The Photometry Pipeline of the Watcher Robotic Telescope

Advances in Astronomy

Research Article

M. Hoffman¹  J. Calitz¹  P. Meintjes¹  B. McBreen³  M. Jelínek²  P. Kubánek²  S. McBreen³  G. Melady³  J. French³  R. Felletti³  L. Hanlon³  A. Ferrero³ 

[1] Physics Department, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein 9301, South Africa, uovs.ac.za;Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía, C/ Bajo de Huétor 50, ES 18008 Granada, Spain, iaa.es;Space Science Group, School of Physics, University College Dublin, Ireland, ucd.ie

Others  :  1265961
DOI  :  10.1155/2010/715237

 received in 2009-06-30, accepted in 2009-12-02,  发布年份 2010

【 摘 要 】

The Watcher robotic telescope was developed primarily to perform rapid optical follow-up observations of Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs). Secondary scientific goals include blazar monitoring and variable star studies. An automated photometry pipeline to rapidly analyse data from Watcher has been implemented. Details of the procedures to get image zero-point, source instrumental measurement, and limiting magnitude are presented. Sources of uncertainty are assessed and the performance of the pipeline is tested by comparison with a number of catalogue sources.

【 授权许可】

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Copyright © 2010 2010

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