Interpretation of the bitmask column

The ccds- and survey- files described on the DR4 files page contain a column bitmask, which is defined as:

Bit

Meaning

0001

this exposure is flagged in the bad_expid file

0010

a zeropoint solution was not computed for these exposures, and so the ccdname disagrees with the hdu number

0100

these ccds had outlying values for astrometric or photometric offsets (\(\sqrt(\) ccdrarms \(^2 +\) ccddecrms \(^2) > 0.1\) OR ccdphrms \(> 0.2\))

The CCDs used by legacypipe can be determined via:

photometric == True AND bitmask == 0

Note that photometric, ccdrarms, ccddecrms and ccdphrms are all columns in the ccds- and survey- files described on the DR4 files page.