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hFig. 1 Locations of the 158 Smith et al. (2002) primary standards (asterisks) and the 64 fields of the southern extension to the primary
standard star network (unfilled squares; see 5). Circled symbols indicate u'g'r'i'z' standard stars or fields for which there is currently
Landolt UBV RIc photometry (Landolt 1973, 1983, 1992) or for which Landolt is currently obtaining UBV RIc photometry (Landolt,
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h A , 'AFig.2 Locations of the SDSS secondary patches in equatorial coordinates (Aitoff projection): (black) Northern SDSS patches, (red)
Southern SDSS patches, and (green) SEGUE patches. (SEGUE is part of the Sloan extension, or SDSS-II, and is discussed in 5.)
and DoPHOT (Schechter et al. 1993), to name but a few. ware ( 3), the MTP IPE-based semi-automated PT data pro-
Thus, the SDSS imaging and photometric calibration pipelinestessing factory ( 4), and other SDSS-related projects us-
have more in common with such special-purpose software ing MTPIPE ( 5); in 6 we comment on future plans for
packages as the ESO Imaging Survey pipeline (Nonino et MTPIPE.
al. 1999), the INT Wide Field Camera pipeline (Irwin &
Lewis 2001), the VLT Survey Telescope pipeline (Grado et In closing, we note that, although the SDSS magnitudes
al. 2004), and the Liverpool Telescope Gamma Ray Burst and colors are shown without primes (ugriz), the magni-
pipeline (Guidorzi et al. 2006). tudes of the primary standard stars are shown with primesThe topic of the current paper is MTPIPE. In the fol-
lowing sections, we will discuss in turn MTPIPE's compo-
nent packages ( 2), validation tests of the MTPIPE soft-(ugriz). This is no accident. The primed system is de-
fined in the natural system of the USNO-1.0m, its CCD,
and its set of SDSS filters. The SDSS magnitudes, however,
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Tucker, D. L.; Kent, S.; Richmond, M. W.; Annis, J.; Smith, J. A.; Allam, S. S. et al. The Sloan Digital Sky Survey Monitor Telescope Pipeline, article, August 1, 2006; Batavia, Illinois. (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc881890/m1/3/: accessed April 24, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.