PypeIt

The Python Spectroscopic Data Reduction Pipeline. For documentation visit:

http://pypeit.readthedocs.io

and/or see our HOWTO:

and/or join our PypeIt Users Slack (the invite is recorded in this Issue: pypeit#676)

Citation:

If you use PypeIt in your research, please cite the following publications (BibTeX entries are provided below):

If there is no place to include the relevant citations in the text of the publication, please include the following acknowledgement (provided in latex and using the provided BibTeX entries):

This research made use of \ttfamily{PypeIt},\footnote{\url{https://pypeit.readthedocs.io/en/latest/}}
a Python package for semi-automated reduction of astronomical slit-based spectroscopy
\citep{pypeit:joss_pub, pypeit:zenodo}.

BibTeX

@ARTICLE{pypeit:joss_arXiv,
       author = {{Prochaska}, J. Xavier and {Hennawi}, Joseph F. and {Westfall}, Kyle B. and
         {Cooke}, Ryan J. and {Wang}, Feige and {Hsyu}, Tiffany and
         {Davies}, Frederick B. and {Farina}, Emanuele Paolo},
        title = "{PypeIt: The Python Spectroscopic Data Reduction Pipeline}",
      journal = {arXiv e-prints},
     keywords = {Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics},
         year = 2020,
        month = may,
          eid = {arXiv:2005.06505},
        pages = {arXiv:2005.06505},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
       eprint = {2005.06505},
 primaryClass = {astro-ph.IM},
       adsurl = {https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2020arXiv200506505P},
      adsnote = {Provided by the SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System}
}

@article{pypeit:joss_pub,
    doi = {10.21105/joss.02308},
    url = {https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.02308},
    year = {2020},
    publisher = {The Open Journal},
    volume = {5},
    number = {56},
    pages = {2308},
    author = {J. Xavier Prochaska and Joseph F. Hennawi and Kyle B. Westfall and Ryan J. Cooke and Feige Wang and Tiffany Hsyu and Frederick B. Davies and Emanuele Paolo Farina and Debora Pelliccia},
    title = {PypeIt: The Python Spectroscopic Data Reduction Pipeline},
    journal = {Journal of Open Source Software}
}

@MISC{pypeit:zenodo,
       author = {{Prochaska}, J. Xavier and {Hennawi}, Joseph and {Cooke}, Ryan and
         {Westfall}, Kyle and {Wang}, Feige and {EmAstro} and {Tiffanyhsyu} and
         {Wasserman}, Asher and {Villaume}, Alexa and {Marijana777} and
         {Schindler}, JT and {Young}, David and {Simha}, Sunil and
         {Wilde}, Matt and {Tejos}, Nicolas and {Isbell}, Jacob and
         {Fl{\"o}rs}, Andreas and {Sandford}, Nathan and {Vasovi{\'c}}, Zlatan and
         {Betts}, Edward and {Holden}, Brad},
        title = "{pypeit/PypeIt: Release 1.0.0}",
         year = 2020,
        month = apr,
          eid = {10.5281/zenodo.3743493},
          doi = {10.5281/zenodo.3743493},
      version = {v1.0.0},
    publisher = {Zenodo},
       adsurl = {https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2020zndo...3743493P},
      adsnote = {Provided by the SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System}
}

Contribute

We encourage anyone to help us develop the PypeIt code base to better suit your needs and to improve its algorithms. If you do so, please follow our Development Guidlines

In particular, please note our Code of Conduct.

Instruments Served

Gemini/GNIRS
Gemini/GMOS
Gemini/FLAMINGOS 2
Lick/Kast
Magellan/MagE
Magellan/Fire
MMT/BinoSpec (270 and 600 tested)
MMT/MMIRS (HK_zJ, J_zJ, and K_K tested)
MDM/OSMOS
Keck/DEIMOS (600ZD, 830G, 1200G)
Keck/KCWI (BM, BH2)
Keck/LRIS
Keck/MOSFIRE (J and Y gratings tested)
Keck/NIRES
Keck/NIRSPEC (low-dispersion)
LBT/Luci-I, Luci-II
LBT/MODS (beta)
Lick/APF (planned)
NOT/ALFOSC (grism4)
VLT/X-Shooter
VLT/FORS2 (300I, 300V)
WHT/ISIS
P200/DBSP (316/7500 on red arm, 600/4000 on blue arm)
P200/TripleSpec

Requirements

(see pypeit/requirements.txt)

python
numpy
scipy
matplotlib
astropy
ginga
h5py
future
PyYAML
linetools
IPython
scikit-learn
configobj

License (BSD-3)

(see LICENSE.rst)

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