1. The Sloan Digital Sky Survey monitor telescope pipeline
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Department of Physics, University of Michigan, 500 East University, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1120, USA, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, P.O. Box 500, Batavia, IL 60510, USA ; Dept. of Astronomy and Astrophysics, The University of Chicago, 5640 South Ellis Avenue, Chicago, IL 60637, USA, Physics Department, Rochester Institute of Technology, 85 Lomb Memorial Drive, Rochester, NY 14623-5603, USA, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, P.O. Box 500, Batavia, IL 60510, USA, Deptartment of Physics & Astronomy, Austin Peay State University, P.O. Box 4608, Clarksville, TN 37044 USA ; Los Alamos National Laboratory, ISR-4, MS D448, Los Alamos, NM 87545-0000, USA ; Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY 82071, USA, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, P.O. 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Box 500, Batavia, IL 60510, USA ; Space Telescope Science Institute, 3700 San Martin Drive, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, P.O. Box 500, Batavia, IL 60510, USA ; Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1 Cyclotron Rd, Berkeley CA 94720-8160, USA, Department of Physics, Carnegie Mellon University, 5000 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15232, USA ; Dept. of Astronomy, 105-24, California Inst. of Tech., 1201 East California Boulevard, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA, US Naval Observatory, Flagstaff Station, P.O. Box 1149, Flagstaff, AZ 86002, USA, Dept. of Physics, Appl. Phys., Astron., Rensselaer Polytech. Inst., 100 Eighth Street, Troy, NY 12180-3590, USA, Princeton University Observatory, Peyton Hall, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA ; Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1 Cyclotron Rd, Berkeley CA 94720-8160, USA, Observatories of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, 813 Santa Barbara Street, Pasadena, CA 91101, USA, Kent, S., Richmond, M. W., Annis, J., Smith, J. A., Allam, S. S., Rodgers, C. T., Stute, J. L., Adelman-Mc Carthy, J. K., Brinkmann, J., Doi, M., Finkbeiner, D., Fukugita, M., Goldston, J., Greenway, B., Gunn, J. E., Hendry, J. S., Hogg, D. W., Ichikawa, S. -I., Ivezić, [zcaron]., Knapp, G. R., Lampeitl, H., Lee, B. C., Lin, H., McKay, T. A., Merrelli, A., Munn, J. A., Neilsen, E. H., Newberg, H. J., Richards, G. T., Schlegel, D. J., Stoughton, C., Uomoto, A., Yanny, B., Department of Physics, University of Michigan, 500 East University, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1120, USA, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, P.O. Box 500, Batavia, IL 60510, USA ; Dept. of Astronomy and Astrophysics, The University of Chicago, 5640 South Ellis Avenue, Chicago, IL 60637, USA, Physics Department, Rochester Institute of Technology, 85 Lomb Memorial Drive, Rochester, NY 14623-5603, USA, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, P.O. Box 500, Batavia, IL 60510, USA, Deptartment of Physics & Astronomy, Austin Peay State University, P.O. Box 4608, Clarksville, TN 37044 USA ; Los Alamos National Laboratory, ISR-4, MS D448, Los Alamos, NM 87545-0000, USA ; Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY 82071, USA, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, P.O. Box 500, Batavia, IL 60510, USA ; Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY 82071, USA, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY 82071, USA, Apache Point Observatory, P.O. Box 59, Sunspot, NM 88349, USA, Institute of Astronomy, School of Science, University of Tokyo, Osawa 2-21-1, Mitaka, Tokyo 181-0015, Japan, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA ; Princeton University Observatory, Peyton Hall, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA, Institute for Cosmic Ray Research, University of Tokyo, 5-1-5 Kashiwa, Kashiwa City, Chiba 277-8582, Japan, Princeton University Observatory, Peyton Hall, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA ; University of California at Berkeley, Depts. of Physics and Astronomy, 601 Campbell Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA, Princeton University Observatory, Peyton Hall, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA, Department of Physics, New York University, 4 Washington Place, New York, NY 10003, USA, National Astronomical Observatory, 2-21-1 Osawa, Mitaka, Tokyo 181-8588, Japan, Princeton University Observatory, Peyton Hall, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA ; Department of Astronomy, University of Washington, Box 351580, Seattle WA 98195-1580 USA, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, P.O. Box 500, Batavia, IL 60510, USA ; Space Telescope Science Institute, 3700 San Martin Drive, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, P.O. Box 500, Batavia, IL 60510, USA ; Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1 Cyclotron Rd, Berkeley CA 94720-8160, USA, Department of Physics, Carnegie Mellon University, 5000 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15232, USA ; Dept. of Astronomy, 105-24, California Inst. of Tech., 1201 East California Boulevard, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA, US Naval Observatory, Flagstaff Station, P.O. Box 1149, Flagstaff, AZ 86002, USA, Dept. of Physics, Appl. Phys., Astron., Rensselaer Polytech. Inst., 100 Eighth Street, Troy, NY 12180-3590, USA, Princeton University Observatory, Peyton Hall, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA ; Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1 Cyclotron Rd, Berkeley CA 94720-8160, USA, Observatories of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, 813 Santa Barbara Street, Pasadena, CA 91101, USA, Kent, S., Richmond, M. W., Annis, J., Smith, J. A., Allam, S. S., Rodgers, C. T., Stute, J. L., Adelman-Mc Carthy, J. K., Brinkmann, J., Doi, M., Finkbeiner, D., Fukugita, M., Goldston, J., Greenway, B., Gunn, J. E., Hendry, J. S., Hogg, D. W., Ichikawa, S. -I., Ivezić, [zcaron]., Knapp, G. R., Lampeitl, H., Lee, B. C., Lin, H., McKay, T. A., Merrelli, A., Munn, J. A., Neilsen, E. H., Newberg, H. J., Richards, G. T., Schlegel, D. J., Stoughton, C., Uomoto, A., and Yanny, B.
- Abstract
The photometric calibration of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) is a multi-step process which involves data from three different telescopes: the 1.0-m telescope at the US Naval Observatory (USNO), Flagstaff Station, Arizona (which was used to establish the SDSS standard star network); the SDSS 0.5-m Photometric Telescope (PT) at the Apache Point Observatory (APO), NewMexico (which calculates nightly extinctions and calibrates secondary patch transfer fields); and the SDSS 2.5-m telescope at APO (which obtains the imaging data for the SDSS proper). In this paper, we describe the Monitor Telescope Pipeline, MTPIPE, the software pipeline used in processing the data from the single-CCD telescopes used in the photometric calibration of the SDSS (i.e., the USNO 1.0-m and the PT). We also describe transformation equations that convert photometry on the USNO-1.0m u ′ g ′ r ′ i ′ z ′ system to photometry the SDSS 2.5m ugriz system and the results of various validation tests of the MTPIPE software. Further, we discuss the semi-automated PT factory, which runs MTPIPE in the day-to-day standard SDSS operations at Fermilab. Finally, we discuss the use of MTPIPE in current SDSS-related projects, including the Southern u ′ g ′ r ′ i ′ z ′ Standard Star project, the u ′ g ′ r ′ i ′ z ′ Open Star Clusters project, and the SDSS extension (SDSS-II). (© 2006 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)
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- 2007