CUBES (Cassegrain U-Band Efficient Spectrograph) is the recently approved high-efficiency VLT spectrograph aimed to observe the sky in the UV ground-based region (305-400 nm) with a high-resolution mode (~20K) and a low-resolution mode (~5K). In this paper we will briefly describe the requirements and the design of the several software packages involved in the project, namely the instrument control software, the exposure time calculator, the end-to-end simulator, and the data reduction software suite. We will discuss how the above mentioned blocks cooperate to build up a "software ecosystem" for the CUBES instrument, and to support the users from the proposal preparation to the science-grade data products.
@article{arxiv.2209.07294,
title = {CUBES and its software ecosystem: instrument simulation, control, and data processing},
author = {Giorgio Calderone and Roberto Cirami and Guido Cupani and Paolo Di Marcantonio and Mariagrazia Franchini and Matteo Genoni and Mikolaj Kaluszyński and Marco Landoni and Florian Rothmaier and Andrea Scaudo and Rodolfo Smiljanic and Ingo Stilz and Julian Stürmer and Orlando Verducci},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2209.07294},
year = {2022}
}