1. PACS ICC Meeting #41 PACS Photometer
Open calibration and software issues until end-of-He
Markus Nielbock (MPIA Heidelberg)
Markus Nielbock (MPIA) – PACS-P open issues until end-of-He
ESAC, 7th November 2012

2. PACS Photometer – Open issues until end-of-He Calibration
Most open calibration issues to be addressed during POPS
Update of prime standard models
Correction for temperature/emissivity/straylight/drift effects
Tuning of flux calibration to chopped observations
Pointing jitter correction → improvement of PSF shape / EEF
Consolidation of current flux calibration (stability, SSO models)
FPG update – further observations needed?
→ final assessment not possible without pointing jitter correction
Investigate impact of even-odd scan leg issue on PSF width
Progress on extended emission issues
Markus Nielbock (MPIA) – PACS-P open issues until end-of-He

3. PACS Photometer – Open issues until end-of-He Software
Slicing of scan map data:
To be removed from SPG
Remove Level 0.5 step (also avoids duplication of task execution)
Offer optional slicing for IA processing (to be documented)
→ improves performance if processing is parallelised (IPAC)
Error maps:
photCoverage2Noise - not directly applicable to Parallel Mode observations
Mad Map
Optimisation of preprocessing for Mad Map
Combination of more than only two OBSIDs for L2.5
→ improved S/N feeds back into better HPF masks for L1 → L2 processing
Consistent transition from “2nd order deglitching” to “MapDeglitch” (mapindex)
Progress on robust point source extraction and PSF fitting / photometry
Clean-up of (ipipe) scripts
Is the implementation of a Scanamorphos-like processing in HIPE still realistic?
→ How much FTEs will be available for developing/maintaining PACS-P code?
Markus Nielbock (MPIA) – PACS-P open issues until end-of-He