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astro-ph.IM2015★ 13 cited

The SVOM gamma-ray burst mission

B. Cordier, J. Wei, J. -L. Atteia +20

We briefly present the science capabilities, the instruments, the operations, and the expected performance of the SVOM mission. SVOM (Space-based multiband astronomical Variable Ob…

astro-ph.IM2015★ 6 cited

The JScanam Map-Maker Method Applied to Herschel/PACS Photometer Observations

Javier Graciá-Carpio, Michael Wetzstein, Hélène Roussel

JScanam is the default map-maker for Herschel/PACS photometer observations. Making use of the redundant information from multiple passages on the sky with different scanning direct…

astro-ph.IM2015★ 15 cited

Crowdsourcing quality control for Dark Energy Survey images

P. Melchior, E. Sheldon, A. Drlica-Wagner +47

We have developed a crowdsourcing web application for image quality control employed by the Dark Energy Survey. Dubbed the "DES exposure checker", it renders science-grade images d…

astro-ph.IM2015★ 208 cited

redMaGiC: Selecting Luminous Red Galaxies from the DES Science Verification Data

E. Rozo, E. S. Rykoff, A. Abate +84

We introduce redMaGiC, an automated algorithm for selecting Luminous Red Galaxies (LRGs). The algorithm was specifically developed to minimize photometric redshift uncertainties in…

astro-ph.IM2015★ 189 cited

The DES Science Verification Weak Lensing Shear Catalogues

M. Jarvis, E. Sheldon, J. Zuntz +92

We present weak lensing shear catalogues for 139 square degrees of data taken during the Science Verification (SV) time for the new Dark Energy Camera (DECam) being used for the Da…

astro-ph.IM2015★ 169 cited

The Difference Imaging Pipeline for the Transient Search in the Dark Energy Survey

R. Kessler, J. Marriner, M. Childress +60

We describe the difference imaging pipeline (DiffImg) used to detect transients in deep images from the Dark Energy Survey Supernova program (DES-SN) in its first observing season…

astro-ph.IM2015★ 96 cited

Planck 2015 results. V. LFI calibration

Planck Collaboration, P. A. R. Ade, N. Aghanim +206

We present a description of the pipeline used to calibrate the Planck Low Frequency Instrument (LFI) timelines into thermodynamic temperatures for the Planck 2015 data release, cov…

astro-ph.IM2015★ 4 cited

Efficient data structures for masks on 2D grids

Martin Reinecke, Eric Hivon

This article discusses various methods of representing and manipulating arbitrary coverage information in two dimensions, with a focus on space- and time-efficiency when processing…

astro-ph.IM2015★ 155 cited

Automated Transient Identification in the Dark Energy Survey

D. A. Goldstein, C. B. D'Andrea, J. A. Fischer +64

We describe an algorithm for identifying point-source transients and moving objects on reference-subtracted optical images containing artifacts of processing and instrumentation. T…

astro-ph.IM2015★ 62 cited

Planck 2015 results. II. Low Frequency Instrument data processing

Planck Collaboration, P. A. R. Ade, N. Aghanim +213

We present an updated description of the Planck Low Frequency Instrument (LFI) data processing pipeline, associated with the 2015 data release. We point out the places where our re…

astro-ph.IM2015★ 2.5k cited

The Eleventh and Twelfth Data Releases of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: Final Data from SDSS-III

Shadab Alam, Franco D. Albareti, Carlos Allende Prieto +271

The third generation of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS-III) took data from 2008 to 2014 using the original SDSS wide-field imager, the original and an upgraded multi-object fib…