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Published 2005 | Published
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Spitzer Space Telescope Data Processing and Algorithmic Complexity

Abstract

Automated reduction of a very large body of data from the Spitzer Space Telescope requires an intricate and very flexible software system to support more than 50 different pipelines executing on a large distributed computing cluster. Additionally, in order to correct many instrumental signatures and calibration features, a variety of complex algorithms need to be utilized to process and distribute calibrated images and spectra from nearly 5 million instrument frames that are collected by the observatory every year. A sample of the complexities that needed to be accommodated both in system architecture and design as well as signatures encountered and associated algorithms will be described.

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© 2005 Astronomical Society of the Pacific. The program described here owes its success to the contributions of many, particularly the efforts of the Downlink development team and the understanding and support of Bill Green during his tenure as the SSC manager. This work was carried out at the Spitzer Science Center, with funding from NASA under contract 1407 to Caltech and the Jet Propulsion Lab.

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