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CTN-004: Rubin Observatory Raw Data File Format

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 [1];  [2]
  1. Vera C. Rubin Observatory Project Office
  2. SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
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At the NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory we write data from the LSSTCam and LATISS instruments using FITS format with one file written per detector. Here we discuss the layout of those FITS files and describe the FITS headers.
Research Organization:
NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory
Sponsoring Organization:
U.S. National Science Foundation; U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science
DOE Contract Number:
AC02-76SF00515
OSTI ID:
3011115
Report Number(s):
Vera C. Rubin Observatory Camera Technical Note CTN-004
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

References (8)

Definition of the Flexible Image Transport System ( FITS ), version 3.0 journal November 2010
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory Data Butler and pipeline execution system conference August 2022
Tiled Image Convention for Storing Compressed Images in FITS Binary Tables preprint January 2012
LSST Commissioning Camera dataset January 2024
RTN-095: The Vera C. Rubin Observatory Data Preview 1 dataset July 2025
PSTN-019: The LSST Science Pipelines Software: Optical Survey Pipeline Reduction and Analysis Environment dataset January 2025
The LSST Camera (LSSTCam) instrument January 2025
LSST Atmospheric Transmission Imager and Slitless Spectrograph (LATISS) instrument January 2020

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