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CITING USE of VDFS PROCESSED VISTA DATA in SCIENTIFIC PAPERS
Please note that the teams which processed and archived the data would appreciate credit for their efforts with something similar to the following wording :

" The VISTA Data Flow System pipeline processing and science archive are described in Irwin et al (2004), Hambly et al (2008) and Cross et al. (2012). We have used data from the Xnd data release, which is described in detail in XX et al (200X)."

• VDFS technical reference papers:
• The VISTA Science Archive - Cross et al., 2012, A&A, 548A, 119 - ADS link
• VISTA data flow system: pipeline processing for WFCAM and VISTA - Irwin et al., 2004, Proceedings of the SPIE, Volume 5493, pp. 411-422 ADS link
• The WFCAM Science Archive - Hambly et al., 2008, MNRAS, 384, 637; ADS link
• Archiving multi-epoch data and the discovery of variables in the near infrared - Cross et al., 2009, MNRAS, 399, 1730; ADS link
• The VISTA ZYJHKs photometric system: calibration from 2MASS - Gonzalez-Fernandez et al., 2018, MNRAS, 474, 5459 ADS link


• Final Design Review documentation set for the VDFS Science Archive project:
• VDF-WFA-VSA-002: Science Requirements Analysis (issue 1) including functional requirements (also available as PDF or gzipped PostScript )
• VDF-WFA-VSA-003: Management and planning (issue 1) (also available as PDF or gzipped PostScript )
• VDF-WFA-VSA-004: Interface Control (issue 1) (also available as PDF or gzipped PostScript )
• VDF-WFA-VSA-006: Hardware/OS/DBMS Design (issue 1) (also available as PDF or gzipped PostScript
• VDF-WFA-VSA-007: Database Design (issue 1) (also available as PDF or gzipped PostScript
• VDF-WFA-VSA-008: User Interface (issue 1) (also available as PDF or gzipped PostScript
• VDF-WFA-VSA-009: Software Architecture Design (issue 1) (also available as PDF or gzipped PostScript )
• VDF-WFA-VSA-010: Virtual Observatory integration (issue 1) (also available as PDF or gzipped PostScript )


• Example usages and SQL queries:
• WFCAM Science Archive usage examples
• Example SQL queries from Section 4.2 of "The WFCAM Science Archive" (Hambly et al., 2008 - see above)
• PDF 3D Extinction Maps in the WFAU Archives