Tutorial 1-S
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With the advent of modern wide-field surveys in different wavelength domains and wide availability of mosaic detectors on ground-based and space telescopes, some of the important challenges are: how to visualize the data and make it easily accessible; how to process multi-wavelength datasets originating from different facilities and having different depth, resolution, and coverage in a uniform way to assemble source catalogs, which would be useful for science. In our tutorial we will present a suite of state-of-the-art technological solutions and algorithms to perform efficient (post-)processing and analysis of wide-field images and present them in a visually appealing way.
Primary learning objectives The audience will learn how to:
- Access wide-field survey and archival images using VO protocols from Python, download cutout images
- Reproject the cutouts, post-process them (creating RGB color images, perform de-noising and color enhancements)
- Configure and run modern image analysis software on them (SourceExtractor++) and create catalogs of point and extended sources
- Generate HIPS maps to display in Aladin/AladinLite (including a web-page integration)