Samstag, 22. Juli 2017

What I learned about ADQL queries at the Gaia sprint; WD binaries

Morgan F. ran some tutorial with me on ADQL etc..

the idea is to find WD wide binary candidates that commove with TGAS
stars within 300 pc. Go to TOPCAT;  preload a table of TGAS stars within
300 pc; activate that table and then go to TAP queries; select GAVO; select gps1; 

Then:

SELECT
   TOP 10000  *
   FROM gps1.main AS db
   JOIN TAP_UPLOAD.t2 AS tc
   ON 1= CONTAINS(POINT('ICRS', db.ra, db.dec),
                 CIRCLE('ICRS', tc.ra, tc.dec, (10.3*tc.parallax/3600.))) 
   WHERE  db.e_pmra * 3.6e6 < 5. AND db.e_pmde * 3.6e6 < 5.
AND
                 SQRT( (power(tc.pmra-db.pmra*3.6e6 , 2) + power(tc.pmdec-db.pmde*3.6e6 , 2)) /

                 (power(db.e_pmra* 3.6e6,2)+power(db.e_pmde* 3.6e6,2)) ) < 5

Morgan's version of that query yielded nice results.

Mittwoch, 5. Juli 2017

speeding up iCannon

In a thesis meeting with Christina, Joe brought up the following idea: currently we fit the pixel fluxes (and their variance) in the Cannon, why do we not fit the projection of the data onto a set of principal components? That would be far fewer data points?