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DESCQA: An Automated Validation Framework for Synthetic Sky Catalogs
Yao-Yuan Mao, Eve Kovacs, Katrin Heitmann +24
The use of high-quality simulated sky catalogs is essential for the success of cosmological surveys. The catalogs have diverse applications, such as investigating signatures of fun…
astro-ph.IM2017
Real-Time Recovery Efficiencies and Performance of the Palomar Transient Factory's Transient Discovery Pipeline
C. Frohmaier, M. Sullivan, P. E. Nugent +2
We present the transient source detection efficiencies of the Palomar Transient Factory (PTF), parameterizing the number of transients that PTF found, versus the number of similar…