Jan 5 – 9, 2026
The University of Hong Kong
Asia/Hong_Kong timezone

An introduction to the 2.5m Wide Field Survey Telescope: data system and recent progress

CC07
Jan 6, 2026, 3:02 PM
12m
Talk CC07: New Facilities and Astronomical Instrumentation Contributed talks

Speaker

Prof. Lulu Fan (University of Science and Technology of China)

Description

The Wide Field Survey Telescope (WFST) is a dedicated photometric surveying facility being built jointly by University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) and the Purple Mountain Observatory (PMO). It is equipped with a 2.5-meter diameter primary mirror, an active optics system, and a mosaic CCD camera with 0.73 gigapixels on the primary focal plane for high-quality image capture over a 6.5-square-degree field of view. WFST has been installed near the summit of Saishiteng Mountain in the western China. WFST has presented its first light on September 17th, 2023, and the telescope is the stage of normal survey. In this talk, I will introduce the data system of WFST including the data infrastructure and the real-time data reduction pipeline. I will also introduce several tools which we are developing, including real/bogus classification, early light curve classification and the solar system searching.

Author

Prof. Lulu Fan (University of Science and Technology of China)

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