Abstract / Description of output
The wide-field camera (WFCAM) on UKIRT is performing a variety of
infrared surveys, from the large consortium-led UKIRT Infrared Deep Sky
Surveys (UKIDSS) to the smaller private programmes that vary
considerably in duration and nature. All of these data are released in
the WFCAM Science Archive (WSA), initially only to the principal
investigators and then publicly once a proprietary period has elapsed,
prepared by the Wide-Field Astronomy Unit (WFAU) at the University of
Edinburgh. Development of released data products has thus far focused on
the requirements of UKIDSS, because the other WFCAM programmes are both
too numerous and varied to support as fully. Here we describe our
approach towards the automated preparation of a standard set of release
products for all of these private programmes. This includes support for
most of the features available in UKIDSS releases, such as tables of
passband-merged, unique sources, as well as deep image stacking and
synoptic data sets for surveys with repeated observations. The same
approach can also now be adopted to private data in the forthcoming
VISTA Science Archive.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 226 |
| Journal | Astronomical Society of the Pacific Conference Series |
| Volume | 411 |
| Publication status | Published - 1 Sept 2009 |