[en] The International Liquid Mirror Telescope (ILMT) is a 4-meter survey telescope constantly observing towards the zenith in the SDSS g’, r', and i’ bands. This survey telescope is designed to detect various astrophysical transients (for example, SNe, GRBs) and very faint objects like quasars and galaxies. A single scan of a 22' strip of sky contains a large amount of photometric information. To process this type of data, it becomes critical to have some tools or pipelines that handle it in an efficient and accurate way with minimal human biases. We offer a fully automated pipeline generated in Python to perform aperture and PSF photometry over the ILMT data acquired through CCD in Time Delayed Integration (TDI) mode. The instrumental magnitudes are calibrated with respect to the SDSS/PanStarrs catalog. The lightcurves from these calibrated magnitudes will characterise the objects as variable stars or rapidly decaying transients.
Disciplines :
Space science, astronomy & astrophysics
Author, co-author :
Ailawadhi, Bhavya; Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational sciencES, Nainital, India
Talat Akhunov; National University of Uzbekistan, Tashkent, Uzbekistan
Ermanno Borra; Laval University, Quebec, Canada
Monalisa Dubey; Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational sciencES, Nainital, India
Naveen Dukiya; Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational sciencES, Nainital, India
Jiuyang Fu; University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
Baldeep Grewal; University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
Paul Hickson; University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
Brajesh Kumar; Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational sciencES, Nainital, India
Kuntal Misra; Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational sciencES, Nainital, India
Vibhore Negi; Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational sciencES, Nainital, India
Kumar Pranshu; Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational sciencES, Nainital, India
Ethen Sun; University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
Surdej, Jean ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département d'astrophysique, géophysique et océanographie (AGO)
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