Quality control and data flow operations of the survey instrument VIRCAM

VIRCAM is the wide field infrared camera of the VISTA survey telescope on Paranal. VIRCAM, operated by ESO since Oct. 2009, is equipped with 16 detectors and produces on average 150 Gigabytes of data per night. In the following article we describe the back-end data flow operations and in particular the quality control procedures which are applied to ESO VIRCAM data.

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