SHIPS is a high-contrast imaging pipeline specialising in the study of massive stars. It includes all necessary routines to fully analyse high-contrast imaging frames taken with SPHERE: it enables the detection and position of potential companion candidates and their spectrum extraction.
SHIPS bridges the gaps between the image processing algorithms from the state-of-the-art software VIP (https://github.com/carlgogo/vip-tutorial) and the scientific user. It aims to be a simple to use reduction pipeling to analyse and process images.
It is still under active development and is modified daily. Currently at version 1.0.
VIP is a package/pipeline for angular, reference star and spectral differential imaging for exoplanet/disk detection through high-contrast imaging. VIP is being developed in Python 3+.
Documentation for VIP can be found in https://vip.readthedocs.io/.