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 Telescope's Data Management system, adding customizations for HSC, large-scale processing capabilities, and novel algorithms that have since been reincorporated into the LSST codebase. While designed primarily to reduce HSC Subaru Strategic Program (SSP) data, it is also the recommended pipeline for reducing general-observer HSC data. The HSC pipeline includes high level processing steps that generate coadded images and science-ready catalogs as well as low-level detrending and image characterizations.
@article{arxiv.1705.06766,
title = {The Hyper Suprime-Cam Software Pipeline},
author = {James Bosch and Robert Armstrong and Steven Bickerton and Hisanori Furusawa and Hiroyuki Ikeda and Michitaro Koike and Robert Lupton and Sogo Mineo and Paul Price and Tadafumi Takata and Masayuki Tanaka and Naoki Yasuda and Yusra AlSayyad and Andrew C. Becker and William Coulton and Jean Coupon and Jose Garmilla and Song Huang and K. Simon Krughoff and Dustin Lang and Alexie Leauthaud and Kian-Tat Lim and Nate B. Lust and Lauren A. MacArthur and Rachel Mandelbaum and Hironao Miyatake and Satoshi Miyazaki and Ryoma Murata and Surhud More and Yuki Okura and Russell Owen and John D. Swinbank and Michael A. Strauss and Yoshihiko Yamada and Hitomi Yamanoi},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1705.06766},
year = {2018}
}
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39 pages, 21 figures, 2 tables. Submitted to Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan