Meeting with Helmut to discuss DR2

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Will do so in next few weeks.

I met Helmut a few times at the Euclid Consortium Meeting in Rome. He has all the mosaics and detection catalogues for SHARKs DR2, produced using the pipeline that Aurelia and I worked on. However he would like a source catalogue that removes false detections around bright stars and gives a primary secondary flag in overlap regions. I said we could do the second job easily after creating a DB using the mosaics and detection catalogues (there may be some complications there, but not too bad). We could then do an ESO release. However adding code to do the flagging around bright stars is not something we have time for.

Helmut did have a postdoc working on this, who was also at the meeting. I spoke to both of them - their relationship has broken down, probably irretrievably. She said that the work is ready, but he has not made time to look through it and sign off on it. He said that he doesn't think she should have got a PhD and was trying something overly complicated. He is hoping to have someone else to do some work in a few months time, but it sounds like someone else who is probably working on a different project, so I am a little sceptical about how much effort there will be - this guy is working for Michal Michalowski in Poland. Michal has been visiting so it might be worth getting his view. My feeling is that Helmut doesn't have money to hire someone himself, and his relationships with others is often fractious and it will just lead to more delays. I have tried to pin him down to getting out a DR2 release with the current data, and he almost said yes, but then seemed to convince himself that it would be better to wait until Michal's post doc visits him.

He also hopes to use data from an ESO large project, which is beyond is proprietary period, and the PI has passed away, so I don't think anyone is really doing much with it. While I think it is fine to let him use it, it could end up delaying things.

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• Helmut struggling with staffing.
• Nick will speak to him whilst in Rome in w/b 17/JUN/24

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12/JUL/24 @wfastrononomer reported

• spoke to Helmut in Rome - who wants DR2 out soon
• Artefacts round bright stars is still an issue for Helmut. He does not want to send data until this is sorted.
• Helmut says post-doc starts in Sept who may help with this, also wants some other data included.
• Nick will push him to send available data (eg mosaics) now anyway and will sort out catalogues later.
• It will be easier to sort these once they are in the archive.