The GALANTE photometric survey of the northern Galactic plane: Project description and pipeline

JMA, GH, and HGE acknowledge support from the Spanish Government Ministerio de Ciencia through grant PGC2018-095 049-B-C22. EJA and AL-G acknowledge support from the Spanish Government Ministerio de Ciencia through grant PGC2018-095 049-B-C21 and from the State Agency for Research of the Spanish Government Ministerio de Ciencia through the ‘Center of Excellence Severo Ochoa’ award for the Instituto de Astrofisica de Andalucia (SEV-2017-0709). The GALANTE team at the Centro de Astrobiologia acknowledges financial support from the Science and Operations Department of the European Space Agency – Contract Number 4 000 126 507. RHB acknowledges support from the ESAC Faculty Visitor Program. Funding for OAJ, UPAD, and CEFCA has been provided by the Governments of Spain and Aragon through the Fondo de Inversiones de Teruel; the Aragonese Government through the Research Groups E96, E103, and E16_17R; the Spanish Government Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovacion y Universidades (MCIU/AEI/FEDER, UE) with grantPGC2018-097 585-B-C21; the Spanish Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad (MINECO/FEDER, UE) with grants AYA2015-66 211-C2-1-P, AYA2015-66 211-C2-2, AYA2012-30 789, and ICTS-2009-14; and the European FEDER funding with grants FCDD10-4E-867 and FCDD13-4E-2685. PRTC acknowledges financial support from Fundacao de Amparo a Pesquisa do Estado de Sao Paulo (FAPESP) process number 2018/05 392-8 and CNPq process number 310 041/2018-0. The main source of data for this paper is the JAST80 telescope at the Observatorio Astrofisico de Javalambre, Teruel, Spain (owned, managed, and operated by the Centro de Estudios de Fisica del Cosmos de Aragon). As detailed in this paper, the initial part of the reduction and astrometric calibration was done by the OAJ Data Processing and Archiving Unit (UPAD) and the main part of the reduction and calibration was done at the Centro de Astrobiologia. In addition to the JAST80 data, two other types of data products have been used as sources for the catalogue generation and calibration: [1] from the European Space Agency (ESA) mission Gaia (https://www.cosmos.esa.int/gaia), processed by the Gaia Data Processing and Analysis Consortium (DPAC; https://www.cosmos.esa.int/web/gaia/dpac/consortium). Funding for the DPAC has been provided by national institutions, in particular the institutions participating in the Gaia Multilateral Agreement. [2] From the Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS), which is a joint project of the University of Massachusetts and the Infrared Processing and Analysis Center/California Institute of Technology, funded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the National Science Foundation, where the word ‘National’ refers to the United States of America. No optically reflecting surface with a size larger than the height of the tallest of the authors was required to write this paper.