Termo Descrição
CTIO

Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory (where the Blanco Telescope and the DECam are located, in Chile, near from La Serena.)

DaCHS

Or Gavo-Dachs, is a software developed by the German Astrophysical Virtual Observatory. We use it to ingest the catalogues into the database using a fast booster.

Data Source

A collection of tables which defines the pipeline input data, datasources were removed from the portal implementation in a recent refactoring of the Search Engine component, thus we avoid using this word.

DES Data Release

Data Releases are produced by DESDM, there are test, preliminary and annual releases

DECam

Supercâmera de 570 Mpix, instalada no telescópio Blanco de 4m, localizado no Cerro Tololo Interamerican Observatory, Chile, criada para servir ao DES.

DESI

Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument – espectrógrafo – levantamento astronômico internacional com uso de espectroscopia

DESDM

DES Data Management group based on NCSA responsible for reducing DECam data

DEVEL2

Development server

DNF

Galaxy photometric redshift by Directional Neighbourhood Fitting

DOCDB

Document Data Base – Um repositório de documentos onde os cientistas postam relatórios, apresentações, … Tem 2 docDBs: o do DES e o do LIneA