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| Lehrstuhl für Astrophysik |
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Prof. Dr. Rolf Chini |
| Lehrstuhl für Astronomie |
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Prof. Dr. Ralf-Jürgen Dettmar |
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Widefield Imaging Project |
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The following pages describe a join project between the IAEF (Institut für Astrophysik und Extraterrestrische
Forschung) as well as the Sternwarte of the University Bonn and the AIRUB (Astronomisches Institut of the Ruhr-University Bochum).
The aim of the project is to build up an data analysing center for of optical wide field imaging data.
The development of new, large mosaic CCDs for widefield imaging (like WFI@ESO/MPG 2.2 m, or the NOAO wide field imagers) give astronomers a tool to start high-flying observing projekts in many fields of
research, like galactic and extragalactic astrophysics, cosmolgy, and interstellar medium astrophysics.
At the same time new data archives are currently being developed and implemented which allow to design science projects without any new observations
(virtual observatories). The scientific success of such projects is strongly related to the feasibility to analyse these special data sets. This leads us to two major
topics for this project:
- realisation of sophisticated scientific projects using extremely large data sets generated by wide-field cameras
- enhancement of the data analysing tools especially taylored for the data set coming from wide-field cameras
At the moment we have run several science projects using theide Field Imager (WFI) at the ESO/MPG 2.2m telscope at La Silla (Chile)
and the NOAO Wide field imagers. In combination with the astrophysical
goals we use these data as test beds to optimize handling and analysis
of large data sets in preparation of the much bigger CCD mosaics like OMEGACAM at the new VLT Survey Telescope (VST) and the VISTA telescope
at Paranal observatory.
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