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| Paper: |
The JCMT SCUBA-2 Legacy Release: Unexpected Benefits and Lessons Learned |
| Volume: |
521, Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems XXVI |
| Page: |
24 |
| Authors: |
Graves, S. F.; Bell, G. S.; Berry, D. S.; Currie, M. J. |
| Abstract: |
The East Asian Observatory is currently releasing all SCUBA-2 850 μm
data taken from 2011 to 2015, re-reduced in a uniform manner with
automatically produced co-adds and catalogs. While the primary reason
for doing this release was to produce a scientifically useful data
product for our community, the process of creating it generated many
benefits for the observatory itself. We have developed improved DR
configurations, new and improved software and systems for running
(and easily re-running) various automated pipeline reductions. We
built into this a new quality assurance system now used for our
nightly reductions. The analysis of the data prior to release helped
us discover (and fix) some bugs and identify areas ripe for further
investigation. This paper will describe these side benefits, and
also discuss what attitudes and policies at the observatory ensured
they occurred. The process has also helped the observatory gain a
clearer understanding of exactly which pieces of information and
metadata are most needed by external users. We can now use this
information to improve our systems and our archive; thereby better
supporting both our own, future data releases, and our community's
use of the JCMT science archive. |
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