Bibcode
Cardiel, N.; Pascual, S.; Gallego, J.; Cabello, C.; Garzón, F.; Balcells, M.; Castro-Rodríguez, N.; Domínguez-Palmero, L.; Hammersley, P.; Laporte, N.; Patrick, L. R.; Pelló, R.; Prieto, M.; Streblyanska, A.
Referencia bibliográfica
Highlights on Spanish Astrophysics X, Proceedings of the XIII Scientific Meeting of the Spanish Astronomical Society held on July 16-20, 2018, in Salamanca, Spain, ISBN 978-84-09-09331-1. B. Montesinos, A. Asensio Ramos, F. Buitrago, R. Schödel, E. Villaver, S. Pérez-Hoyos, I. Ordóñez-Etxeberria (eds.) p. 605-605
Fecha de publicación:
3
2019
Número de citas
2
Número de citas referidas
1
Descripción
EMIR, the near-infrared camera and multi-object spectrograph operating
in the spectral region from 0.9 to 2.5 μm, has been commissioned at
the Nasmyth focus of the Gran Telescopio CANARIAS. One of the most
outstanding capabilities of EMIR is its multi-object spectroscopic mode
which, with the help of a robotic reconfigurable slit system, allows to
take around 53 spectra simultaneously. A data reduction pipeline,
pyemir, based on Python, is being developed in order to facilitate the
automatic reduction of EMIR data taken in both imaging and spectroscopy
mode. This package, as well as the auxiliary package numina, are both
available at GitHub (https://github.com/guaix-ucm). The user's guide is
being currently written after the experience gained analysing the
commissioning data, and will be soon available in the documentation
hosting platform Read the Docs. Focusing on the reduction of
spectroscopic data, some critical manipulations are the geometric
distortion correction and the wavelength calibration. Using a large set
of tungsten and arc calibration exposures, both calibrations have been
modelled for any arbitrary configuration of the multi-object slit
system. This model can be easily employed to obtain a preliminary
rectified and wavelength calibrated EMIR spectroscopic image without
additional calibration images. This facilitates both the on-line quick
reduction of the data at the telescope and the off-line detailed
reduction of the data by the astronomer. This work was funded by the
Spanish Programa Nacional de Astronomía y Astrofísica
under grant AYA2016-75808-R.