Quality Control at ESO has seen changes with respect to its tools and the data organization and processing with the reduction pipeline recipes (EDPS). The overhaul of quality control software and data processing was driven in parts to augment the real-time science data assessment and OB grading with up-to-date calibrations.
News from ESO's Quality Control
Published: 23 Sep 2026
On request of the User Committee, the science data products used in the nighttime QC0 quality assessment are ingested into the ESO Science Archive and made available with the usual propriety restrictions. This is done for all Paranal operational instruments, but pending some final evaluations for MATISSE and SPHERE data products. Part of the QC software overhaul constitutes a new instrument health-check monitoring system. The system is now publically reachable.