Hi Deborah

Could you insert your graphics in more common format and resend the doc? Both 
Open Office and Windows MS Word have problems opening it in my case (MSWord 
claims I need QuickTime and TIFF (LZW) decompression)

Thanks
Jacek


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> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Deborah Levine
> Sent: Friday, December 01, 2006 2:43 PM
> To: LSST Data Management
> Subject: Re: [LSST-data] DataAccWG telecon Fri Dec 01
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> Attached is my attempt at capturing what I thought I heard in 
> a format similar to Jacek's.  The Tables in the document are 
> not meant to literally represent the Source and Object 
> tables, but to collect a subset of information about each and 
> to show how they are logically related.  I hope this is clear 
> and not more confusing than things were before!  I'm 
> definitely not as good at PC art -- I added a diagram for a 
> second filter but it is pretty messy.
> 
> In terms of nomenclature... I additionally think we settled 
> on a few things and they are assumed in the attached 
> document. I THINK that:
> An Astronomical Object is a Star, Galaxy, etc.  In any 
> catalog release, the Objects represent best knowledge of what 
> the real Astronomical objects seen to date are.  In the case 
> of a confused source in release A that is resolved in release 
> B, The previous Object disappears and is replaced by two 
> different Objects.
> 
> A Source is a single filter, single difference epoch signal 
> extracted from a difference image, the smallest and most 
> elemental unit.
> 
> "Detection" has no structural database/catalog meaning, but 
> refers to any extracted flux at a cutoff SNR, whether it be 
> in a deep image or a difference image.
> 
> cheers,
> Deborah
> 
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