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Glossary of Astro-WISE concepts, services, applications and terminology
| Name | Description | Link |
|---|---|---|
| Aladin | Virtual Observatory image and catalogue display tool | http://aladin.u-strasbg.fr/ |
| astrometry pipeline | astrometric solution | astrometry howto |
| Awe Associations | associating astronomical objects in different sourcelists- creates links in database | See section 13.4 of the Manual.pdf |
| Awe on-line documentation | manual and how-tos | http://doc.astro-wise.org |
| Awe prompt / Awe web prompt | customized Python interpreter (account required) | web prompt: http://process.astro-wise.org/AWE |
| Awe Sourcelists | SExtractor catalogs as stored in the database | sourcelist howto |
| bias pipeline | using bias frames and overscan regions | bias howto |
| CALTs | calibration file timestamp / validation tool | http://calts.astro-wise.org/ |
| calibrated science images archive | reduced science images accessible in dbviewer | subsection of dbviewer |
| co-addition of multiple images | weighted stacking of images | http://process.astro-wise.org/ |
| comma separated values from archive | archive output can be saved in CSV format | see "Export options" at top of dbviewer query form (sourcelist example) |
| customizing Awe | the concept of Context organizes viewing/processing data in (and for) projects | context howto |
| dbviewer | database viewer - web based html GUI for listing, retrieving, viewing any Awe datebase item | http://dbview.astro-wise.org/ |
| distributed (GRID) processing | process jobs at any user-specified Awe cluster or node via command-line or web-interface |
dpu howto or target processor |
| object viewer | view full data lineage of any database item | "objectview" link in dbview result page (obj_ID column): example |
| global astrometry | astrometric solutions involving several (up to all) fields | gastrom howto |
| global photometry | photometric solutions involving several (up to all) fields | pending |
| How-to | concise help pages | http://doc.astro-wise.org |
| image cut-out server | get PNG or FITS cut-outs of images | pending |
| image pipeline | the process from raw images into calibrated images | image pipeline howto |
| image preview | "Picture" button in filename column of dbviewer results page | example |
| ingest raw data into archive | the first step in Awe processing | ingest howto |
| MyDB | personal context in the database, where you have delete privileges | context howto |
| Odoco | OmegaCAM DOcument COntrol system under configuration control CVS | example document layout (pdf) |
| on-the-fly reprocessing / target processor | process automatically when user requests a target (account required for processing) |
http://process.astro-wise.org/ |
| photometry pipeline | derive a photometric solution from standard field data | photometry howto |
| photometry / secondary standards | Astro-Wise uses extended equatorial Landolt fields for photometric calibration | photomprogressreport.pdf |
| photo-z | photometric redshifts tools | pending |
| Pydoc server | Python code viewed as HTML | http://doc.astro-wise.org/ |
| query archive | the database can be queried from the Awe prompt or the dbviewer |
query howto or dbviewer |
| quality control in Awe | verify(), compare() and inspect() methods | howto quality control of astrometry photometric catalog inspect inspect section of photometry howto |
| raw data archive | raw data accessible from dbviewer | raw calibration raw science |
| run SWarp | SWarp handles resampling/coadding of images | regrid howto coadd howto |
| run SExtractor | SExtractor is used to create SourceLists | sourcelist howto |
| sky subtraction in Awe | optional sky subtraction during data reduction | sky subtraction howto (pending) |
| source code repository | uses Git | http://gitlab.astro-wise.org/ |
| sql query to archive | "Freeform search" box in dbviewer result page | example |
| surface photometry Galfit | Awe contains surface photometry tools based on the Galfit program | pending |
| surface photometry Galphot | Awe contains surface photometry tools based on the Galphot program | pending |
| survey data reduction status visualisation | status viewable via "select" link near date fields in target processor | http://process.astro-wise.org/ |
| target processing | request driven processing (account required for processing) | http://process.astro-wise.org/ |
| time and timestamp conventions | dates and times are expressed in UTC throughout the Astro-Wise system | Date/Time howto |
| trend analysis in Awe | tools to study time dependency of data items in database | trend analysis howto |
| VODIA | Difference Image Analysis to find Variable Objects | pending |
| VOTable produced from archive | archive output can be saved in VOTable format | see "Export options" at top of dbviewer query form (sourcelist example) |
| weights in Awe | the Awe weighting scheme | weight scheme |