Data Processing Group Report for the Week of Feb. 26 - Mar. 2

Note, the Processing web page has moved to the GLIMPSE site.

Babler, Churchwell, Meade, & Whitney met with Rhodri Evans on Feb. 28.
Rhodri works on the HAWC, a far-IR camera for SOFIA.  This could be a good
followup instrument for the galactic plane survey.  Spatial resolution
will be similar to IRAC (better than MIPS).  He has experience with
data reduction and has written several scripts for running IRAF in a "pipeline"
process.  These are at 
http://astro.uchicago.edu/home/web/rhe/Astronomy/scripts.html
Brian got the password from him to access these scripts and can send them
to you in email if you want.

Wolfire improved his Zodi plots and they look cool.  He added IRAC band
averaging for bands 1,2, and 3, and made comparisons
with the Spot model which he will discuss at the telecon tomorrow.

Meade wrote a routine to write the IRAC FITS header example that Tony Marston
sent to a WFPC data FITS file; started to define the FITSIO modules needed
in Level A & B processing; read about 2MASS and HAWC; started working on a 
GLIMPSE data pipeline flow chart.

Babler downloaded SPS (Stellar Photometry Software)
and compiled it on Oort (Linux box); downloaded Dophot and compiled it
on one of the IRIX machine at SAL (not able to compile it successfully on Oort
yet), and is running Daophot with IRAF.  We now have 3 different 
photometry packages that we can test.  

Esquivel's  new task is updating web sites with weekly information.

Wolff investigated f77/c calls from Perl (and vice versa); arranged
for testing of Condor on distributed systems at BRC (milwaukee group);
began work on use of FITS astrometry and plate scale keywords in
GLIMPSE processing algorithms.