Most of the solar physicists use very expensive software for data reduction and visualization. We present hereafter a reliable freeware solution based on the Python language. This is made possible by the association of the latter with a small set of additional libraries developed in the scientific community. It provides then a very powerful and economical alternative to other interactive data languages. Although it can also be used for any kind of post-processing of data, we demonstrate the capabities of such a set of freeware tools using THeMIS observations of the second solar spectrum.
@article{arxiv.0712.1522,
title = {Freeware solutions for spectropolarimetric data reduction},
author = {F. Paletou and R. Rezaei and L. Leger},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0712.1522},
year = {2007}
}
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4 pages, 2 figures (to appear in the Procs. of Solar Polarization Workshop #5, eds. Berdyugina, Nagendra and Ramelli)