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The HST/WFC3 Quicklook Project: A User Interface to Hubble Space Telescope Wide Field Camera 3 Data

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 May 2017

Matthew Bourque ,
Varun Bajaj ,
Ariel Bowers ,
Michael Dulude ,
Meredith Durbin ,
Catherine Gosmeyer ,
Heather Gunning ,
Harish Khandrika ,
Catherine Martlin  and
Ben Sunnquist
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Matthew Bourque
Affiliation:
Space Telescope Science Institute, 3700 San Martin Drive, Baltimore, Maryland, USA21218 email: bourque@stsci.edu
Varun Bajaj
Affiliation:
Space Telescope Science Institute, 3700 San Martin Drive, Baltimore, Maryland, USA21218 email: bourque@stsci.edu
Ariel Bowers
Affiliation:
Space Telescope Science Institute, 3700 San Martin Drive, Baltimore, Maryland, USA21218 email: bourque@stsci.edu
Michael Dulude
Affiliation:
Space Telescope Science Institute, 3700 San Martin Drive, Baltimore, Maryland, USA21218 email: bourque@stsci.edu
Meredith Durbin
Affiliation:
Dept. of Astronomy, The University of Washington, Box 351580, U.W. Seattle, Washington, USA98195
Catherine Gosmeyer
Affiliation:
Space Telescope Science Institute, 3700 San Martin Drive, Baltimore, Maryland, USA21218 email: bourque@stsci.edu
Heather Gunning
Affiliation:
Space Telescope Science Institute, 3700 San Martin Drive, Baltimore, Maryland, USA21218 email: bourque@stsci.edu
Harish Khandrika
Affiliation:
Space Telescope Science Institute, 3700 San Martin Drive, Baltimore, Maryland, USA21218 email: bourque@stsci.edu
Catherine Martlin
Affiliation:
Space Telescope Science Institute, 3700 San Martin Drive, Baltimore, Maryland, USA21218 email: bourque@stsci.edu
Ben Sunnquist
Affiliation:
Space Telescope Science Institute, 3700 San Martin Drive, Baltimore, Maryland, USA21218 email: bourque@stsci.edu
Alex Viana
Affiliation:
Terbium Labs, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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Abstract

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The Hubble Space Telescope’s Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) instrument, comprised of two detectors, UVIS (Ultraviolet-Visible) and IR (Infrared), has been acquiring ~ 50-100 images daily since its installation in 2009. The WFC3 Quicklook project provides a means for instrument analysts to store, calibrate, monitor, and interact with these data through the various Quicklook systems: (1) a ~ 175 TB filesystem, which stores the entire WFC3 archive on disk, (2) a MySQL database, which stores image header data, (3) a Python-based automation platform, which currently executes 22 unique calibration/monitoring scripts, (4) a Python-based code library, which provides system functionality such as logging, downloading tools, database connection objects, and filesystem management, and (5) a Python/Flask-based web interface to the Quicklook system. The Quicklook project has enabled large-scale WFC3 analyses and calibrations, such as the monitoring of the health and stability of the WFC3 instrument, the measurement of ~ 20 million WFC3/UVIS Point Spread Functions (PSFs), the creation of WFC3/IR persistence calibration products, and many others.

Keywords

Hubble Space TelescopeHSTWide Field Camera 3WFC3AutomationDatabaseFilesystemWebsitePythonQuicklook
Type
Contributed Papers
Information
Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union , Volume 12 , Symposium S325: Astroinformatics , October 2016 , pp. 397 - 400
Copyright
Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2017 

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