From neese@psi.edu Tue Jun 6 14:20:34 2000 Received: from boojum.psi.edu (boojum.psi.edu [192.102.219.11]) by earth.astro.umd.edu (8.9.1a/8.9.1/WLS8.9) with ESMTP id OAA20618; Tue, 6 Jun 2000 14:20:33 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from neese@localhost) by boojum.psi.edu (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.1) id LAA14257; Tue, 6 Jun 2000 11:20:26 -0700 (MST) Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2000 11:20:26 -0700 (MST) From: Carol Neese Message-Id: <200006061820.LAA14257@boojum.psi.edu> To: Tyler.L.Brown@jpl.nasa.gov, dbritt@utk.edu, drd@psi.edu, grayzeck@astro.umd.edu, ma@astro.umd.edu, mcfadden@astro.umd.edu, msykes@as.arizona.edu, neese@psi.edu, raugh@astro.umd.edu, tholen@ifa.hawaii.edu Subject: liens on non-near data sets Content-Length: 7096 X-Lines: 183 Status: RO Liens from June 1, 2000 PDS asteroids data set review. Non-NEAR data sets. June 5, 2000. Carol will resolve the liens except where otherwise noted. I. TNO data set: 1. Document what kind of filters were used (Johnson etc.) in the data set catalog. 2. Change the parameter "ERROR" to something more informative such as "STANDARD DEVIATION". Check to make sure what kind of error is reported and document this in the label description. 3. Change data format to F6.3 to allow for more significant figures and minus signs. 4. Swap the V-K and V-H columns 5. Add a column with the date of observations. II. NEO Lightcurves It was decided to wait a year before archiving this data set, as it may become obsolete with the ingestion of the APC 4th update next year. In the meantime, make the data set available to users on-line. This can be done immediately. The reviewers suggested some changes to the files which Carol will address and then provide a revised version for the web site. III. Radar Shape Models It was decided to wait a year before archiving this data set. The reviewers recommended converting it to the same format as the optical shape models for archiving, while also providing the current format as a service to users who would like to use it for input to the available visualization software. The current version can be posted as it is immediately. Reviewers suggested some modifications to the files which Carol will address and then provide a revised version for posting. Also provide a link on the SBN data site to the visualization software. IV. Larson FTS Spectra Reviewers recommend that we fail this data set as an "archival-quality" data set, but "safe" it rather than discarding it. 1. List in the data set catalog the reasons for failing the data set for archiving. Rewrite the catalog description to reflect the review comments. 2. Include in the safing archive Josh's notes on how he did the extraction. V. Optical Shape Models (Update) 1. Tyler will submit an email list of small formatting errors which need to be corrected. VI. Asteroid Lightcurve Parameters (Update): No liens specific to this data set. VII. Asteroid Radar Detections (Update): No liens specific to this data set. Asteroid Polarimetric Database (Update): No liens specific to this data set. VIII. Asteroid Discovery Circumstances: No liens specific to this data set. IX. Asteroid Absolute Magnitudes (Update): 1. Update the entry for Albert. X. All data sets: 1. Update the peer review date in both the data set catalogs and the labels. ------------------------------- Non-lien items for the 2000 non-NEAR data sets: Next year, put our address on the front of the review booklet so participants can find us. Reviewers suggest we put something on the SBN data site telling users of the data how to acknowlege PDS in their published papers. Can we identify "godfathers" for the dynamic data sets, a scientist familiar with the data who could take care of keeping them up to date? Anne and Tyler will come up with a TNO target object; then we can have the more appropriate "target = TNO" for the TNO data set. They also offered to come up with a generic instrument cat and instrument host cat for cases where many instruments were used and/or the identity of the specific instrument is not relevant to understanding the data. Reviewers would like to see plotting capability for lightcurves and spectra available on the SBN data site. Anne thinks it would take a Java programmer "less than a day" do do it. NEO lightcurves data set: Although it won't be ingested this year, there were some changes the reviewers would like to see in the informally-provided data set. See if we can get versions that have non-light-time-corrected times and non-distance-and-phase-corrected magnitudes. If we can't get non-corrected magnitudes it should be better documented, e.g. what slope parameter was used. Also, use julian date rather than modified julian date. Can we get error values for the individual measurements? Change "color band" to "filter". Radar shape models: This one will also not be ingested this year. We decided to provide the current format as a service, without formally ingesting it, and next year also introduce a version for formal archiving which is in the same format as the optical shape models. The current format is the input format for existing visualization software, POVray. The following suggestions were made to improve the existing data set. Provide a link to POVray on the SBN data site. Find out how the axes are oriented and what the origin is, and document this in the catalog file. Add descriptions to the column headings of the data labels to clarify what they are. If we can get the POVray source code we can consider providing that. The data set catalogs of the two shape model data sets refer to one another. Cite the data set id's as well. Anne will write a program to convert the existing format to the format used for the optical shape models. Would it be possible to provide visualization tools to users for the optical shape models? Anne agreed to investigate the possiblity of getting Peter Thomas' IDL routines and have a Java routine written to visualize the models on line. For the remaining Larson FTS data, SBN would like to have the comet spectra extracted for possible archiving. For the rest, ask the other nodes if they are interested in the remaining data and if they can pay for it, Josh can extract the data for them. Offer good only through this year. PDS/SBN contribute a chapter to Asteroid III book about data archiving. Call for chapter ideas is due June 23. Carol will coordinate the effort. Suggestions for future data sets: Small bodies maps from P.J. Stooke in Ontario. Carol will look into it. Definitions for the asteroid taxonomic classifications from Dave's thesis. Dave will provide it to Carol, Carol will prepare it for review, and we will do an email review this summer. Bus taxonomy. Dave has it but Bus wants to publish first. Then Dave will add it to the taxonomy data set. Dave will work on getting the spectra as well. Eliot Young Pluto data. Dave is working on getting it. Dave Dunham's summary of asteroid occultation results. Dave will pursue it. Hammergren's NEO spectra. Don will email him to see if it's published yet and if/when we can archive them. Whitely NEO colors. Dave will get it. (Needs to be published first.) ISO asteroid data. Mark will look into it. Asteroid maps from AO, and from HST. Mark will look into it. Measured densities for asteroids. Dan Britt has compiled a file which he is willing to provide for archiving. Dan will be the godfather of it. We can put it together quickly and have an email review over the summer. Radar images and spectra from Ostro. We need to get further funding for the data node to do this. First find out from Ostro how much money will be needed to do it, then ask for the money. Don will email Steve about it. -------------------------------