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Planning Meeting 2020 03 18

Laura Hayes edited this page Apr 2, 2020 · 9 revisions

Attendance: @samaloney @hayesla @DanRyanIrish @rschwartz70 @binchensun @ianan @KriSun95


Topics

  • HDEE proposal (Are the due dates changing?)
  • PR statuses - (pull request!!!)
  • Goals about compatibility, equivalence to current IDL
  • Concrete test cases for RHESSI, NuStar, Fermi ...? --Adding a specific response matrix should be feasible and not difficult. So what we mean by a model would have parameters input for the electron function and the output should be counts in channels
  • Repo stuff actions, tests, pipelines
  • Strategic Package Organization
  • Strategic Infrastructure Usage

Discussion

  • HDEE proposal discussion - lets go ahead with it.
  • How are we going to organize the package - still at a stage to get to something thats works. Trying to develop how we ultimately want to look. Want it to play nicely with other python infrastructure. Learn as we go.
  • Breaking out, or making it more modular the design of the codes (e.g. f_vth).
  • What is the rundown in astropy - model composition part - does not include DRM - need to build that into the model that you want to fit.
  • If you inherent from a base class - then changing this down the road is very difficult - lets be nimble.
  • Fundamentally still have issues with response matrices and the model.
  • Photon space model but also need this extra instrumental part.
  • Instrument agnostic - then use small packages for each instrument with response matrix in the standard X-ray format.
  • Breadboarded all the way through NuStar and astropy fitting and get a demonstration - which would be very powerful for the HDEE -
  • Two NuStar events - one thermal (Kris) and also (non-thermal too) Lindsay that we can play around with.
  • Create issue about everything to keep track of everything - don’t need a random PR
  • Do we want to get the SSWIDL-->python codes then file them away and start again in a more ‘pythonic’ format.
  • Shane’s PR is working - more tests to be written and then will be reviewed and merged
  • Find some suitable RHESSI or new star data - some kind of python structure along with its response matrix- where should they go?

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