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Meeting notes

T. Andrew Manning edited this page Jun 22, 2026 · 5 revisions

2026/06/22 Blast spring meeting

Agenda

Notes

  • Create an issue for expanding power of querying objects (filter subclasses from DRF)
  • host_utils fetch host spectrum DESI/SDSS/NED query, first result wins, NED is fallback. Create an issue to track work. astroquery direct to SDSS seems faster and more reliable.
  • Define spectral downloads, plot on result page with bokeh
  • David working on Web form for updating host galaxy coordinates with auto retrigger, some hook for triggering dataset revision
  • David still working on Frankenblast
  • add citation info to dataset export in metadata
  • debug_utils.py

2026/06/11 Meeting notes

6-month time scale

  • Dataset versioning: image data is static, might not need to version-control those. SED data files could also be omitted.
  • Incorporate spectral data into Blast
  • Incorporate Starlight, similar SED fitting but using spectra.
  • FrankenBlast integration to increase redshift range and photo-z estimation
  • Interactivity: can users fix poor fits or bad apertures interactively on result pages

Desired improvements

  • Blast user forum for fostering longer-term developer & user community
  • Bulk reprocessing and debugging for users
  • API token for authenticated endpoints like export
  • Port Mac-specific Docker fixes from MUSES CE
  • Users dropping bad filters
  • Add LSST survey
  • Consider using SED fit to make a guess at Supernova type using ML model
  • observability and monitoring for capturing production logs
  • update host galaxies and info with a user form

Evaluation of existing issues

  • Background estimation problem with masked pixels [Bug]
  • pre-compute transient data and post it to the database (solved)
  • Finish adding example transient data (done)
  • Add docker minimum resource requirements to documentation (obsoele)
  • Have an admin monitor dashboard (wont fix)
  • Safe way to automatically squash migrations (close until a problem)
  • Add documentation about using the web interface (done)
  • [Bug] Mask stars to reduce contamination (close with reason)
  • [Bug] Bad host match / cutout selection for some very nearby objects (consider closing with reference to the interactive)
  • serve FITS images via the Blast API (done due to export)

Meeting schedule

Tentative plan is to meet every other Wednesday at 16:00 Chicago time. Expected off-time:

  • Andrew June 24 - July 15
  • David July 24
  • Dvhanil August 17-31

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