Cosmobook: an environment for handling large and complex data sets in panoramic photometry

• Grant number: 11/21625-3
• Support Opportunities: Research Grants - Visiting Researcher Grant - International
• Start date: February 01, 2012
• End date: February 29, 2012
• Field of knowledge: Physical Sciences and Mathematics - Astronomy - Extragalactic Astrophysics
• Principal Investigator: Reinaldo Ramos de Carvalho
• Grantee: Reinaldo Ramos de Carvalho
• Visiting researcher: Francesco La Barbera
• Visiting researcher institution: Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF), Italy
• Host Institution: Centro de Ciências Exatas e Tecnológicas. Universidade Cruzeiro do Sul (UNICSUL). São Paulo , SP, Brazil

Abstract

The goal of the present project is to engineering 2DPHOT, complementing the package with the required tools to process the large photometric data-sets provided by current and next-generation wide-field surveys. Specifically, we plan to fulfill the following tasks: bulge/disk decomposition; PSF modelling and database modeling for the SDSS and UKIDSS data being processed. During the visit we also plan in writing the draft of a large paper describing the reprocessing of SDSS and UKIDSS, which represents a major effort. This database will be available to the international astronomical community. (AU)