The ESO Science Data Products Forum
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Background and Purpose
The
ESO Science Data Products Forum is a platform for sharing ideas,
methods, software and data to assist with the production of science data
products from ESO telescopes. The forum is a service for the ESO community.
Contributions are by general users of the ESO instruments. While ESO monitors
the contents of the forum and will remove wrong information when it comes to
our attention, we can not guarantee that information provided here is correct.
Software programs or calibration data posted in this forum are neither tested,
endorsed nor supported by ESO. This also applies to posts by users with ESO
affiliation. Official help for users is provided by the
ESO User Support Department.
The official ESO data reduction pipelines and documentation can be
down loaded here,
their status is described in the
quality control
pages.
How to use this forum
We encourage posts about any topic related to the reduction, calibration and
analysis of science data from ESO instruments. Posts might simply describe
problems encountered with the data reduction, or offer solutions to such
problems. Software, calibration data or documents up to 100MB in size can be
attached to any post.
This forum is not meant to distribute scientific results or data
products to the community. Science data products are distributed by the
ESO archive and can be contributed
by contacting the
External
Data Products Group.
Signing on
It is necessary to sign on to the ESO User Portal before using this forum. If
you already have signed on, you can directly go to the
forum index
and select the desired forum. Otherwise, following that link will redirect you
to the sign-on page.
The link "My Profile" at the top of the pages can be used to reveal additional
information to other users of the forum and customize some aspects of the
forum interface.
Posting a message
Messages can be posted by starting a "new topic" or via "post reply" to an
existing topic. Before posting any message in the forum, please take the time
to read through the following short instructions.
- You can post questions and requests for information as well as
solutions found for a particular problem. In both cases, before
posting a message, the existing posts should be reviewed first. If a
related discussion exists, please attach your message to that
topic.
- The forums are organized by categories. There are separate
categories for VLT and La Silla instruments, as well as non-instrument
specific categories for software, calibration and miscellaneous
topics. Please make sure to post to the most appropriate forum.
- If you post any scripts or other software, please provide some
documentation and specify the requirements to run this software, such
as the exact version of the environment used for testing. Every
software should be accompanied by at least one set of test data which
works with the software.
- If you post any calibration data, please specify exactly to what
instrument configuration it applies, such the exact date of the data
it was tested on. Also, please provide at least one data set to which
the calibration data apply.
