The GIST pipeline: A multi-purpose tool for the analysis and visualisation of (integral-field) spectroscopic data

Bittner, A.; Falcón-Barroso, J.; Nedelchev, B.; Dorta, A.; Gadotti, D. A.; Sarzi, M.; Molaeinezhad, A.; Iodice, E.; Rosado-Belza, D.; de Lorenzo-Cáceres, A.; Fragkoudi, F.; Galán-de Anta, P. M.; Husemann, B.; Méndez-Abreu, J.; Neumann, J.; Pinna, F.; Querejeta, M.; Sánchez-Blázquez, P.; Seidel, M. K.
Bibliographical reference

Astronomy and Astrophysics, Volume 628, id.A117, 14 pp.

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2019
Number of authors
19
IAC number of authors
7
Citations
72
Refereed citations
63
Description
We present a convenient, all-in-one framework for the scientific analysis of fully reduced, (integral-field) spectroscopic data. The Galaxy IFU Spectroscopy Tool (GIST) is entirely written in Python 3 and conducts all the steps from the preparation of input data to the scientific analysis and to the production of publication-quality plots. In its basic set-up, it extracts stellar kinematics, performs an emission-line analysis, and derives stellar population properties from full spectral fitting and via the measurement of absorption line-strength indices by exploiting the well-known pPXF and GandALF routines, where the latter has now been implemented in Python. The pipeline is not specific to any instrument or analysis technique and provides easy means of modification and further development, thanks to its modular code architecture. An elaborate, Python-native parallelisation is implemented and tested on various machines. The software further features a dedicated visualisation routine with a sophisticated graphical user interface. This allows an easy, fully interactive plotting of all measurements, spectra, fits, and residuals, as well as star formation histories and the weight distribution of the models. The pipeline has been successfully applied to both low- and high-redshift data from MUSE, PPAK (CALIFA), and SINFONI, and to simulated data for HARMONI and WEAVE and is currently being used by the TIMER, Fornax3D, and PHANGS collaborations. We demonstrate its capabilities by applying it to MUSE TIMER observations of NGC 1433. http://ascl.net/1907.025, http://https://abittner.gitlab.io/thegistpipeline
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