We present Easylife, the software environment developed within the framework of the VIPERS project for automatic data reduction and survey handling. Easylife is a comprehensive system to automatically reduce spectroscopic data, to monitor the survey advancement at all stages, to distribute data within the collaboration and to release data to the whole community. It is based on the OPTICON founded project FASE, and inherits the FASE capabilities of modularity and scalability. After describing the software architecture, the main reduction and quality control features and the main services made available, we show its performance in terms of reliability of results. We also show how it can be ported to other projects having different characteristics.
@article{arxiv.1210.4737,
title = {Easylife: the data reduction and survey handling system for VIPERS},
author = {B. Garilli and L. Paioro and M. Scodeggio and P. Franzetti and M. Fumana and L. Guzzo},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1210.4737},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
pre-print, 17 pages, 4 figures, accepted for publication in Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific