Easylife: the data reduction and survey handling system for VIPERS

TL;DR

Easylife is an automated, scalable software system designed for efficient data reduction, survey monitoring, and data sharing in the VIPERS spectroscopic survey, with adaptable features for other projects.

Contribution

The paper introduces Easylife, a comprehensive, modular software environment that automates data processing and survey management, enhancing efficiency and reliability in large astronomical surveys.

Findings

High reliability of data reduction results

Effective survey progress monitoring

Flexible adaptation to different projects

Abstract

We present Easylife, the software environment developed within the framework of the VIPERS project for automatic data reduction and survey handling. Easylife is a comprehensive system to automatically reduce spectroscopic data, to monitor the survey advancement at all stages, to distribute data within the collaboration and to release data to the whole community. It is based on the OPTICON founded project FASE, and inherits the FASE capabilities of modularity and scalability. After describing the software architecture, the main reduction and quality control features and the main services made available, we show its performance in terms of reliability of results. We also show how it can be ported to other projects having different characteristics.