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The LSST Data Processing Software Stack: Summer 2015 Release

2015/11/20 by Tim Jenness, Jenness, Tim
Physics and Astronomy · #FOS: Physical sciences #Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM) #astro-ph.IM

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1511.06790

4 pages, poster paper presented at the Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems XXV Conference held in October 2015 in Sydney, Australia

arxiv created 2015/11/20 · arxiv updated 2015/11/24

Abstract

The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) is an 8-m optical ground-based telescope being constructed on Cerro Pachon in Chile. LSST will survey half the sky every few nights in six optical bands. The data will be transferred to NCSA and within 60 seconds they will be reduced using difference imaging techniques and detected transients will be announced to the community in the VOEvent format. Annual data releases will be made from all the data during the 10-year mission, with unprecedented depth of coadds and time resolution of catalogs for such a large region of sky. In this paper we present the current status of the data processing software, and describe how to obtain it.

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