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Published December 2009 | Published
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The TAOS Project: High-Speed Crowded Field Aperture Photometry

Abstract

We have devised an aperture photometry pipeline for data reduction of image data from the Taiwanese-American Occultation Survey (TAOS). The photometry pipeline has high computational performance, and is capable of real-time photometric reduction of images containing up to 1000 stars, within the sampling rate of 5 Hz. The pipeline is optimized for both speed and signal-to-noise performance, and in the latter category it performs nearly as well as DAOPHOT. This paper provides a detailed description of the TAOS aperture photometry pipeline.

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© 2009 Astronomical Society of the Pacific. Received 2009 September 20; accepted 2009 October 22; published 2009 November 16. The work at National Central University was supported by grant NSC 96-2112-M-008-024-MY3. Y. I. B. acknowledges the support of National Research Foundation of Korea through grant 2009-0075376. Work at Academia Sinica was supported in part by the thematic research program AS-88-TP-A02. Work at the Harvard College Observatory was supported in part by the National Science Foundation under grant AST-0501681 and by NASA under grant NNG04G113G. S. L. M.'s work was performed under the auspices of the U.S. Department of Energy by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in part under contract W-7405-Eng-48 and by Stanford Linear Accelerator Center under contract DE-AC02-76SF00515. K. H. C.'s work was performed under the auspices of the U.S. Department of Energy by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in part under contract W-7405-Eng-48 and in part under contract DEAC52-07NA27344.

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