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Pipeline and data flow for the INAF‐Capodimonte guaranteed observing time at VLT Survey Telescope
Author(s) -
Grado A.,
Capaccioli M.,
Silvotti R.,
Pavlov M.,
Getman F.,
Volpicelli A.,
Alcala' J. M.,
Radovich M.,
Puddu E.,
Capasso G.,
Busarello G.,
Cappellaro E.,
Marconi M.,
Longo G.
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
astronomische nachrichten
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.394
H-Index - 63
eISSN - 1521-3994
pISSN - 0004-6337
DOI - 10.1002/asna.200410290
Subject(s) - physics , telescope , observatory , very large telescope , astronomy , large synoptic survey telescope , sky , astrophysics , remote sensing , stars , geology
VST is the acronym for VLT Survey Telescope, a 2.6 m wide‐field (WF) imaging telescope conceived and built by the INAF‐Capodimonte Astronomical Observatory in Naples (INAF‐OAC) chiefly to serve the ESO VLT at the Cerro Paranal Observatory. The VST will be equipped with a 16 K × 16 K mosaic camera built by the European consortium OmegaCam. The system shall cover a corrected field of view of 1 square degree with a pixel scale of 0.21 arcsec. The expected average data rate will be about 150 GB per night; a flood of data implying suitable HW/SW facilities. ESO, operating the telescope at Paranal, will reserve about 20% of the VST observing time to INAF‐OAC in return for the procurement of the instrument. The INAF‐OAC core program planned for this time includes a galactic and an extragalactic survey, a SN search campaign, and an extended monitoring of the minor bodies of the Solar System. In this paper we describe the data flow, the data model, and the features of the processing system under development. (© 2004 WILEY‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)