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Multi-aperture Photometry Pipeline for DEEP-South Data

  • Chang, Seo-Won;Byun, Yong-Ik;Kim, Myung-Jin;Moon, Hong-Kyu;Yim, Hong-Suh;Shin, Min-Su;Kang, Young-Woon
    • The Bulletin of The Korean Astronomical Society
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    • v.41 no.1
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    • pp.56.2-56.2
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    • 2016
  • We present a multi-aperture photometry pipeline for DEEP-South (Deep Ecliptic Patrol of the Southern Sky) time-series data, written in C. The pipeline is designed to do robust high-precision photometry and calibration of non-crowded fields with a varying point-spread function, allowing for the wholesale search and characterization of both temporal and spatial variabilities. Our time-series photometry method consists of three parts: (i) extracting all point sources with several pixel/blind parameters, (ii) determining the optimized aperture for each source where we consider whether the measured flux within the aperture is contaminated by unwanted artifacts, and (iii) correcting position-dependent variations in the PSF shape across the mosaic CCD. In order to provide faster access to the resultant catalogs, we also utilize an efficient indexing technique using compressed bitmap indices (FastBit). Lastly, we focus on the development and application of catalog-based searches that aid the identification of high-probable single events from the indexed database. This catalog-based approach is still useful to identify new point-sources or moving objects in non-crowded fields. The performance of the pipeline is being tested on various sets of time-series data available in several archives: DEEP-South asteroid survey and HAT-South/MMT exoplanet survey data sets.

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Image quality assessment of color LCD monitors by polychromatic modulation transfer function (다색광전달함수를 사용한 컬러 LCD 모니터의 광학적 상평가법)

  • Song, Jong-Sup;Jo, Jae-Heung;Hong, Sung-Mok;Lee, Yun-Woo;Yang, Ho-Soon;Cho, Hyun-Mo;Lee, In-Won
    • Korean Journal of Optics and Photonics
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    • v.16 no.1
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    • pp.63-70
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    • 2005
  • We propose a method for evaluating the image quality of color liquid crystal display(LCD) monitors by using the polychromatic modulation transfer function(PMTF), which is calculated from the modulation transfer function(MTF) weighted by the overall color response of the system including the test LCD monitor. We confirm that experimental results using the PMTF agree well with simulated results of the PMTF of a color LCD monitor by using three bar targets with different amplitudes and three elementary colors such as red(R), green(G), and blue(B). As a results, we should choose the PMTF instead of the white color MTF or monochromatic MTF in order to evaluate correctly the image quality of color LCD monitors.

On the long-term stability of the Y4KCam shutter

  • Lee, Jae-Woo
    • The Bulletin of The Korean Astronomical Society
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    • v.40 no.1
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    • pp.82.1-82.1
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    • 2015
  • We investigate the long-term spatial drift of the center and the temporal variation of the shutter delay time map of Y4KCam mounted on the CTIO 1.0m telescope. We have collected shutter delay time maps for over 7 years as a part of long-term survey program. We find that the center of the shutter delay time map can drift up to $450{\mu}m$ on the CCD. This effect can result in a small amount of error unless the proper shutter delay time correction, but it does not appear to cause any significant problems in photometric measurements. We obtain the mean value of the shutter delay time of $69.1{\pm}0.9$ msec and find no temporal variation of the shutter delay time of Y4KCam for over 7 years, indicative of the mechanical stability of the shutter. We suggest that using a master shutter delay time correction frame would be sufficient to achieve high precision photometry and this does not add up errors more than ~ 2.5 mmag across the CCD frame with exposure times longer than 1 sec.

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BLUE STRAGGLER STARS IN THE GLOBULAR CLUSTER M53

  • REY SOO-CHANG;LEE YOUNG-WOOK;CHUN MUN-SUK;BYUN YONG-IK
    • Journal of The Korean Astronomical Society
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    • v.29 no.spc1
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    • pp.137-138
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    • 1996
  • The first large-format CCD color-magnitude diagram (CMD) in the B and V passbands is presented for the Galactic globular cluster M53 (NGC 5024). We have discovered 117 new blue straggler (BS) candidates in the field of M53. The analysis of bright BS stars (V <19.0) clearly shows a bimodal radial distribution, with a high frequency in the inner and outer regions. The distribution is similar to that found in M3, a globular cluster with similar central density and concentration.

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DOUBLE PEAKED OUTBURSTS OF THE BLAZAR OJ 287 IN 1994 - 1996

  • ARIMOTO JUN'ICHI;SADAKANE Kozo;HONDA SATOSHI;TANABE KAZUHITO
    • Journal of The Korean Astronomical Society
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    • v.29 no.spc1
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    • pp.107-108
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    • 1996
  • VRI bands CCD photometric observations of the BL Lac object OJ 287 have been carried out during the period from October, 1994 to May, 1996. OJ 287 underwent two major outbursts during our observations. The first peak (V14.0 mag.) occurred in the first half of November, 1994 and faded out to 16.5 mag within 150 days. The second peak (14.0 mag.) was observed in late December, 1995. The latter peak continued at nearly the same brightness until May, 1996. Such a long lasting outburst has never been reported for OJ 287. Color indices (V - R and V-I) remained nearly constant during the outbursts.

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