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Fibers 551-553 have spurious ELG redshifts in jura #2282

Open rongpu opened 2 weeks ago

rongpu commented 2 weeks ago

Re-posting what I posted on slack: Fibers 551-553 have a large number of spurious ELG redshifts in the jura reduction while the same tiles/spectra were fine in iron, which means there is something is wrong in the jura pipeline for these 3 fibers. Other tracers are also affected (with lower redshift success rates) albeit less dramatic.

The 3 fibers are visible ("cosmic-ray-like") in the ELG redshift distributions in jura (the Y1 subset): https://data.desi.lbl.gov/desi/users/rongpu/redshift_qa/y3_vs_y1_comparison/redshift_vs_fiber_elg_norm-jura_y1_subset.png and for comparison the same plot for the iron reduction: https://data.desi.lbl.gov/desi/users/rongpu/redshift_qa/y3_vs_y1_comparison/redshift_vs_fiber_elg_norm-iron.png

Below are example spectra for the 3 fibers:

Fiber 551 iron: FIBER_551_Iron The same spectra in jura: FIBER_551_Jura

Fiber 552 iron: FIBER_552_Iron The same spectra in jura: FIBER_552_Jura

Fiber 553 iron: FIBER_553_Iron The same spectra in jura: FIBER_553_Jura

rongpu commented 2 weeks ago

Here are the redrock redshifts vs time (LASTNIGHT) for the 3 fibers in iron: Unknown-2

The same 3 fibers in jura, and it appears that there are some periods of time (e.g., since December 2023) that are not affected by the issue: Unknown

And for reference 3 different fibers in jura: Unknown-1