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We present the third release of the AMBER data reduction software by the JMMC. This software is based on core algorithms optimized after several years of operation. An optional graphic interface in a high level language allows the user to…

Data reduction procedures are aimed to minimize the impact of data acquisition imperfections on the measurement of data properties with a scientific meaning for the astronomer. To achieve this purpose, appropriate arithmetic manipulations…

Written in Python and utilising ParselTongue to interface with the Astronomical Image Processing System (AIPS), the e-MERLIN data reduction pipeline is intended to automate the procedures required in processing and calibrating radio…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-02-18 Megan Argo

We present in this paper an innovative data reduction method for single-mode interferometry. It has been specifically developed for the AMBER instrument, the three-beam combiner of the Very Large Telescope Interferometer, but can be derived…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 E. Tatulli , the AMBER consortium

We design the imaging data calibration and reduction software for MICADO, the First Light near-IR instrument on the Extremely Large Telescope. In this process we have hit the limit of what can be achieved with a detailed software design…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-10 Hugo Buddelmeijer , Gijs A. Verdoes Kleijn , Kieran Leschinski

Astronomical data reduction is usually done with processing pipelines that consist of a series of individual processing steps that can be executed stand-alone. These processing steps are then strung together into workflows and fed with data…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-26 Wolfram Freudling , Stefano Zampieri , Lodovico Coccato , Stanislaw Podgorski , Martino Romaniello , Andrea Modigliani , John Pritchard

Extracting stellar fundamental parameters from SPectro-Interferometric (SPI) data requires reliable estimates of observables and with robust uncertainties (visibility, triple product, phase closure). A number of fine calibration procedures…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Pierre Cruzalèbes , Yves Rabbia , Alain Jorissen , Alain Spang , Stéphane Sacuto , Ester Pasquato , Andrea Chiavassa , Olivier Chesneau , Patrick Fréville

This paper addresses alternative procedures to the ESO supplied pipeline procedures for the reduction of UVES spectra of two quasar spectra to determine the value of the fundamental constant mu = Mp/Me at early times in the universe. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Rodger I. Thompson , Jill Bechtold , John H. Black , C. J. A. P. Martins

We describe the InfraRed Data Reduction (IRDR) software package, a small ANSI C library of fast image processing routines for automated pipeline reduction of infrared (dithered) observations. We developed the software to satisfy certain…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Chris N. Sabbey , Richard G. McMahon , James R. Lewis , Mike J. Irwin

Data from complex modern astronomical instruments often consist of a large number of different science and calibration files, and their reduction requires a variety of software tools. The execution chain of the tools represents a complex…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2013-11-22 W. Freudling , M. Romaniello , D. M. Bramich , P. Ballester , V. Forchi , C. E. Garcia-Dablo , S. Moehler , M. J. Neeser

We provide a suite of public open-source spectral data-reduction software to rapidly obtain scientific products from all forms of long-slit-like spectroscopic observations. Automated SpectroPhotometric REDuction (ASPIRED) is a Python-based…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-16 Marco C. Lam , Robert J. Smith , Iair Arcavi , Iain A. Steele , Josh Veitch-Michaelis , Lukasz Wyrzykowski

We aim to provide a suite of publicly available spectral data reduction software to facilitate rapid scientific outcomes from time-domain observations. For time resolved observations, an automated pipeline frees astronomers from performance…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-12-13 Marco C Lam , Robert J Smith , Iain A Steele

Processing of raw data from modern astronomical instruments is nowadays often carried out using dedicated software, so-called "pipelines" which are largely run in automated operation. In this paper we describe the data reduction pipeline of…

ADARI (Astronomical DAta Reporting Infrastructure) is a system designed for creating graphical reports of astronomical data so that the quality of these products can be assessed. It has been designed from the ground up to be…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-02 C. E. García-Dabó , P. Beirao , Z. Kostrzewa , A. Gabasch , B. Wolff , M. White , M. Deshpande , B. Miszalski , P. Corcho-Caballero , C. Onken , A. Heng , M. González

This paper presents some of the main aspects of the software library that has been developed for the reduction of optical and infrared images, an integral part of the end-to-end survey system being built to support public imaging surveys at…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Benoit Vandame

The production of science-ready data from major solar telescopes requires expertise beyond that of the typical observer. This is a consequence of the increasing complexity of instruments and observing sequences, which require calibrations…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-12-17 J. de la Cruz Rodríguez , M. Löfdahl , P. Sütterlin , T. Hillberg , L. Rouppe van der Voort

We are reporting the updates in version 0.2.0 of the Automated SpectroPhotometric REDuction (ASPIRED) pipeline, designed for common use on different instruments. The default settings support many typical long-slit spectrometer…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-08 Marco C Lam , Robert J Smith , Josh Veitch-Michaelis , Iain A Steele , Paul R McWhirter

In this study, we present a novel automatic piano reduction method with semi-supervised machine learning. Piano reduction is an important music transformation process, which helps musicians and composers as a musical sketch for performances…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Wan Ki Wong , Ka Ho To , Chuck-jee Chau , Lucas Wong , Kevin Y. Yip , Irwin King

The newly installed Silmaril beam combiner at the CHARA array is designed to observe previously inaccessible faint targets, including Active Galactic Nuclei and T-Tauri Young Stellar Objects. Silmaril leverages cutting-edge optical design,…

Advanced LIGO's raw detector output needs to be calibrated to compute dimensionless strain h(t). Calibrated strain data is produced in the time domain using both a low-latency, online procedure and a high-latency, offline procedure. The…

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