A pipeline for the ROTSE-IIId archival data

作者：Gucsav Bulent B; Yesilyaprak Cahit^*; Yerli Sinan K; Aksaker Nazim; Kiziloglu Umit; Coker Deniz; Dikicioglu Elanur; Aydin Mustafa E

来源：Experimental Astronomy, 2012, 33(1): 197-209.

DOI：10.1007/s10686-011-9283-9

• Software: pipeline
• Methods: data analysis
• Telescopes: ROTSE-IIId

We have constructed a new, fast, robust and reliable pipeline to detect variable stars from the ROTSE-IIId archival data. Turkish share of ROTSE-III archive contains approximately one million objects from a large field of view (1.85 degrees) and it considerably covers a large portion of northern sky (delta %26gt; -25 degrees). The unfiltered ROTSE-III magnitude of the objects ranges from 7.7 to 16.9. The main stages of the new pipeline are as follows: Source extraction, astrometry of the objects, light curve generation and inhomogeneous ensemble photometry. A high performance computing (HPC) algorithm has also been implemented into the pipeline where we had a good performance even on a personal computer. Running the algorithms of the pipeline on a cluster decreases analysis time significantly from weeks to hours. The pipeline is especially tested against long period variable stars with periods of a few hundred days (e.g Mira and SR) and variables having periods starting from a few days to a few hundred days were detected.

• 出版日期2012-3