AQuA: An automatic pipeline for fast transients detection

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5496, Issue , 2004, Pages 729-737

  Testa, V ^a   Antonelli, L A ^a   Di Paola, A ^a   Melandri, A ^a,b   Calzoletti, L ^a,c   Cunniffe, R ^j   Zerbi, F M ^d,e   Chincarini, G ^f   Rodono M ^g   Conconi, P ^d,e   Covino, S ^d,e   Cutispoto, G ^h   Molinari, E ^d,e   Tosti, G ⁱ  

^a INAF OSSERVATORIO ASTRONOMICO DI ROMA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAGLIARI   (Italy)

^c SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^d DUBLIN INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDIES   (Ireland)

^e INAF OSSERVATORIO ASTRONOMICO DI BRERA   (Italy)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^g INAF OSSERVATORIO ASTROFISICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

^h INAF OSSERVATORIO ASTROFISICO DI CATANIA   (Italy)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

^j NONE

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Author keywords

Computing; Decision making; Image reduction; Pipeline; Sources detection

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN ESTIMATORS; IMAGE REDUCTION; PIPELINE; SOURCES DETECTION;

ALGORITHMS; CAMERAS; DATA REDUCTION; GAMMA RAYS; INFRARED RADIATION; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; SATELLITES;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

EID: 19944426466     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.551507     Document Type: Conference Paper

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