Changing QSO Catalog Inputs

I'm trying to figure out how to modify the inputs (currently SDSS DR5 quasars with good photometry) into Joe's Monte Carlo. Here is what I have figured out so far (all the below files are on riemann):

hiz_kde_numerator.pro ;main program to generate the QSO Catalog
(calls) →
qso_fakephoto.pro ;generates simulated redshift and i-magnitude based on luminosity function and DR5 inputs
(calls) →
qso_photosamp.pro ;This generates the training set photometry
(calls) →
sdss_read_data.pro ;This reads in SDSS data it currently has the following 'DR5' call
qsos = sdss_read_data('DR5', Z_MIN = Z_MIN, Z_MAX = Z_MAX)

Here is a color-color redshift temperature plot of these DR5 QSOs:


I'm going to try to add in the BOSS QSOs with co-added photometry, especially in the redshift range z > 2.0 where we seem to be missing QSOs:


I found that there are 1,973 BOSS quasars that have a redshift above 2.0 for which we also have coadded photometry. Here they are plotted:


While it is a little more filled in in the u-g = 0.8 space, comparing it to all the BOSS quasars (regardless of how good their photometry is) below:

BOSS Data Kickoff Meeting

Today there was a meeting at LBNL to introduce people to the BOSS Data pipeline.
Some useful links (appologies, those not part of the SDSS collaboration wont be able to view these without membership):
Photometry information: http://www.sdss.org/dr7/algorithms/photometry.html
Photometry will be essentially the same as SDSS-II

Flags information: http://www.sdss.org/dr7/products/catalogs/flags.html
It was recommended that I use the new reduction on riemann instead of those on the CAS. Need to get David/Eric to help me to get a catalog of objects to run the reconstruction code on that have good photo-zs.
QSO Truth Table: https://trac.sdss3.org/wiki/BOSS/data_access
https://trac.sdss3.org/attachment/wiki/BOSS/target/Commissioning/
Need to see how well likelihood did in comparison to other methods for QSO target selection
View Spectroscopic Data on Riemann
Put these commands in your .bashrc file:
export IDLUTILS_DIR=$HOME/idlutils
export IDLSPEC2D_DIR=$HOME/idlspec2d
export IDL_PATH=+{$IDLUTILS_DIR/pro}:+{$IDLSPEC2D_DIR/pro}:{$IDL_PATH}
export SPECTRO_DATA=/clusterfs/riemann/raid006/bossredux/v5_4_1

In IDL, use "plotspec" to display spectra. For example:
IDL> plotspec, 3552, mjd=55098, 572