The SOXS Data-Reduction Pipeline
Abstract
The SOXS is a dual-arm spectrograph (UV-VIS & NIR) and AC due to mounted on the ESO 3.6m NTT in La Silla. Designed to simultaneously cover the optical and NIR wavelength range from 350-2050 nm, the instrument will be dedicated to the study of transient and variable events with many Target of Opportunity requests expected. The goal of the SOXS Data Reduction pipeline is to use calibration data to remove all instrument signatures from the SOXS scientific data frames for each of the supported instrument modes, convert this data into physical units and deliver them with their associated error bars to the ESO SAF as Phase 3 compliant science data products, all within 30 minutes. The primary reduced product will be a detrended, wavelength and flux calibrated, telluric corrected 1D spectrum with UV-VIS + NIR arms stitched together. The pipeline will also generate QC metrics to monitor telescope, instrument and detector health. The pipeline is written in Python 3 and has been built with an agile development philosophy that includes adaptive planning and evolutionary development. The pipeline is to be used by the SOXS consortium and the general user community that may want to perform tailored processing of SOXS data. Test driven development has been used throughout the build using `extreme' mock data. We aim for the pipeline to be easy to install and extensively and clearly documented.
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@article{arxiv.2012.12678,
title = {The SOXS Data-Reduction Pipeline},
author = {David R. Young and Marco Landoni and Stephen J. Smartt and Sergio Campana and Riccardo Claudi and Pietro Schipani and Matteo Aliverti and Andrea Baruffolo and Sagi Ben-Ami and Federico Biondi and Giulio Capasso and Rosario Cosentino and Francesco D'Alessio and Paolo D'Avanzo and Ofir Hershko and Hanindyo Kuncarayakti and Matteo Munari and Giuliano Pignata and Adam Rubin and Salvatore Scuderi and Fabrizio Vitali and Jani Achrén and José Antonio Araiza-Duran and Iair Arcavi and Anna Brucalassi and Rachel Bruch and Enrico Cappellaro and Mirko Colapietro and Massimo Della Valle and Marco De Pascale and Rosario Di Benedetto and Sergio D'Orsi and Avishay Gal-Yam and Matteo Genoni and Marcos Hernandez and Jari Kotilainen and Gianluca Li Causi and Seppo Mattila and Michael Rappaport and Kalyan Radhakrishnan and Davide Ricci and Marco Riva and Bernardo Salasnich and Ricardo Zanmar Sanchez and Maximilian Stritzinger and Hector Ventura},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2012.12678},
year = {2020}
}
Comments
15 pages, 11 figures. SPIE 2020