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Involved people at OAB: Bregoli, Lolli, Marchesini, Montegriffo.
The computer center staff has carried on other activities during 1999. Among
them:
- Participation to ESO-VLT projects. Personnel of the computer center are collaborating
in the ESO-VLT VIMOS project, developing software for the data reduction. The
software will be integrated in the automatic pipe-line procedure to provide
completely calibrated data from the instrument. The software developed addresses
the imaging data reduction and the astrometric correction.
- Original software for data analysis in digital photometry in crowded fields
and variable star data analysis.
In the field of variable stars data analysis the programs GRATIS (variable stars
analysis), VARFIND (identification and analysis of candidate variable starts
in big data set), VARCAT (variable starts archive on the local alpha workstation
network) and ATMOS (Baade-Wesselink method applied to photometric data from
variable stars).
In the crowded fields digital photometry subject, the CATAPACK program (management
of photometrics catalogues) has been developed and automatic pipelines have
been written for the study of the completeness factor and photometric analysis
on HST data set.