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		| Paper: | Compression of Mosaic CCD Images with CompFITS2 |  
		| Volume: | 216, Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems IX |  
		| Page: | 547 |  
		| Authors: | Gaudet, S.; Véran, J.-P.; Delisle, D.; Pirenne, B. |  
		| Abstract: | The advent of large CCD mosaics is creating a challenge for archive centers. With nightly production rates in excess of 20 GB/night, it is necessary to have efficient methods to reduce the size of the data on archive media while preserving the information content. We report here on recent improvements to the compFITS (Véran & Wright 1994) non-lossy astronomical data compression method that will allow to efficiently address this challenge. |  
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