MUSE, the Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer, is a 2nd generation integral-field spectrograph under final assembly to see first light at the Very Large Telescope in 2013. By capturing ~ 90000 optical spectra in a single exposure, MUSE represents a challenge for data reduction and analysis. We summarise here the main features of the Data Reduction System, as well as some of the tools under development by the MUSE consortium and the DAHLIA team to handle the large MUSE datacubes (about 4x?10^8 pixels) to recover the original astrophysical signal.
@article{arxiv.1210.0709,
title = {Reduction and analysis of MUSE data},
author = {J. Richard and R. Bacon and P. M. Weilbacher and O. Streicher and L. Wisotzki and E. C. Herenz and E. Slezak and M. Petremand and A. Jalobeanu and C. Collet and M. Louys and the MUSE and DAHLIA teams},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1210.0709},
year = {2012}
}
Comments
Proceedings of the 2012 week of the French Society of Astronomy & Astrophysics (SF2A) held in Nice, June 5th-8th