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TIFR-ARIES Near-Infrared Spectrometer (TANSPEC) is a spectrograph-cum-imager operating over the wavelength range $0.55 - 2.5~\mu$m. The instrument is mounted on the 3.6-m Devasthal Optical Telescope (3.6-m DOT). It offers two resolution…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-28 Varghese Reji , Joe P. Ninan , Supriyo Ghosh , Devendra K. Ojha , Saurabh Sharma

We present the design and performance of the TANSPEC, a medium-resolution $0.55-2.5~\mu$m cryogenic spectrometer and imager, now in operation at the 3.6-m Devasthal Optical Telescope (DOT), Nainital, India. The TANSPEC provides three modes…

We describe the TIFR Near Infrared Spectrometer and Imager (TIRSPEC) designed and built in collaboration with M/s. Mauna Kea Infrared LLC, Hawaii, USA, now in operation on the side port of the 2-m Himalayan Chandra Telescope (HCT), Hanle…

IRIS (InfraRed Imaging Spectrograph) is the diffraction-limited first light instrument for the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) that consists of a near-infrared (0.84 to 2.4 $\mu$m) imager and integral field spectrograph (IFS). The IFS makes…

We present a data reduction pipeline written in Python for data obtained with the near-infrared cross-dispersed echelle spectrograph, WINERED, which yields a 0.91$-$1.35 $\mu$m spectrum with the resolving power of $R_{\text{max}} \equiv…

PyIRD is a Python-based pipeline for reducing spectroscopic data obtained with IRD (InfraRed Doppler; Kotani et al. (2018)) and REACH (Rigorous Exoplanetary Atmosphere Characterization with High dispersion coronagraphy; Kotani et al.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-21 Yui Kasagi , Hajime Kawahara , Ziying Gu , Teruyuki Hirano , Takayuki Kotani , Masayuki Kuzuhara , Kento Masuda

TIFR Near Infrared Imaging Camera-II is a closed-cycle Helium cryo-cooled imaging camera equipped with a Raytheon 512 x 512 pixels InSb Aladdin III Quadrant focal plane array having sensitivity to photons in the 1-5 microns wavelength band.…

We present PyWiFeS, a new Python-based data reduction pipeline for the Wide Field Spectrograph (WiFeS). PyWiFeS consists of a series of core data processing routines built on standard scientific Python packages commonly used in astronomical…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2013-11-13 Michael J. Childress , Frédéric P. A. Vogt , Jon Nielsen , Robert G. Sharp

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

In modern-day astronomy, near-infrared, optical, and ultraviolet spectroscopy are indispensable for studying a wide range of phenomena, from measuring black hole masses to analyzing chemical abundances in stellar atmospheres. However,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-21 Raniere de Menezes , Francesco Massaro , Michela Negro , Claudia M. Raiteri , Harold Peña-Herazo , Jose A. Acosta-Pulido

Optimizing one's observing strategy while at the telescope relies on knowing the current observing conditions and the obtained data quality. In particular the latter is not straight forward with current wide-field imagers, such as the WIYN…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2013-10-21 Ralf Kotulla

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

The TIFR Near Infrared Imaging Camera-II (TIRCAM2) is being used at the Devasthal Optical Telescope (DOT) operated by Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational Sciences (ARIES), Nainital, Uttarakhand, India. In addition to the normal…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-07 Milind B. Naik , Devendra K. Ojha , Saurabh Sharma , Shailesh B. Bhagat , Savio L. D'Costa , Arpan Ghosh , Koshvendra Singh

Binospec is a high-throughput, 370 to 1000 nm, imaging spectrograph that addresses two adjacent 8' by 15' fields of view. Binospec was commissioned in late 2017 at the f/5 focus of the 6.5m MMT and is now available to all MMT observers.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-06-12 Jan Kansky , Igor Chilingarian , Daniel Fabricant , Anne Matthews , Sean Moran , Martin Paegert , J. Duane Gibson , Dallan Porter , John Roll

We present the data reduction pipeline, MEAD, for Arizona Lenslets for Exoplanet Spectroscopy (ALES), the first thermal infrared integral field spectrograph designed for high-contrast imaging. ALES is an upgrade of LMIRCam, the $1-5\,\mu$m…

In recent times, 3.6m Devasthal Optical Telescope (DOT) has installed an optical to near infra-red spectrograph, TANSPEC, which provides spectral coverage from 0.55-2.5 microns. Using TANSPEC, we have obtained a single epoch spectrum of a…

We present a data reduction pipeline (DRP) for Keck/NIRSPEC built as an addition to the PypeIt Python package. The DRP is capable of reducing multi-order echelle data taken both before and after the detector upgrade in 2018. As part of…

We present the end-to-end data reduction pipeline for SCALES (Slicer Combined with Array of Lenslets for Exoplanet Spectroscopy), the upcoming thermal-infrared, diffraction-limited imager, and low and medium-resolution integral field…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-22 Athira Unni , Steph Sallum , Peyton Benac , Michael P. Fitzgerald , Max Brodheim , Rosalie McGurk , Andy Skemer , William T. S. Deich
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