Vera C. Rubin Observatory Scheduler Reports¶
The reports here are indexed below by night (dayobs) and instrument, with links to the following reports in different columns:
- prenight is a report describing a simulation of the night completed the previous morning. It includes basic statistics of the visits from the simulation (total science visits taken, etc.), a dynamic map of the visits, and tools for plotting various visit parameters against time. In addition, the report includes visualizationn of the reward functions that led to each FBS selection, which can be helpful in understading what led to the FBS selecting any given visit.
- multiprenight is a report that compares the nominal pre-night simulation described above and a few variants of it (e.g. simulating a late start). I includes figures like tables showing what fraction of visits that occur on one simulation also occur in other variants. (Those interested in more details for the variants can use the Times Square interface to generate prenight reports like the one described above for any of the simulations completed; see the index here: fill in the night you are interested in on the left, then select the desired sim from the resultant table.)
- nightsum is a scheduler-focused summary of the night, including basic paramaters of the night (twilight times, etc.), basic statistics for the visits of the night (e.g. number of science visits, mean gap times between visits, etc.), a tool for plotting assorted visit parameters against time, an interactive visit map, a handful of maps for different metrics such as photometric depth, a DDF cadence plot showing when DDFs have been observed over the past year and how deep each night's observations went, and a text table of exposures.
- compareprenight is a report that compares the set of science visits actually taken during a night with the pre-night simulations of that night, including plots in which parameter values are plotted over time, with simulation visits overplotted on completed visits, statistics on the numbers of visits each simulation has in common with the completed visits and the offsets in corresponding visit's start times, and a plot of completed vs. simulated visit start times for visits they have in common.
eff_time as reported in the statistics in the table is a measure of the photometric depth, as described in section 7 of DMTN-296, using reference m5 values from SMTN-002.