FgcmBuildStarsTableTask

FgcmBuildStarsTableTask finds all the single-visit sources in a repository (or a subset based on command-line parameters) from sourceTable_visit parquet tables and extracts all the potential photometric calibration stars for input into fgcm. This task additionally uses fgcm to match star observations into unique stars, and performs as much cleaning of the input catalog as possible.

This is the second task in a typical fgcmcal processing chain. The first is FgcmMakeLutTask, the third is FgcmFitCycleTask, and the fourth is FgcmOutputProductsTask. This task is still usable and tested, but the replacement FgcmBuildFromIsolatedStarsTask is preferred for modern pipelines.

Processing summary

FgcmBuildStarsTableTask runs this sequence of operations:

  1. Finds unique visits and collates visit metadata, including exposure time, pointing, typical psf size, background level.

  2. Reads in all sources, selecting good stars according to the chosen source selector.

  3. Matches sources internally across bands to get a unique multi-band list of possible calibration stars.

  4. Matches possible calibration stars to a reference catalog.

  5. All results are stored in the output repo fgcm-process directory.

Python API summary

from lsst.fgcmcal.fgcmBuildStarsTable import FgcmBuildStarsTableTask
classFgcmBuildStarsTableTask(initInputs=None, **kwargs)

Build stars for the FGCM global calibration, using sourceTable_visit catalogs...

attributeconfig

Access configuration fields and retargetable subtasks.

methodrun(**kwargs)

Run task algorithm on in-memory data...

See also

See the FgcmBuildStarsTableTask API reference for complete details.

Retargetable subtasks

fgcmLoadReferenceCatalog

Default

lsst.fgcmcal.fgcmLoadReferenceCatalog.FgcmLoadReferenceCatalogTask

Field type

ConfigurableField

FGCM reference object loader

sourceSelector

Default
'science'
Field type

Single-selection RegistryField

Choices
'science'

lsst.meas.algorithms.sourceSelector.ScienceSourceSelectorTask

'references'

lsst.meas.algorithms.sourceSelector.ReferenceSourceSelectorTask

'null'

lsst.meas.algorithms.sourceSelector.NullSourceSelectorTask

'objectSize'

lsst.meas.algorithms.objectSizeStarSelector.ObjectSizeStarSelectorTask

'flagged'

lsst.meas.algorithms.flaggedSourceSelector.FlaggedSourceSelectorTask

'astrometry'

lsst.meas.algorithms.astrometrySourceSelector.AstrometrySourceSelectorTask

'matcher'

lsst.meas.algorithms.matcherSourceSelector.MatcherSourceSelectorTask

How to select sources

Configuration fields

apertureInnerInstFluxField

Default
'base_CircularApertureFlux_12_0_instFlux'
Field type

str Field

Full name of instFlux field that contains inner aperture flux for aperture correction proxy

apertureOuterInstFluxField

Default
'base_CircularApertureFlux_17_0_instFlux'
Field type

str Field

Full name of instFlux field that contains outer aperture flux for aperture correction proxy

coarseNside

Default
8
Field type

int Field

Healpix coarse Nside for partitioning matches

connections

Data type

lsst.pipe.base.config.FgcmBuildStarsTableConfigConnections

Field type

ConfigField

Configurations describing the connections of the PipelineTask to datatypes

densityCutMaxPerPixel

Default
1000
Field type

int Field

Density cut number of stars per pixel

densityCutNside

Default
128
Field type

int Field

Density cut healpix nside

doApplyWcsJacobian

Default
True
Field type

bool Field

Apply the jacobian of the WCS to the star observations prior to fit?

doModelErrorsWithBackground

Default
True
Field type

bool Field

Model flux errors with background term?

doReferenceMatches

Default
True
Field type

bool Field

Match reference catalog as additional constraint on calibration

doSubtractLocalBackground

Default
False
Field type

bool Field

Subtract the local background before performing calibration? This is only supported for circular aperture calibration fluxes.

instFluxField

Default
'slot_CalibFlux_instFlux'
Field type

str Field

Faull name of the source instFlux field to use, including ‘instFlux’. The associated flag will be implicitly included in badFlags

isolationRadius

Default
2.0
Field type

float Field

Isolation radius (arcseconds)

localBackgroundFluxField

Default
'base_LocalBackground_instFlux'
Field type

str Field

Full name of the local background instFlux field to use.

matchNside

Default
4096
Field type

int Field

Healpix Nside for matching

matchRadius

Default
1.0
Field type

float Field

Match radius (arcseconds)

minPerBand

Default
2
Field type

int Field

Minimum observations per band

nVisitsPerCheckpoint

Default
500
Field type

int Field

Number of visits read between checkpoints

physicalFilterMap

Default
{}
Field type

DictField

Key type

str

Value type

str

Mapping from ‘physicalFilter’ to band.

primaryBands

Default
None
Field type

str ListField

Bands for ‘primary’ star matches. A star must be observed in one of these bands to be considered as a calibration star.

psfCandidateName

Default
'calib_psf_candidate'
Field type

str Field

Name of field with psf candidate flag for propagation

randomSeed

Default
None
Field type

int Field (optional)

Random seed for high density down-sampling.

referenceCCD

Default
40
Field type

int Field

Reference CCD for checking PSF and background

requiredBands

Default
()
Field type

str ListField

Bands required for each star

saveLogOutput

Default
True
Field type

bool Field

Flag to enable/disable saving of log output for a task, enabled by default.