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The Rubin Observatory's Data Butler is designed to allow data file location and file formats to be abstracted away from the people writing the science pipeline algorithms. The Butler works in conjunction with the workflow graph builder to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-01 Tim Jenness , James F. Bosch , Nate B. Lust , Nathan M. Pease , Michelle Gower , Mikolaj Kowalik , Gregory P. Dubois-Felsmann , Fritz Mueller , Pim Schellart

The JEM-EUSO Collaboration aims at studying Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays (UHECR) from space. To reach this goal, a series of pathfinder missions has been developed to prove the observation principle and to raise the technological readiness…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-30 Valentina Scotti , Giuseppe Osteria , Francesco Perfetto

We present The MKID Pipeline, a general use science data pipeline for the reduction and analysis of ultraviolet, optical and infrared (UVOIR) Microwave Kinetic Inductance Detector (MKID) data sets. This paper provides an introduction to the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-04 Sarah Steiger , John I. Bailey , Nicholas Zobrist , Noah Swimmer , Rupert Dodkins , Kristina K. Davis , Benjamin A. Mazin

New generations of neutron scattering sources and instrumentation are providing challenges in data handling for user software. Time-of-Flight instruments used at pulsed sources typically produce hundreds or thousands of channels of data for…

Graphics · Computer Science 2007-05-23 T. G. Worlton , A. Chatterjee , J. P. Hammonds , P. F. Peterson , D. J. Mikkelson , R. L. Mikkelson

The INTEGRAL Science Data Centre (ISDC) processes, archives and distributes data from the INTEGRAL mission. At the ISDC incoming data from the satellite are processed and searched for transient sources and Gamma-Ray bursts. The data are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 V. Beckmann

The IceCube Neutrino Observatory instruments roughly one cubic kilometer of deep, glacial ice below the geographic South Pole with 5160 optical sensors to register the Cherenkov light of passing relativistic, charged particles. Since its…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-11-26 Martin Rongen

The formation of biomolecular materials via dynamical interfacial processes such as self-assembly and fusion, for diverse compositions and external conditions, can be efficiently probed using ensemble Molecular Dynamics. However, this…

We present the Rubin Observatory system for data storage/retrieval and pipelined code execution. The layer for data storage and retrieval is named the Butler. It consists of a relational database, known as the registry, to keep track of…

Work in time-domain astronomy necessitates robust, automated data processing pipelines that operate in real time. We present the BANZAI pipeline which processes the thousands of science images produced across the Las Cumbres Observatory…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-13 Curtis McCully , Nikolaus H. Volgenau , Daniel-Rolf Harbeck , Tim A. Lister , Eric S. Saunders , Monica L. Turner , Robert J. Siverd , Mark Bowman

The two fastest near infrared survey telescopes are UKIRT-WFCAM and VISTA. The data from both these instruments are being archived by Wide Field Astronomy Unit (WFAU) at the IfA, Edinburgh, using the same curation pipeline, with some…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2010-12-21 Nicholas Cross , Ross Collins , Echhard Sutorius , Nigel Hambly , Rob Blake , Mike Read

A huge amount of data has been acquired with the GREGOR Fabry-P\'erot Interferometer (GFPI), large-format facility cameras, and since 2016 with the High-resolution Fast Imager (HiFI). These data are processed in standardized procedures with…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-20 C. Kuckein , C. Denker , M. Verma , H. Balthasar , S. J. González Manrique , R. E. Louis , A. Diercke

Observatories and satellites around the globe produce tremendous amounts of imaging data to study many different astrophysical phenomena. The serendipitous observations of Solar System objects are a fortunate by-product which have often…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-06-11 Max Mahlke , Enrique Solano , Hervé Bouy , Benoit Carry , Gijs A. Verdoes Kleijn , Emmanuel Bertin

The gamma-ray astronomical observatory INTEGRAL, succesfully launched on 17th October 2002, carries two large gamma-ray telescopes. One of them is the coded-mask imaging gamma-ray telescope onboard the INTEGRAL satellite (IBIS) which…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 A. Goldwurm , P. David , L. Foschini , A. Gros , P. Laurent , A. Sauvageon , A. J. Bird , L. Lerusse , N. Produit

The IceCube Neutrino Observatory is a cubic kilometer neutrino telescope located at the Geographic South Pole. For every observed neutrino event, there are over $10^6$ background events caused by cosmic ray air shower muons. In order to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-05-10 Kevin Meagher , Jakob van Santen

Astronomical photometry is the science of measuring the flux of a celestial object. Since its introduction, the CCD has been the principle method of measuring flux to calculate the apparent magnitude of an object. Each CCD image taken must…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-02-11 Paul Doyle

A major challenge in modern radio astronomy is dealing with the massive data volumes generated by wide-bandwidth receivers. Such massive data rates are often too great for a single device to cope, and so processing must be split across…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-23 Danny C. Price

We explore how astronomers take observational data from telescopes, process them into usable scientific data products, curate them for later use, and reuse data for further inquiry. Astronomers have invested heavily in knowledge…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-07 Christine L. Borgman , Morgan F. Wofford

In this paper we present the Data Processor (DP) of EUSO-SPB2 (Extreme Universe Space Observatory on a Super Pressure Balloon, mission two) telescopes . The EUSO-SPB2 is the continuation of the JEM-EUSO science program on ultra-long…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-05 Giuseppe Osteria , Valentina Scotti , Francesco Perfetto

Binospec is a high-throughput, 370 to 1000 nm, imaging spectrograph that addresses two adjacent 8' by 15' fields of view. Binospec was commissioned in late 2017 at the f/5 focus of the 6.5m MMT and is now available to all MMT observers.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-06-12 Jan Kansky , Igor Chilingarian , Daniel Fabricant , Anne Matthews , Sean Moran , Martin Paegert , J. Duane Gibson , Dallan Porter , John Roll