The VISTA Science Archive

By N. Cross, R. Collins, R. Mann, M. Read, E. Sutorius, R. Blake, Mark Holliman, Nigel C. Hambly, J. Emerson, A. Lawrence and 1 more. 2012

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We describe the VISTA Science Archive (VSA) and itsfirst public release of data from five of the six VISTA public surveys. The VSA exists to support the VISTA surveys through their lifecycle: the VISTA Public Survey consortia can use it during their quality control assessment of survey data products before submission to the ESO Science Archive Facility (ESO SAF); it supports their exploitation of survey data prior to its publication through the ESO SAF; and, subsequently, it provides the wider community with survey science exploitation tools that complement the data product repository functionality of the ESO SAF. This paper has been written in conjunction with the first public release of public survey data through the VSA and is designed to help its users understand the data products available and how the functionality of the VSA supports their varied science goals. We describe the design of the database and outline the database-driven curation processes that take data from nightly pipeline-processed and calibrated FITS files to create science-ready survey datasets. Much of this design, and the codebase implementing it, derives from our earlier WFCAM Science Archive (WSA), so this paper concentrates on the VISTA-specific aspects and on improvements made to the system in the light of experience gained in operating the WSA.

Subfields: Astronomy and Astrophysics, Computational Mechanics, Instrumentation

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Citations in the corpus

• The VLT Survey Telescope ATLAS (2015, result): “The survey is being made alongside its sister VISTA Hemisphere Survey (VHS; McMahon et al. 2013) which is supplying the YJK bands.”
• Host Galaxy Properties and Offset Distributions of Fast Radio Bursts: Implications for Their Progenitors (2020, methodology): “0941−130116.004 (see Figure 1), which was previously cataloged by the Pan-STARRS (Chambers et al. 2016) and the VISTA (Cross et al. 2012) surveys.”
• The second data release of the INT Photometric Hα Survey of the Northern Galactic Plane (IPHAS DR2) (2014, methodology): “…Camera (WFCAM) Science Archive (WSA; Hambly et al. 2008) and the Visible and Infrared MNRAS 444, 3230–3257 (2014) at U niversity of K eele on D ecem ber 12, 2016 http://m nras.oxfordjournals.org/ D ow nloaded from Survey Telescope for Astronomy (VISTA) Science Archive (VSA; Cross et al. 2012).”