessary anymore.
Version 1.31.3 - 2004-02-11 (VNY) The parameter --odf has been
remover from the calls to all of the tasks
(SSC-SPR-3254)
Version 1.31.2 - 2004-02-11 (VNY) the parameter --odf was removed
from the calls to omprep. This could cause crashes in
some computers (SPR-3254)
Version 1.31.1 - 2004-02-01 (VNY) The problem described in
SSC-SPR-3238 is fixed. In the case of the output directoy
chosen to be different from that containing the input ODF
there was a possibility of missin a flat-field file (FFX)
created to satisfy omfastflat task. At the same time the
task is protected against crashing when the verbosity
level is higher than seven.
Version 1.31 - 2003-11-21 (VNY) DEPEND file updated to match
the new version (3.0) of ssclib
Version 1.30 - 2003-09-29 (VNY) A part of the code was restored that
creates a unit flat field file (FFX) in the case of not
finding a real FFX in the curret ODF: this was removed temporarily
for test purposes and not restored by a mistake (SSC-SPR-3151)
Version 1.29 - 2003-06-16 (VNY) the task is cleaned from the PERL-5 error
messages, when the latter is working in its strict mode
Version 1.28 - 2003-02-28 (VNY) DEPEND file modified
now uses DSSLIB-5.2 instead of 4.0
Version 1.27 - 2002-10-21 (VNY) DEPEND file modified: now needs
OMDETECT-4.1 instead of V3.6
Version 1.26 - 2002-09-27 (VNY) DEPEND file updated (now dsslib is 4.0).
First call to OMPREP is modified in accordance to the updated
modeset parameter (modeset=3 for tracking).
Version 1.25 - 2002-06-11 (VNY) +(src/omfchain.pl) Formation of the list
of the input ODF-files is changes in order to cope
with the local codification table at Jupiter machine (SPR-2876)
Version 1.24 - 2002-06-10 (VNY)
+ (src/omfchain.pl) Modified to make it look into the correct
directory for the SAS summary file when SAS_ODF has been set
to point to the file (fixes SPR 2899). A bug with redirection
of the FFX-file has been fixed (SPR-2900).
+(config/omfchain.info): GROUPS parameter has been set
to 'om' instead of 'pipeline'.
Version 1.23 - 2002-05-22 (VNY) DEPEND and +config/onfchain.par files
have been updated in order to work with new PARAM-2.0
Version 1.22.7 - 2002-04-18 (VNY)
+(config/omfchain.par) Default value for the source extraction
radius has been reduced down to 6 pixels in order to
increase signal-to-noise ratio and improve estimation
of background
Version 1.22.6 - 2002-03-26 (CB) DISTRIBUTION changed to world
Version 1.22.5 - 2002-03-22 (VNY)
+(test/0202_0099010101_SCX00000ROS.ASC)
missed orbit file in the test directory has been restored
(SSC-SPR-2817);
smooth size parameter is set to 12 (its default value was 64
that exceeds the Fast Mode window size).
Version 1.22.4 - 2002-03-05 (CB)
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Output was accidentally redirected to a log file- corrected.
Version 1.22.3 - 2002-03-05 (VNY)
+(test/0202_0099010101_SCX00000TCS.FIT) a missed file in the test
directory has been restored
Version 1.22.2 - 2002-01-28 (VNY)
+(src/omfchain.pl) comment on the creation of the Log-file has
been removed
Version 1.22.1 - 2002-01-28 (VNY)
+(config/omfchain.par) values for the optional parameters
have been updated
Version 1.22 - 2002-01-08 (VNY)
+(DEPEND) dependencies file updated to work woth ssclib V2.0
Version 1.21 - 2001-12-14 (VNY)
+(src/omfchain.pl, config/omfchain.par) additional input
parameters have been introduced in order to make possible
online changes of the source extraction radius, as well
as some parameters for online improvement of the source
detectability by omdetect. Dependencies are updated.
Version 1.20.1 - 2001-11-19
+(src/omfchain.pl) The names have been changed for the Tracking
History Plot, Tracking Star Timeseries, and OSW Source List files
(converting them to the pipeline products). PNG-extention of the
Tracking History Plot file was replaced with the extention .PS
(Postscript file), SPR-2630.
Version 1.20 - 2001-10-26
DEPEND file updated to rectify a SOC build problem.
Version 1.19.3 - 2001-10-24
DEPEND file updated to rectify a SOC build problem (interp package)
Version 1.19.2 - 2001-10-23
+ (src/omfchain.pl) a bug with the use of non-existing name
(tmp_eventlist_1) has been rectified
Version 1.19.1 - 2001-10-10 - DEPEND file ammended to rectify a SOC build problem.
Version 1.19 - 2001-10-09
+ (src/omich.pl) Modified so that if the environment variable
SAS_ODF has been set to a directory the input directory is set to
that directory. Further modified so that if the environment variable
SAS_ODF has been set to a SAS Summary file the omichain will
retrieve the ODF directory from that file and set the input
directory to that file. (further fix for SPR 2581)
Version 1.18 - 08.10.2001
Name of flatfield created by omflatgen corrected. Parameter
"oaldirectory" deleted. Log file removed. Environment variable
"SAS_ODF" set automatically to the input directory (SPR 2582).
Documentation updated (SPR 2581).
Version 1.17 - 24.09.2001
"thxset" parameter has been removed from the call to OMLCBUILD;
dependencies have been actualised.
Version 1.16.4 - 07.08.2001
Fixed 12-pixel radius is used for the source extraction region (omregion routine)
Version 1.16.3 - 31.07.2001
Dependencies file has been actualised (omatt V2.23 has been added)
Version 1.16.2 - 30.07.2001
Summary file (SUM) in the test data set have been corrected - the local PATH for the
data set has been removed, SPR-2496
Version 1.16.1 - 27.07.2001
Dependencies have been actualised, SPR 2494
Version 1.16 - 17.07.2001
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- binsize parameter for lcplot routine has been set to 1 (was 5 by deafault);
- bkginner and bkgouter parameters added to the omregion
routine call (default values were 1 and 2, now they are 1.2 and 1.8) in order
to avoid contamination of the background with the source counts;
- dummy flat field file created (FFX) in case it
doesn't exist. Deals now with the absence of the tracking history file as well;
- input file check flags added;
- source magnitudes have been added to the output light
curve file;
- two new parameters (wdxset and sourcelistset) have been
added in the call to the OMLCBUILD in order to correct the photon counts for
the counts loss;
- OSW sky coordinate images are produced as the output of
the programme;
- tmp-eventlist-1 was replaced with PPS-eventlist-file in
the second call for the OMPREP routine;
- output INT-file extention has been replaced with FIT (files
BGDREG, BGRATE, SRCREG, SCRATE);
- produces light-curve time series and output PDF-files
for all sources detected in the OSW;
- conversion from PS to PDF is added for the output light-curve graph;
- output file names are modified in accordance with the PPS specifications;
Version 1.15.1 21 June 2000
Patch to add info file - SPR 1799
Version 1.15 22 March 2000
Added command line parameter functionality using dal
Version 1.14 21 March 2000
Updated files in test harness.
Updated DEPEND file.
Updated ODF sort/check in chain script.
Version 1.13 11 Jan 2000
--odfdir altered to --odf
Version 1.11 20 August 1999
Changed set to table on evselect command line.
Version 1.10 18 August 1999
Updated TCS file in test directory.
Version 1.9 16 August 1999
Updated evselect dependency.
Version 1.8 29 July 1999
updated for new parameters.
Version 1.7 10 December 1998
updated Dependancy file RE: mssllib
Version 1.6 2 December 1998
closed SPR 831 : implicit types in test source code
Version 1.5 3 Nov 1998
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Change dependancy file to acccomodate changes to omthconv
Delete missed line from ODF Summary file.
Version 1.4 28 Oct 1998
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Deleted lines in ODF Summary file. Changed dependancy for
omthconv and omfastshift.
Version 1.3 13 Oct 1998
Changed 'event-frame' tagging subroutine 'locate' output to solve array
out of bounds problem. Changed dependancy file to omfastshift 1.4
Version 1.2: 9 Oct 1998
Updated 'event-frame' locating algorithm in omfasttest.f90
and omfastshift. Changed dependancy file to omfastshift 1.3
Version 1.1: 28 Sep 1998
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Updated script for compatability with omthconv and omfastshift
Version 1.0: 10 Sep 1998
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First version
Version 0.1
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