Towards an automatic processing of CCD images with CPCS 2.0

Paweł Zieliński, Lukasz Wyrzykowski, Przemysław Mikołajczyk, Krzysztof Rybicki, Zbigniew Kołaczkowski

We present a new automatic tool for time-domain astronomy – the Cambridge Photometric Calibration Server 2.0 – developed under OPTICON H2020 programme. It has been designed to respond to the need of automated rapid photometric data calibration and dissemination for transient events, primarily from Gaia space mission. CPCS has been in operation since 2013 and has been used to calibrate around 130 000 observations of hundreds of transients. We present the status of this tool’s development and demonstrate improvements made in the second version. The tests present the ability to combine CCD imaging data from multiple telescopes and a whole variety of instruments. New tool provides science-ready photometric data within minutes from observations in the automatic manner.

Proceedings of the Polish Astronomical Society, vol. 10, 190-193 (2020)

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