OmegaCAM Science Archive

CITING USE of VDFS PROCESSED VST DATA in SCIENTIFIC PAPERS
Please note that the teams which processed and archived the data would appreciate credit for their efforts with something similar to the following wording :

" The VISTA Data Flow System pipeline processing and science archive are described in Irwin et al (2004) and Hambly et al (2008). We have used data from the Xnd data release, which is described in detail in XX et al (200X)."

VDFS technical reference papers:

VISTA data flow system: pipeline processing for WFCAM and VISTA - Irwin et al., 2004, Proceedings of the SPIE, Volume 5493, pp. 411-422 ADS link
The WFCAM Science Archive - Hambly et al., 2008, MNRAS, 384, 637; PDF from astro-ph/0711.3593, ADS link
Archiving multi-epoch data and the discovery of variables in the near infrared - Cross et al., 2009, MNRAS, 399, 1730; PDF from astro-ph/0905.3073

Final Design Review documentation set for the VDFS Science Archive project:

VDF-WFA-VSA-002: Science Requirements Analysis (issue 1) including functional requirements (also available as PDF or gzipped PostScript )
VDF-WFA-VSA-003: Management and planning (issue 1) (also available as PDF or gzipped PostScript )
VDF-WFA-VSA-004: Interface Control (issue 1) (also available as PDF or gzipped PostScript )
VDF-WFA-VSA-006: Hardware/OS/DBMS Design (issue 1) (also available as PDF or gzipped PostScript
VDF-WFA-VSA-007: Database Design (issue 1) (also available as PDF or gzipped PostScript
VDF-WFA-VSA-008: User Interface (issue 1) (also available as PDF or gzipped PostScript
VDF-WFA-VSA-009: Software Architecture Design (issue 1) (also available as PDF or gzipped PostScript )
VDF-WFA-VSA-010: Virtual Observatory integration (issue 1) (also available as PDF or gzipped PostScript )

Example usages and SQL queries:

WFAU, Institute for Astronomy,
Royal Observatory, Blackford Hill
Edinburgh, EH9 3HJ, UK

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23/4/2015