Quality control and data flow operations of the survey instrument VIRCAM

Wolfgang Hummel; Reinhard Hanuschik; Lander de Bilbao; Steffen Mieske; Thomas Szeifert; Valentin Ivanov; Sandra Castro

doi:10.1117/12.856414

29 July 2010 Quality control and data flow operations of the survey instrument VIRCAM

Wolfgang Hummel, Reinhard Hanuschik, Lander de Bilbao, Steffen Mieske, Thomas Szeifert, Valentin Ivanov, Sandra Castro

Proceedings Volume 7737, Observatory Operations: Strategies, Processes, and Systems III; 77371H (2010) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.856414
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2010, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

VIRCAM is the wide field infrared camera of the VISTA survey telescope on Paranal. VIRCAM, operated by ESO since Oct. 2009, is equipped with 16 detectors and produces on average 150 Gigabytes of data per night. In the following article we describe the back-end data flow operations and in particular the quality control procedures which are applied to ESO VIRCAM data.

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Wolfgang Hummel, Reinhard Hanuschik, Lander de Bilbao, Steffen Mieske, Thomas Szeifert, Valentin Ivanov, and Sandra Castro "Quality control and data flow operations of the survey instrument VIRCAM", Proc. SPIE 7737, Observatory Operations: Strategies, Processes, and Systems III, 77371H (29 July 2010); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.856414

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