Guide star statistics

The mica.stats.guide_stats module includes code to gather acquisition and guide statistics data for each observation and return those data to the user.

To get the whole guide stats data table:

>>> from mica.stats.guide_stats import get_stats
>>> stats = get_stats()
>>> stats[(stats['obsid'] == 5438) & (stats['slot'] == 3)][0]['dy_std']
0.18406899294435713

The hdf5 in-kernel searches may be faster working with the table directly for some operations.

Data table fields

The guide statistics data table contains the following columns:

Column Description
obsid obsid
obi observation interval number
kalman_tstart Kalman transition tstart from kadi event
kalman_datestart Kalman transition datestart from kadi event
kalman_datestop Kalman transition datestop from kadi event
revision revision string representing the software version
slot ACA readout slot id
idx starcheck star catalog index id
type star catalog type (BOT or GUI)
yang commanded y-angle position for center of readout window (arcsec)
zang commanded z-angle position for center of readout window (arcsec)
sz image readout window size
mag catalog MAG_ACA of acquisition star
n_samples number of telemetry samples in Kalman (only samples with good telem quality)
n_track number of samples with AOACFCT == ‘TRAK’
f_track fraction of samples with AOACFCT == ‘TRAK’
f_racq fraction samples AOACFCT == ‘RACQ’
f_srch fraction samples AOACFCT == ‘SRCH’
f_none fraction samples AOACFCT == ‘NONE’
n_kalman number of tracked samples with no (modern) bad status flags set (no IR, SP)
no_track fraction of no track samples (n_samples - n_track / n_samples)
f_within_0.3 fraction of tracked samples with 0.3 arcsecs of expected position
f_within_1 fraction of tracked samples with 1 arcsecs of expected position
f_within_5 fraction of tracked samples with 5 arcsecs of expected position
f_outside_5 fraction of tracked samples outside 5 arcsecs of expected position
f_obc_bad fraction of tracked samples with modern bad status flags set (IR, SP)
f_common_col fraction of tracked samples with AOACICC flag set to ERR
f_quad_bound fraction of tracked samples with AOACIQB flag set to ERR
f_sat_pix fraction of tracked samples with AOACISP flag set to ERR
f_def_pix fraction of tracked samples with AOACIDP flag set to ERR
f_ion_rad fraction of tracked samples with AOACIIR flag set to ERR
f_mult_star fraction of tracked samples with AOACIMS flag set to ERR
aoacmag_min min magnitude over interval
aoacmag_mean mean magnitude over interval
aoacmag_max max magnitude over interval
aoacmag_std std of magnitude over interval
aoacyan_mean mean AOACYAN
aoaczan_mean mean AOACZAN
dy_min dy min (see notes on residuals)
dy_mean dy max (see notes on residuals)
dy_std dy std (see notes on residuals)
dy_max dy max (see notes on residuals)
dz_min dz min (see notes on residuals)
dz_mean dz max (see notes on residuals)
dz_std dz std (see notes on residuals)
dz_max dz max (see notes on residuals)
dr_min dr min (see notes on residuals)
dr_mean dr max (see notes on residuals)
dr_std dr std (see notes on residuals)
dr_5th dr 5th percentile value
dr_95th dr 95th percentile value
dr_max dr max (see notes on residuals)
n_track_interv number of intervals of continuous track
n_long_track_interv number of intervals of continuous track with > 60 samples
n_long_no_track_interv number of intervals of continuous loss of track with > 60 samples
n_racq_interv number of intervals during Kalman when RACQ was set for the slot
n_srch_interv number of intervals during Kalman when SRCH was set
agasc_id AGASC (catalog) id
color1 AGASC COLOR1, estimated B-V color
ra AGASC right ascension (degrees)
dec AGASC declination (degrees)
epoch AGASC EPOCH
pm_ra AGASC PM_RA, proper motion in ra (milli-arcsec/year)
pm_dec AGASC PM_DEC, proper motion in dec (milli-arsec/year)
var AGASC VAR, known or suspected variable star
pos_err AGASC POS_ERR, position error (milli-arcsec)
mag_aca AGASC MAG_ACA, ACA mag
mag_err AGASC MAG_ERR, (to be fixed, this should have been MAG_ACA_ERR)
mag_band AGASC MAG_BAND, integer code for spectral band
pos_catid AGASC POS_CATID, integer code for position catalog
aspq1 AGASC ASPQ1, integer spoiler code
aspq2 AGASC ASPQ2, integer proper motion flag
aspq3 AGASC ASPQ3, integer dist in 100m-arcsec to nearest Tycho2 star
acqq1 AGASC ACQQ1, mag diff to brightest star within 53.3” (0.01mags)
acqq2 AGASC ACQQ2, mag diff to brightest star within 107” (0.01mags)
acqq4 AGASC ACQQ4, mag diff to brightest star within 267.5” (0.01mags)
n100_warm_frac estimated n100 fraction of CCD pixels for this observation
tccd_mean mean CCD temperature over Kalman interval
tccd_max max CCD temperature over Kalman interval
known_bad ignore this star in standard processing (boolean)
bad_comment reason to ignore a “known_bad” star

Notes on residuals:

  • The dy, dz, dr values are residuals calculated by subtracting the expected star position from the telemetered star position (AOACYAN AOACZAN).
  • The expected star position has been calculated using the onboard estimated attitude (AOATTQT*) and the AGASC RA/Dec for the commanded star.
  • dr is defined as sqrt(dy**2 + dz**2)

Processing

For each observation, after the observation has run and telemetry is available, the guide stats process does the following:

  • Fetches the AGASC information for each star in the catalog
  • Fetches the PCAD data for the Kalman interval
  • For each guide star in the Kalman interval star calculates statistics on metrics for that star over the interval.

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