The WFCAM Science Archive

By Nigel C. Hambly, R. Collins, N. Cross, R. Mann, M. Read, E. Sutorius, I. Bond, J. Bryant, J. Emerson, A. Lawrence and 7 more. 2006

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We describe the WFCAM Science Archive, which is the primary point of access for users of data from the wide-field infrared camera WFCAM on the United Kingdom Infrared Telescope (UKIRT), especially science catalogue products from the UKIRT Infrared Deep Sky Survey. We describe the database design with emphasis on those aspects of the system that enable users to fully exploit the survey data sets in a variety of different ways. We give details of the database-driven curation applications that take data from the standard nightly pipeline-processed and calibrated files for the production of science-ready survey data sets. We describe the fundamentals of querying relational databases with a set of astronomy usage examples, and illustrate the results.

Subfields: Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Computational Mechanics, Instrumentation

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The VISTA Science Archive (2012, methodology): “Occasionally a particular pawprint detector is deprecatedfor one of several reasons (Hambly et al. 2008), e.g. poor sky subtraction, bad channels, detector was not working correctlyat the time of observation.”
The VLT Survey Telescope ATLAS (2015, result): “Similar in design to the science archives developed by WFAU for sky survey data from UKIRT/WFCAM (Hambly et al. 2008) and VISTA (Cross et al. 2012), the OSA provides a range of access methods to both image and catalogue data products.”
SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey Data Release 12: galaxy target selection and large-scale structure catalogues (2015, methodology): “…(Abazajian et al. 2009; Annis et al. 2014) with near-infrared J- and K-band imaging from the UKIDSS Large Area Survey Data Release 4 (Hewett et al. 2006; Casali et al. 2007; Lawrence et al. 2007; Hambly et al. 2008) in order to define a robust set of stars and galaxies over an area of 150 deg2.”
THE RED MSX SOURCE SURVEY: THE MASSIVE YOUNG STELLAR POPULATION OF OUR GALAXY (2013, methodology): “The pipeline processing and science archive for UKIDSS/VVV are described in Hodgkin et al (2012), and Hambly et al (2008).”
Post-starburst galaxies: more than just an interesting curiosity (2008, methodology): “The photometric system is described in Hewett et al. (2006), the pipeline processing and science archive are described in Hambly et al. (2008).”
Galaxy and Mass Assembly (GAMA): survey diagnostics and core data release (2010, methodology): “The pipeline processing and science archive are described in Irwin et al. (2009, in preparation) and Hambly et al. (2008).”
THE SDSS-III BARYON OSCILLATION SPECTROSCOPIC SURVEY: QUASAR TARGET SELECTION FOR DATA RELEASE NINE (2011, methodology): “The pipeline processing is described in Irwin et al. (2011, in prep.) and the WFCAM Science Archive (WSA) by Hambly et al. (2008).”
Empirical determination of the shape of dust attenuation curves in star-forming galaxies (2011, methodology): “UKIDSS uses the UKIRT Wide Field Camera (WFCAM, Casali et al. 2007), the photometric system is described in Hewett et al. (2006), the calibraton in Hodgkin et al. (2009) and the science archive in Hambly et al. (2008).”
THE DISK POPULATION OF THE UPPER SCORPIUS ASSOCIATION (2012, methodology): “The pipeline processing and science archive are described by Irwin et al. (in preparation) and Hambly et al. (2008). the 24 µm band of MIPS, respectively.”
The KMOS Redshift One Spectroscopic Survey (KROSS):dynamical properties, gas and dark matter fractions of typical z~1 star-forming galaxies (2016, neutral): “…the multi-wavelength, optical–infrared (U, g, B, V, R, I, z, J, K and IRAC: 3.6 and 4.5 µm) imaging (Cirasuolo et al. 2007; Lawrence et al. 2007; Hambly et al. 2008; Williams et al. 2009; Cardamone et al. 2010; Kim et al. 2011a; Muzzin et al. 2013a; Simpson et al. 2014; Sobral et al. 2015 and…”
Dark Energy Survey Year 1 Results: The Photometric Data Set for Cosmology (2017, methodology): “The pipeline processing and science archive are described in Irwin et al (2009, in prep) and Hambly et al. (2008).”
Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA): the input catalogue and star–galaxy separation (2009, methodology): “There is a dedicated pipeline for reducing and a system for archiving the UKIDSS data (Hambly et al. 2008).”
A STUDY OF THE DIVERSE T DWARF POPULATION REVEALED BY WISE (2013, methodology): “Ten of our candidates are available in UKIDSS Data Release 8 (Hewett et al. 2006; Lawrence et al. 2007; Casali et al. 2007; Hambly et al. 2008; Hodgkin et al. 2009).”