PSP QA for run 4291, rerun 157


Data reduced with photo v5_5_11

QA produced on Fri Nov 11 12:56:29 EST 2005 with photo version v5_5_11


Field Quality (nFields=501)
quality nOK nHOLE% HOLE
union 0 501 100.0*
col. 1 0 501 100.0*
col. 2 0 501 100.0*
col. 3 0 501 100.0*
col. 4 0 501 100.0*
col. 5 0 501 100.0*
col. 6 0 501 100.0*

*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 501 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 3.00 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 3.00 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 18.30 18.46 17.53 16.87 15.62
max 18.41 18.59 17.65 17.02 15.79
min 18.05** 18.24** 17.18** 16.47** 15.18**
*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 -0.61* 0.03 0.02 0.01
col. 2 -0.03 0.11 -0.01 -0.04 -0.03
col. 3 0.05 0.13 -0.02 0.00 -0.03
col. 4 -0.05 0.13 -0.00 0.01 -0.03
col. 5 0.07 0.15* -0.01 0.01 0.05
col. 6 -0.03 0.09 0.01 -0.00 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 1.02 0.83 1.05 1.16 1.07
col. 2 0.89 1.07 1.09 1.12 1.09
col. 3 1.04 1.12 1.06 1.18 1.07
col. 4 0.94 1.12 1.14 1.13 1.07
col. 5 1.01 1.13 1.04 1.09 1.07
col. 6 0.99 1.11 1.12 1.17 1.04

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 74 warnings for this run.