PSP QA for run 4269, rerun 157


Data reduced with photo v5_5_11

QA produced on Fri Nov 11 00:54:23 EST 2005 with photo version v5_5_11


Field Quality (nFields=485)
quality nOK nHOLE% HOLE
union 0 485 100.0*
col. 1 0 485 100.0*
col. 2 0 485 100.0*
col. 3 0 485 100.0*
col. 4 0 485 100.0*
col. 5 0 485 100.0*
col. 6 0 485 100.0*

*Red entries are triggered by the percentage of unacceptable fields exceeding
5 in any column, or 15 for the union of all columns.
PSP status plot


PSF width (FWHM arcsec) statistics for column 6, filter r:
Mean PSF width = 0.45
Median = 0.45, min = 0.45, max = 0.45
There are 0 fields ( 0.0%) with PSFwidth > 4.0 arcsec
This run is 485 fields long.
PSF width plot for all 30 chips
PSF width derivative plot for all 30 chips


Mean PSP status (0=OK)
bandugriz
col. 1 3.00 3.00 3.00 3.00 3.00
col. 2 3.00 3.00 3.00 3.01 3.00
col. 3 3.00 3.00 3.00 3.01 3.00
col. 4 3.00 3.00 3.00 3.00 3.00
col. 5 3.00 3.00 3.00 3.00 3.00
col. 6 3.00 3.00 3.00 3.01 3.00

PSP status plot

Mean N stars for estimating PSF
bandugriz
col. 1 0.0* 0.0* 0.0* 0.0* 0.0*
col. 2 0.0* 0.0* 0.0* 0.0* 0.0*
col. 3 0.0* 0.0* 0.0* 0.0* 0.0*
col. 4 0.0* 0.0* 0.0* 0.0* 0.0*
col. 5 0.0* 0.0* 0.0* 0.0* 0.0*
col. 6 0.0* 0.0* 0.0* 0.0* 0.0*

*Red entries are triggered by Nstars < 10
Number of stars used for estimating PSF

Mean m(aperture)-m(psf) Bias (mag)
bandugriz
col. 1 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
col. 2 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
col. 3 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
col. 4 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
col. 5 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
col. 6 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00

Aperture Correction Bias plot

Mean m(aperture)-m(psf) Error (mag)
bandugriz
col. 1 1.00* 1.00* 1.00* 1.00* 1.00*
col. 2 1.00* 1.00* 1.00* 1.00* 1.00*
col. 3 1.00* 1.00* 1.00* 1.00* 1.00*
col. 4 1.00* 1.00* 1.00* 1.00* 1.00*
col. 5 1.00* 1.00* 1.00* 1.00* 1.00*
col. 6 1.00* 1.00* 1.00* 1.00* 1.00*

*Red entries are triggered by
apCorr Error > ( 0.15 0.10 0.10 0.10 0.15) mags in (u g r i z)
Aperture Correction Error plot
A few related auxiliary plots:
Aperture Correction Scatter (w/o bias contribution)
Power-law index for the outer PSF
Kolmogoroff exponents

Sky brightness* (mag/arsec2)
bandugriz
mean 18.32 18.44 17.66 17.00 15.76
max 18.41 18.50 17.70 17.08 15.85
min 18.17** 18.35** 17.56** 16.86** 15.59**
*Averaged over 6 columns

**Red entries are triggered by
min Sky < ( 21.2 21.0 20.0 19.2 18.0) mag in (u g r i z)
Sky brightness (in counts) plot
Sky brightness (in mag/arcsec2) plot
Sky derivative plot
Sky colors plot

Mean Sky Column offsets
bandugriz
col. 1 -0.02 -0.46* 0.03 0.02 0.02
col. 2 -0.03 0.08 -0.00 -0.04 -0.04
col. 3 0.04 0.10 -0.02 0.01 -0.03
col. 4 -0.06 0.10 0.00 0.01 -0.03
col. 5 0.08 0.12 -0.01 0.01 0.05
col. 6 -0.02 0.06 0.00 -0.01 0.03

*Red entries are triggered by abs(offset) > 0.15 mag


The noise is estimated from the width of the sky histogram, corrected
for the dark variance, and normalized by the Poisson value:
norm. spurious noise = sqrt[gain*(sigma_sky^2-dark_var)/sky]
Values significantly larger than 1 indicate the presence of spurious noise.

Spurious Noise (from sky quartiles)
bandugriz
col. 1 1.03 0.98 1.22 1.40* 1.17
col. 2 0.93 1.17 1.29 1.38* 1.20
col. 3 1.05 1.19 1.22 1.40* 1.15
col. 4 0.95 1.18 1.28 1.34* 1.14
col. 5 1.03 1.19 1.17 1.31* 1.16
col. 6 1.01 1.15 1.23 1.35* 1.13

*Red entries are triggered by gain<0.7 or gain>1.3
except for chip u2 where the allowed range is 0.5-2.0
Spurious Noise plot
Note that bright stars cause single-field spikes which are, for
different bands, aligned in the field number. A temporal increase
in noise can be traced in the r-i-u-z-g order (2 fields shift).


There are 79 warnings for this run.