Marshall : feature request and bug list

The required features for each of the Marshall aims were last re-ordered to reflect their order of priority on 2013-05-07.

Note "Desirements" = Low priority features that may or may not get implemented.

Aims, Status & Feature requests

Aim 1:

Eliminating the need to manually trawl the internet and mailing lists for new transient alerts by **auto ingesting and cross correlating transient source metadata** from across the web.

Status:

Automated Ingests

• • LSQ 

  • CRTS (SSS, MLS, CSS) 

  • OGLE 

  • PS1 

  • ATels (names and coordinates) 

Requirements:

Automated Ingests

• • SNHunt

  • Bright SN List 

  • CBETs 

  • TOCP 

  • MASTER 

  • SkyMapper 

  • Atels that have no associated object in marshall? 

1. In-house Machine Classification - use QUB Transient Classifier to add valuable contextual information 

2. RA & DEC Search: 

3. Add postage stamps from PS1 (better coverage than SDSS) to show pre-discovery imaging 

4. Tell user when a duplicate is entered (after the form is submitted) 

5. Links to Vizier, NED etc 

Desirements:

1. A form for 'amateur' astronomers to submit their discoveries 

2. Confirmation of classification of AA objects - credit given to the first discoverer 

Aim 2:

Provide an intuitive, simple workflow for moving transient sources around various lists, each representing a phase of the pessto observational campaign for the objects.

Status:

• Workflow now fairly mature with fewer reports of bugs 

• Users now familiar and comfortable with the workflow 

Requirements:

1. Labels show the associated lists an individual object can be found in 

2. A label showing the PI(s) for an individual object 

3. Firefox / Safari compatibility 

4. Responsive design for those using the pages on smaller screens / low resolution screens (e.g. at La Silla) 

5. Sort on columns (mag, last obs, first obs, RA, object age) 

6. Display the history of an object - when it was ingested, updated, moved, classified, observed etc. 

Desirements:

1. A simple table view to give a clearer summary view of each list 

2. Drag and drop capability to move a ticket into another list 

3. A crumb trail link that will explode all associated object URLs into new background tabs of your browser 

4. include mailto: links on each object ticket to request time on other partner survey telescopes (SMARTS, WiFeS, Gemini etc) 

Aim 3:

Provide the tools and functions required to add and edit various forms of metadata to each object, including text comments, images and FITS files.

Status:

• comments included and bugs fixed 

Requirements:

1. Make the various parameters and object attributes editable within the web-interface (i.e. no need to email Dave) 

2. Upload form / drag and drop capability for each object ticket to included FITS files and images and other attachments to individual objects 

3. A top level status comment for PIs to updated 

Desirements:

Aim 4:

Provide automated helper tools for observers including a finder chart builder, observeability plots, priority lists, OBs, PDF views, plain text tables etc.

Status:

• Ability to sort is present but awkward 

• Finder charts manually linked from the wiki 

Requirements:

Priority Scheduler

• • Develop a priority scheduler for the followup and classification target lists 

  • Implement Andrea’s automated ranking score given for each object - a traffic light system to quickly tell good candidates from semi-rubbish ones. 

  • The ability to manually change the priority (overriding APs ranking system) of the object shall be included. 

  • constantly update object priorities (that change with time: younger = better) and cadence of observations for each object, rescheduling targets based on this information. 

1. Auto-created finder charts, with blind off-sets etc 

2. PDF export 

3. Plain text view/export of the various object lists 

4. Ability to auto generated ATel text based on objects selected. 

5. Auto-generate the OBs for each object 

6. Fix SDSS image issue (have server save the images and browsers cache) 

7. Make lightcurve plots - either our own or pull in jpegs linked from html pages. data taken from feeder surveys & a form for pessto members to add extra points 

8. Setup automated replication of the Marshall DB, Webpages and data with Trieste. 

Desirements:

1. Automate the ESO required end-of-run excel observer reports 

2. Sky map of targets - objects hyperlinked to entry in html table. 

Aim 5:

Act as a mediator between the NTT Pipeline, the IA2 archive and WiseRep.

Status:

• Marshall-IA2 MySQL Replication functioning 

• Code to ingest and associate NTT Pipeline output with PESSTO objects 50% complete 

Requirements:

1. write a script to automatically download data from eso 

2. automate delivery of fast/final spectra to IA2 and WiseRep 

3. provide links from the Marshall tickets to images on WiseRep and data in IA2 

Desirements:

• produce an automated nightlog from the headers of the raw fits files downloaded from ESO 

Aim 6:

Provide a birds-eye view statistics pages of the pessto objects database including rates and plots.

Status:

• Some code in place for basic stats 

Requirements:

1. provide auto-updating plots of stats and rates 

2. provide quick download links for tarball of plots and ascii files of stats for presentations etc 

Desirements:

Bug List

• Absolute mag does not appear in either "Queued for ATEL" or "Classified" pages (for hosts where this is available)

• Very minor: Added LSQ12emi, added to observation targets, classified, selected "ATEL released". At some point, the target picked up a second alias. Currently in classified list.

• Aliases (AKA) do not appear under the primary when a duplicate is entered (so user has no idea where their object went)

• Can't see older comments for a target if they are longer than the height of the target's "box" in the Marshall (i.e. no scrolling option for comments).

Recently Fixed Bugs

• 20121123, 10:28 AM : Semi-colon in comment will truncate comment at that point!