/Intro-2-Spectra

A Series of Tutorials for analyzing high-resolution optical spectra

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Intro-2-Spectra

A Series of Tutorials for analyzing high-resolution optical spectra

Topics:

  • Opening fits files and headers of reduced spectra and wavelength solutions (see https://docs.astropy.org/en/stable/io/fits/ to get started)
  • Opening and understanding raw spectra (bias, trace, dispersion vs cross-dispersion direction), sky projection
  • Normalization and blaze function removal
  • Identifying sky emission lines, equilibrium(photospheric) features vs non-equilibrium features.
  • Signal to noise estimates from both raw and reduced spectra.

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