The Wide Field Survey Telescope (WFST) is a dedicated photometric surveying facility built jointly by the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) and the Purple Mountain Observatory (PMO). Since many of its scientific objectives rely on near-real-time data for effective analysis, prompt processing of WFST images is of great significance. To meet this need, we adapted the Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) science pipelines to handle the data collected by WFST. This paper presents the complete data processing workflow, from ingestion of raw images to the distribution of alerts, and details the primary data products generated by our pipeline. Researchers using data processed by this pipeline can refer to this document to fully understand the data processing procedures.
@article{arxiv.2501.15018,
title = {The 2.5-meter Wide Field Survey Telescope Real-time Data Processing Pipeline I: From raw data to alert distribution},
author = {Minxuan Cai and Zelin Xu and Lulu Fan and Zhen Wan and Binyang Liu and Xu Kong and Weida Hu and Lei Hu and Qing-feng Zhu and Guoliang Li and Jie Lin and Min Fang and Ji-an Jiang and Yongquan Xue and Xianzhong Zhen and Tinggui Wang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2501.15018},
year = {2026}
}