The VIRUS data reduction pipeline

Claus A. Goessl; Niv Drory; Helena Relke; Karl Gebhardt; Frank Grupp; Gary Hill; Ulrich Hopp; Ralf Köhler; Phillip MacQueen

doi:10.1117/12.671264

30 June 2006 The VIRUS data reduction pipeline

Claus A. Goessl, Niv Drory, Helena Relke, Karl Gebhardt, Frank Grupp, Gary Hill, Ulrich Hopp, Ralf Köhler, Phillip MacQueen

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Proceedings Volume 6270, Observatory Operations: Strategies, Processes, and Systems; 627021 (2006) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.671264
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2006, Orlando, Florida , United States

Abstract

The Hobby-Eberly Telescope Dark Energy Experiment (HETDEX) will measure baryonic acoustic oscillations, first discovered in the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB), to constrain the nature of dark energy by performing a blind search for Ly-α emitting galaxies within a 200 deg² field and a redshift bin of 1.8 < z < 3.7. This will be achieved by VIRUS, a wide field, low resolution, 145 IFU spectrograph. The data reduction pipeline will have to extract ≈ 35.000 spectra per exposure (≈5 million per night, i.e. 500 million in total), perform an astrometric, photometric, and wavelength calibration, and find and classify objects in the spectra fully automatically. We will describe our ideas how to achieve this goal.

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Claus A. Goessl, Niv Drory, Helena Relke, Karl Gebhardt, Frank Grupp, Gary Hill, Ulrich Hopp, Ralf Köhler, and Phillip MacQueen "The VIRUS data reduction pipeline", Proc. SPIE 6270, Observatory Operations: Strategies, Processes, and Systems, 627021 (30 June 2006); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.671264

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