The dark energy survey data processing and calibration system

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 8451, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Mohr, Joseph J ^a,b   Armstrong, Robert ^c   Bertin, Emmanuel ^d   Daues, Gregory E ^e   Desai, Shantanu ^a   Gower, Michelle ^e   Gruendl, Robert ^e   Hanlon, William ^e   Kuropatkin, Nikolay ^f   Lin, Huan ^f   Marriner, John ^f   Petravick, Don ^e   Sevilla, Ignacio ^g   Swanson, Molly ^h   Tomashek, Todd ^e   Tucker, Douglas ^f   Yanny, Brian ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR EXTRATERRESTRISCHE PHYSIK   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^d INSTITUT D'ASTROPHYSIQUE DE PARIS   (France)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^f FERMI NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

^g CIEMAT   (Spain)

^h HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

Author keywords

Data management; High performance computing; Optical astronomy

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATED PROCESSING; CALIBRATION SYSTEM; COADDITION; DARK ENERGY; DATA MANAGEMENT SYSTEM; DATA QUALITY; DATA VOLUME; HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING; JOINT MODELS; MODEL FITTING; MULTIPLE INPUTS; NEW HIGH; OPTICAL ASTRONOMY; PHOTOMETRIC CALIBRATION; PSF MODELING; REAL DATA SETS; SCIENCE OPERATIONS; SIMULATED DATASETS; SURVEY DATA; TURN-AROUNDS;

ASTROPHYSICS; CALIBRATION; DATA PROCESSING; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; PHOTOMETRY; SOFTWARE TESTING;

SURVEYS;

EID: 84872201636     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.926785     Document Type: Conference Paper

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