The architectural design of the Astro-WISE system - July 2003

This document describes the Astro-WISE data reduction environment and is updated frequently.

Distributed processing means that certain recipes, like processes, can or will be executed on specially devoted processors.

The concept of context facilitates access of data related to specific projects or Surveys.

Software design document,  written for those who need to know every little detail of the photometric pipelines.

The methods, performance, and accuracies of both the local (chip-by-chip) and global (all chips and pointings at once) astrometric solutions as performed by the Astro-WISE Information System is explored.

for the Astro-WISE and OmegaCAM projects.

HTML primer for CCD data reduction by M. Schirmer.

Compressed PostScript version of the IRAF specific primer by P. Massey. This document is highly IRAF specific, but gives a good overview of the principles of CCD reductions.

Contains a large number of introductions, tutorials and other miscellaneous information on Python: the development language of Astro-WISE

Description of the weighting scheme in the Astro-WISE system.

This document defines the user requirements which must be supported.

This document describes the implementations of the calibration procedures both at the VSTelescope and for the data reduction.

This document defines the detailed data reduction procedures to be applied to raw data frames including input data and algorithms required, as it is perceived within the ESO-DMD environment

Here is an list of all the calibration requirements for OmegaCAM. These are the detector electronics (5.2), detectors (5.3), detectors operational (5.4), astrometric (5.5), photometric (5.6) and the internal calibration (5.7).

The awe prompt basically is a python prompt.

SExtractor software extracts sources from astronomical images.

SWarp software resamples (regrids) and co-adds FITS images.

Leiden Data Analysis Center (LDAC) Pipeline documentation.

Eclipse software library manipulates FITS images.

PyFITS provides an interface to FITS formatted files.

Matplotlib is a python 2D plotting library.