MS Word on my Mac was happy with it... I don't have a copy on my (PC)
Laptop here, can you email it back to me?  I'll see if I can fix it this
evening...

> 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
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> [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
>>
>> --
>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
>> Deborah Levine, Ph.D.                          (626)395-8567 (Office)
>> Operations Scientist                           (626)590-7500 (Mobile)
>> Spitzer Space Telescope Science Center         (626)432-7484 (FAX)
>> Mail Code 314-6, Caltech                       [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>
>> "Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler."
>> Albert Einstein
>>
>>
>>
>>
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