PySALT: The SALT science pipeline

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7737, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Crawford, Steven M ^a,b   Still, Martin ^c   Schellart, Pim ^a,d   Balona, Luis ^a   Buckley, David A H ^a,b   Dugmore, Garith ^a   Gulbis, Amanda A S ^a,b   Kniazev, Alexei ^a,b   Kotze, Marissa ^a,e   Loaring, Nicola ^a,b   Nordsieck, Kenneth H ^f   Pickering, Timothy E ^a,b   Potter, Stephen ^a   Romero Colmenero, Encarni ^a,b   Vaisanen, Petri ^a,b   Williams, Theodore ^g   Zietsman, Ewald ^a,h  

^a SOUTH AFRICAN ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATORY   (South Africa)

^b SOUTHERN AFRICAN LARGE TELESCOPE FOUNDATION   (South Africa)

^c NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^d RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^f UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^g RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AFRICA   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Pipelines; PySALT; SALT

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS TOOLS; ASTRONOMICAL SOFTWARE; CURRENT STATUS; FABRY-PEROT; HIGH SPEED IMAGING; HIGH-SPEED; MULTIOBJECT SPECTROSCOPY; OPEN-SOURCE; OPERATIONAL MODES; PARTNER INSTITUTIONS; POLARIMETRIC DATA; PYSALT; QUALITY REDUCTION; REDUCTION SOFTWARE; SCIENTIFIC RESULTS; SOUTHERN AFRICAN LARGE TELESCOPES; USER COMMUNITIES; WIDE-FIELD IMAGER;

BUILDINGS; FABRY-PEROT INTERFEROMETERS; OBSERVATORIES; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; PIPELINES; POLARIMETERS; POLAROGRAPHIC ANALYSIS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; SPEED; STATISTICS;

DATA REDUCTION;

EID: 78049374648     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.857000     Document Type: Conference Paper

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