Abstract
We present the data Quality Control (QC) infrastructure that has been put in place at the Cambridge Astronomical Survey Unit (CASU) to deal with the large data volume produced by WFCAM. QC measures are produced during pipeline processing and saved in the FITS headers and, afterwards, ingested into a relational database that serves a number of report-generating tools. QC measures includes: sky brightness and noise, average stellar ellipticity and seeing, astrometric calibration errors, per-image and nightly-averaged photometric zero points and errors and the number of detected sources per chip. The QC system has been used also to investigate the near-infrared sky brightness at Mauna Kea Observatory over a period of 3 semesters.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Preview
Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.
References
M. Casali, et al.: A&A 467, 777 (2007)
S. Dye, et al.: MNRAS 372, 1227 (2006)
S. Hodgkin, et al.: MNRAS, in preparation (2007)
A. Lawrence: MNRAS 379, 1599 (2007)
J. Lewis, et al.: these proceedings (2008)
S.K. Ramsey, C.M. Mountain, T.R. Geballe: MNRAS 259, 751 (1992)
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2008 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
About this paper
Cite this paper
Riello, M., Irwin, M. (2008). Quality Control Monitoring for WFCAM. In: Kaufer, A., Kerber, F. (eds) The 2007 ESO Instrument Calibration Workshop. ESO Astrophysics Symposia European Southern Observatory. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-76963-7_79
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-76963-7_79
Publisher Name: Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg
Print ISBN: 978-3-540-76962-0
Online ISBN: 978-3-540-76963-7
eBook Packages: Physics and AstronomyPhysics and Astronomy (R0)