Tuesday, December 18, 2012

1212.3760 (Igor Chilingarian et al.)

Data reduction pipeline for the MMT Magellan Infrared Spectrograph    [PDF]

Igor Chilingarian, Warren Brown, Daniel Fabricant, Brian McLeod, John Roll, Andrew Szentgyorgyi
We describe principal components of the new spectroscopic data pipeline for the multi-object MMT/Magellan Infrared Spectrograph (MMIRS). The pipeline is implemented in IDL and C++. The performance of the data processing algorithms is sufficient to reduce a single dataset in 2--3 min on a modern PC workstation so that one can use the pipeline as a quick-look tool during observations. We provide an example of the spectral data processed by our pipeline and demonstrate that the sky subtraction quality gets close to the limits set by the Poisson photon statistics.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1212.3760

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