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A Virtual Data Grid for LIGO
GriPhyN (Grid Physics Network) is a large US collaboration to
build grid services for large physics experiments, one of which is LIGO, a
gravitational-wave observatory. This paper explains the physics and computing
challenges of LIGO, and the tools that GriPhyN will build to address
them. A key component needed to implement the data pipeline is a virtual
data service; a system to dynamically create data products requested during
the various stages. The data could possibly be already processed in a certain
way, it may be in a file on a storage system, it may be cached, or it may need
to be created through computation. The full elaboration of this system will al-low
complex data pipelines to be set up as virtual data objects, with existing
data being transformed in diverse ways
The QUEST Data Processing Software Pipeline
A program that we call the QUEST Data Processing Software Pipeline has been
written to process the large volumes of data produced by the QUEST camera on
the Samuel Oschin Schmidt Telescope at the Palomar Observatory. The program
carries out both aperture and PSF photometry, combines data from different
repeated observations of the same portion of sky, and produces a Master Object
Catalog. A rough calibration of the data is carried out. This program, as well
as the calibration procedures and quality checks on the output are described.Comment: 17 pages, 1 table, 8 figure
SDSS Standard Star Catalog for Stripe 82: the Dawn of Industrial 1% Optical Photometry
We describe a standard star catalog constructed using multiple SDSS
photometric observations (at least four per band, with a median of ten) in the
system. The catalog includes 1.01 million non-variable unresolved
objects from the equatorial stripe 82 ( 1.266) in
the RA range 20h 34m to 4h 00m, and with the corresponding band
(approximately Johnson V band) magnitudes in the range 14--22. The
distributions of measurements for individual sources demonstrate that the
photometric pipeline correctly estimates random photometric errors, which are
below 0.01 mag for stars brighter than (19.5, 20.5, 20.5, 20, 18.5) in ,
respectively (about twice as good as for individual SDSS runs). Several
independent tests of the internal consistency suggest that the spatial
variation of photometric zeropoints is not larger than 0.01 mag (rms). In
addition to being the largest available dataset with optical photometry
internally consistent at the 1% level, this catalog provides practical
definition of the SDSS photometric system. Using this catalog, we show that
photometric zeropoints for SDSS observing runs can be calibrated within nominal
uncertainty of 2% even for data obtained through 1 mag thick clouds, and
demonstrate the existence of He and H white dwarf sequences using photometric
data alone. Based on the properties of this catalog, we conclude that upcoming
large-scale optical surveys such as the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope will be
capable of delivering robust 1% photometry for billions of sources.Comment: 63 pages, 24 figures, submitted to AJ, version with correct figures
and catalog available from
http://www.astro.washington.edu/ivezic/sdss/catalogs/stripe82.htm
A Deep Proper-Motion Survey in Kapteyn Selected Areas: I. Survey Description and First Results for Stars in the Tidal Tail of Sagittarius and in the Monoceros Ring
We describe a high-precision, deep (to V ~ 19-21) absolute proper-motion
survey that samples ~50 lines of sight in the Kapteyn Selected Areas along
declination zones -15, 0 and 15 degrees. In many fields the astrometric
baseline reaches nearly a century. We demonstrate that these data provide
typical per star precisions between ~ 1 and 3 mas/yr to the above magnitude
limits, with the absolute reference frame established by numerous extragalactic
sources in each survey field. Combined with existing and ongoing photometric
and radial velocity surveys in these fields, these astrometric data will
enable, among other things, accurate, detailed dynamical modeling of satellite
interactions with our Galaxy. In this contribution we describe the astrometric
part of our survey and show preliminary results along the trailing tail of the
Sagittarius dwarf galaxy, and in the Monoceros ring region.Comment: Accepter for publication in the Astronomical Journa
A methodological proposal and tool support for the HL7 standards compliance in the development of health information systems
Health information systems are increasingly complex, and their development is presented as a challenge for software development companies offering quality, maintainable and interoperable products. HL7 (Health level 7) International, an international non-profit organization, defines and maintains standards related to health information systems. However, the modelling languages proposed by HL7 are far removed from standard languages and widely known by software engineers. In these lines, NDT is a software development methodology that has a support tool called NDT-Suite and is based, on the one hand, on the paradigm of model-driven engineering and, on the other hand, in UML that is a widely recognized standard language. This paper proposes an extension of the NDT methodology called MoDHE (Model Driven Health Engineering) to offer software engineers a methodology capable of modelling health information systems conforming to HL7 using UML domain models
Extended Photometry for the DEEP2 Galaxy Redshift Survey: A Testbed for Photometric Redshift Experiments
This paper describes a new catalog that supplements the existing DEEP2 Galaxy
Redshift Survey photometric and spectroscopic catalogs with ugriz photometry
from two other surveys; the Canada-France-Hawaii Legacy Survey (CFHTLS) and the
Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). Each catalog is cross-matched by position on
the sky in order to assign ugriz photometry to objects in the DEEP2 catalogs.
We have recalibrated the CFHTLS photometry where it overlaps DEEP2 in order to
provide a more uniform dataset. We have also used this improved photometry to
predict DEEP2 BRI photometry in regions where only poorer measurements were
available previously. In addition, we have included improved astrometry tied to
SDSS rather than USNO-A2.0 for all DEEP2 objects. In total this catalog
contains ~27,000 objects with full ugriz photometry as well as robust
spectroscopic redshift measurements, 64% of which have r > 23. By combining the
secure and accurate redshifts of the DEEP2 Galaxy Redshift Survey with ugriz
photometry, we have created a catalog that can be used as an excellent testbed
for future photo-z studies, including tests of algorithms for surveys such as
LSST and DES.Comment: 12 pages, 6 figures and 5 tables. Accepted to The Astrophysical
Journal Supplement. Catalogs are publicly available at
http://deep.ps.uci.edu/DR4/photo.extended.htm
New Developments in the Search for the Topology of the Universe
Multi-connected Universe models with space idenfication scales smaller than
the size of the observable universe produce topological images in the catalogs
of cosmic sources. In this review, we present the recent developments for the
search of the topology of the universe focusing on three dimensional methods.
We present the crystallographic method, we give a new lower bound on the size
of locally Euclidean multi-connected universe model of
based on this method and a quasar catalog, we discuss its successes and
failures, and the attemps to generalise it. We finally introduce a new
statistical method based on a collecting correlated pair (CCP) technique.Comment: 20 pages, 13 figures, Proceedings of the XIXth Texas meeting, Paris
14-18 december 1998, Proceedings of the XIXth Texas meeting, Eds. E. Aubourg,
T. Montmerle, J. Paul and P. Peter, article-no: 04/2
HST astrometry in the Orion Nebula Cluster: census of low-mass runaways
We present a catalog of high-precision proper motions in the Orion Nebula
Cluster (ONC), based on Treasury Program observations with the Hubble Space
Telescope's (HST) ACS/WFC camera. Our catalog contains 2,454 objects in the
magnitude range of , thus probing the stellar masses
of the ONC from 0.4 down to 0.02 over an area
of 550 arcmin. We provide a number of internal velocity dispersion
estimates for the ONC that indicate a weak dependence on the stellar location
and mass. There is good agreement with the published velocity dispersion
estimates, although nearly all of them (including ours at
and mas yr) might be biased by the overlapping young
stellar populations of Orion A. We identified 4 new ONC candidate runaways
based on HST and the Gaia DR2 data, all with masses less than 1
. The total census of known candidate runaway sources is 10 -- one of
the largest samples ever found in any Milky Way open star cluster.
Surprisingly, none of them has the tangential velocity exceeding 20 km
s. If most of them indeed originated in the ONC, it may compel
re-examination of dynamical processes in very young star clusters. It appears
that the mass function of the ONC is not significantly affected by the lost
runaways.Comment: 16 pages, 10 figures, 5 tables. Accepted for publication in A
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