Robust Automated Photometry Pipeline for Blurred Images
Abstract
The primary task of the 1.26-m telescope jointly operated by the National Astronomical Observatory and Guangzhou University is photometric observations of the g, r, and i bands. A data processing pipeline system was set up with mature software packages, such as IRAF, SExtractor, and SCAMP, to process approximately 5 GB of observational data automatically every day. However, the success ratio was significantly reduced when processing blurred images owing to telescope tracking error; this, in turn, significantly constrained the output of the telescope. We propose a robust automated photometric pipeline (RAPP) software that can correctly process blurred images. Two key techniques are presented in detail: blurred star enhancement and robust image matching. A series of tests proved that RAPP not only achieves a photometric success ratio and precision comparable to those of IRAF but also significantly reduces the data processing load and improves the efficiency.
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@article{arxiv.2004.14562,
title = {Robust Automated Photometry Pipeline for Blurred Images},
author = {Weirong Huang and Zhou Xie and Wenjie Zhong and Ying Mei and Hui Deng and Yingbo Liu and Feng Wang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2004.14562},
year = {2020}
}