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University of Washington, Seattle
September 20-22, 2004
Poster Summary (9:30 - 10:00 a.m.)
Suzanne Hawley, University of Washington
In our poster we present an automized reduction pipeline for the reduction of multichip CCD data. Our approach for the astrometric and photometric calibration is outlined in more detail. We present a statistically optimized weighting strategy helping to conserve the maximum amount of information during the image coaddition process. Wherever possible our pipeline is based on existing software modules, such as EIS drizzle, the Terapix software suit, FLIPS, Eclipse, Imcat and LDAC which are wrapped together with a number of bash shell scripts. The essentail pipeline modules are all written in ANSI-C and hence it is easily portable to new architectures. It has already successfully been used under SUN Solaris, IBM AIX, Linux (Linux/Alpha, Linux/x86, Linux/AMD64), DEC Alpha, HP-UX and IRIX64.