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We describe a versatile pipeline for processing the data collected by the Ultra-Violet Imaging Telescope (UVIT) on board Indian Multi-wavelength astronomical satellite AstroSat.The UVIT instrument carries out simultaneous astronomical…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-26 S. K. Ghosh , S. N. Tandon , S. K. Singh , D. S. Shelat , P. Tahlani , A. K. Singh , T. P. Srinivasan , P. Joseph , A. Devaraj , K. George , R. Mohan , J. Postma , C. S. Stalin

The VST Telescope Control Software logs continuously detailed information about the telescope and instrument operations. Commands, telemetries, errors, weather conditions and anything may be relevant for the instrument maintenance and the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-05 Salvatore Savarese , Pietro Schipani , Giulio Capasso , Mirko Colapietro , Sergio D'Orsi , Laurent Marty , Francesco Perrotta

We describe the software requirement and design specifications for all-sky panoramic astronomical pipelines. The described software aims to meet the specific needs of super-wide angle optics, and includes cosmic-ray hit rejection, image…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Lior Shamir , Robert J. Nemiroff , David O. Torrey , Wellesley E. Pereira

The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) is an ambitious astronomical survey with a similarly ambitious Data Management component. Data Management for LSST includes processing on both nightly and yearly cadences to generate transient…

In this contribution we present the FAST, which is a comprehensive software suite that aims to streamline and automatically manage the forecast of atmospheric and astroclimatic parameters (provided respectively by Meso-Nh and Astro-Meso-Nh…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-09 A. Turchi , E. Masciadri , L. Fini

PHOTOMETRYPIPELINE (PP) is an automated pipeline that produces calibrated photometry from imaging data through image registration, aperture photometry, photometric calibration, and target identification with only minimal human interaction.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-06 Michael Mommert

Variability Search Toolkit (VaST) is a software package designed to find variable objects in a series of sky images. It can be run from a script or interactively using its graphical interface. VaST relies on source list matching as opposed…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-12-19 Kirill V. Sokolovsky , Alexandr A. Lebedev

We present a new spectroscopic pipeline designed to analyse large numbers of hot massive stars homogeneously. The pipeline has been developed to utilise large grids of FASTWIND non-LTE, line blanketed models in which spherical geometry is…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-31 PA Crowther , JM Bestenlehner

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…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-26 Minxuan Cai , Zelin Xu , Lulu Fan , Zhen Wan , Binyang Liu , Xu Kong , Weida Hu , Lei Hu , Qing-feng Zhu , Guoliang Li , Jie Lin , Min Fang , Ji-an Jiang , Yongquan Xue , Xianzhong Zhen , Tinggui Wang

The past few decades have seen the burgeoning of wide field, high cadence surveys, the most formidable of which will be the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) to be conducted by the Vera C. Rubin Observatory. So new is the field of…

In this paper we describe the main features of the software package named FITSH, intended to provide a standalone environment for analysis of data acquired by imaging astronomical detectors. The package provides utilities both for the full…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 András Pál

We present a convenient, all-in-one framework for the scientific analysis of fully reduced, (integral-field) spectroscopic data. The GIST pipeline (Galaxy IFU Spectroscopy Tool) is entirely written in Python3 and conducts all steps from the…

We have designed and implemented a novel way to process wide-field astronomical data within a distributed environment of hardware resources and humanpower. The system is characterized by integration of archiving, calibration, and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2011-10-17 J. P. McFarland , G. Verdoes-Kleijn , G. Sikkema , E. M. Helmich , D. R. Boxhoorn , E. A. Valentijn

A program that we call the QUEST Data Processing Software Pipeline has been written to process the large volumes of data produced by the QUEST camera on the Samuel Oschin Schmidt Telescope at the Palomar Observatory. The program carries out…

In this paper we show how advanced visualization tools can help the researcher in investigating and extracting information from data. The focus is on VisIVO, a novel open source graphics application, which blends high performance…

We present the VVV-SkZ_pipeline, a DAOPHOT-based photometric pipeline, created to perform PSF-fitting photometry of "VISTA Variables in the V\'ia L\'actea" (VVV) ESO Public Survey data. The pipeline replaces the user avoiding repetitive…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2013-03-11 Francesco Mauro , Christian Moni Bidin , André-Nicolas Chené , Doug Geisler , Javier Alonso-García , Jura Borissova , Giovanni Carraro

In this paper, we describe the optical imaging data processing pipeline developed for the Subaru Telescope's Hyper Suprime-Cam (HSC) instrument. The HSC Pipeline builds on the prototype pipeline being developed by the Large Synoptic Survey…

In this paper we describe an unmanned aerial system equipped with a thermal-infrared camera and software pipeline that we have developed to monitor animal populations for conservation purposes. Taking a multi-disciplinary approach to tackle…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-04-05 S. N. Longmore , R. P. Collins , S. Pfeifer , S. E. Fox , M. Mulero-Pazmany , F. Bezombes , A. Goodwind , M. de Juan Ovelar , J. H. Knapen , S. A. Wich

The VISIONS public survey provides large-scale, multiepoch imaging of five nearby star-forming regions at subarcsecond resolution in the near-infrared. All data collected within the program and provided by the European Southern Observatory…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-17 Stefan Meingast , Hervé Bouy , Verena Fürnkranz , David Hernandez , Alena Rottensteiner , Erik Brändli

The Legacy Survey of Space and Time, operated by the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, is a 10-year astronomical survey due to start operations in 2022 that will image half the sky every three nights. LSST will produce ~20TB of raw data per night…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-13 Dino Bektesevic , Hsin-Fang Chiang , Kian-Tat Lim , Todd L. Miller , Greg Thain , Tim Jenness , James Bosch , Andrei Salnikov , Andrew Connolly
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