Published August 1, 2014
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The RoboPol pipeline and control system
Abstract
We describe the data reduction pipeline and control system for the RoboPol project. The RoboPol project is monitoring the optical R-band magnitude and linear polarization of a large sample of active galactic nuclei that is dominated by blazars. The pipeline calibrates and reduces each exposure frame, producing a measurement of the magnitude and linear polarization of every source in the 13 arcmin × 13 arcmin field of view. The control system combines a dynamic scheduler, real-time data reduction, and telescope automation to allow high-efficiency unassisted observations.
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© 2014 The Authors. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Society. Accepted 2014 January 21. Received 2014 January 15; in original form 2013 November 15. First published online June 16, 2014. The RoboPol project is a collaboration between Caltech in the USA, MPIfR in Germany, Toruń Centre for Astronomy in Poland, the University of Crete/FORTH in Greece, and IUCAA in India. The University of Crete group acknowledges support by the 'RoboPol' project, which is implemented under the 'Aristeia' Action of the 'Operational Programme Education and Lifelong Learning' and is co-funded by the European Social Fund (ESF) and Greek National Resources, and by the European Commission Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) through grants PCIG10-GA-2011-304001 'JetPop' and PIRSES-GA-2012-31578 'EuroCal'. This research was supported in part by NASA grant NNX11A043G and NSF grant AST-1109911, and by the Polish National Science Centre, grant number 2011/01/B/ST9/04618. KT acknowledges support by the European Commission Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) through the Marie Curie Career Integration Grant PCIG-GA-2011-293531 'SFOnset'. MB acknowledges support from the International Fulbright Science and Technology Award. TH was supported in part by the Academy of Finland project number 267324. This research made use of ASTROPY, http://www.astropy.org, a communitydeveloped core PYTHON package for astronomy (Astropy Collaboration 2013). IM is supported for this research through a stipend from the International Max Planck Research School (IMPRS) for Astronomy and Astrophysics at the Universities of Bonn and Cologne.Attached Files
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- PCIG10-GA-2011-304001
- Marie Curie Fellowship
- PIRSES-GA-2012-31578
- European Research Council (ERC)
- NNX11A043G
- NASA
- AST-1109911
- NSF
- 2011/01/B/ST9/04618
- National Science Centre (Poland)
- PCIG-GA-2011-293531
- Marie Curie Fellowship
- International Fulbright Science and Technology Award
- 267324
- Academy of Finland
- International Max Planck Research School (IMPRS) for Astronomy and Astrophysics
- European Social Fund
- Greek National Resources
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