The On-The-Fly Calibration (OTFC) system, publicly released in Dec. 1999, calibrated data at the time a user requested data from the archive. ... The On-The-Fly Reprocessing (OTFR) system replaced OTFC on May 16, 2001. ... UCHCOORD and OTFR. ... To address this issue, a new header keyword, PROCTIME, has been added to OTFR data to record when the system processed the data. ... OTFC . OTFR . ... POD file (original telemetry file) is retrieved from HST archive and passed to OTFR system. ...

Next: The ESO VLT CCD Detectors Software . ... Up: Instrument-Specific Software . ... The framework for data calibration and analysis of the VLT instrumentation is presented, based on the concepts of a calibration plan, pipeline calibration, quality control, and archiving of calibrated data for a ground-based observatory. ... Quality Control Pipeline provides quality assessment for instrument performance data and observing conditions, and tests the results of the Reduction Pipeline. ...

XMM-Newton Science Analysis System Page: 1 ppssumm January 10, 2003 Abstract Produce an HTML summary page for any XMM instrument, or produce an HTML summary of the pipeline processing of an observation (including PNG or PS product le links). ... The product and processing information for the PPS Catalog information. ... NoLogoBanner (warning) (warning) corrective action: corrective action: No LOGO to be written to HTML le.NoINSTSUMMtoHTMLNo INST- SUMM records written to HTML. ...

... Science . ... Science Users Information > Science Publications > Science Announcements > Processed Calibration Files for VLT instruments Now Available . ... ESO Data . ... ESOReflex data reduction workflows can be used to customize the generation of the processed and co-added calibration frames and to apply them to the science files. A detailed step-by-step guide on how to automatically associate the appropriate calibrations, raw or processed, to the science files of interest is available . ...

... Example of an Association Table . ... CCD commands . ... ROMAFOT Command List . ... Commands of the context LONG . ... Command parameters (1) . ... Checklist of necessary table files . ... Observation Summary Table with file classifications appended in column :EXPTYPE and :OPATH as defined and applied in Table . ... Columns for star-catalog table files . ... Passband columns of the instrument table file . ... Detector columns of the instrument table file . ... Columns of the gain-table file . ...

Next: Summary of Imaging Strategies Up: Primary Beams and Mosaicing Previous: Mosaicing Observing Strategies . ... Splitting: As with conventional reduction, for calibration and imaging purposes, it is easiest in Miriad to split the data into datasets containing a `single source' and single frequency band. ... vis=mosaic.uv . ... Data Selection: With mosaic visibility datasets, the select=ra and select=dec selection sub-commands can be useful to extract or manipulate a subset of the visibility data. ...

Distributed Software for Observations in Near Infrared V. Gavryusev 1 and C. Baffa Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri E. Giani Dipartamento di Astronomia, Universit`a di Firenze Abstract. ... The processes denoted for control of hardware (telescope and other instruments) should be executed currently on PC dedicated for this task under DESQview/X, while all other components (user interface, tools for the data analysis, etc.) can work also under Unix. ... 1993, Di Giacomo et al. 1993). ...

... It was designed to observe the solar wind approaching Earth, from a position near the Lagrangian point L1, and it is part of the International Solar-Terrestrial Physics (ISTP) Initiative . ... The original plan called for "Wind" to approach its final station over two years, undergoing two close encounters with the Moon to boost its speed. ... If however the object is moving , the encounter is not symmetric, and in the end the spacecraft may have gained or lost speed, depending on its trajectory. ...

... On­The­Fly Re­Calibration of HST Observations B. Pirenne and A. Micol Space Telescope -- European Coordinating Facility, ESO, Garching, D­85748 D. Durand and S. Gaudet Canadian Astronomy Data Centre, DAO, Victoria, BC Abstract. ... On­the­fly re­calibration data flow: from request submis­ sion to data delivery. ... On­the­fly re­calibration has another advantage for our archive sites: we only need to keep the raw data and calibration reference files on­line for the process to be automatic. ...