Data Reduction

SofI Pipeline

• Public release of SofI Pipeline Recipes and Manual
• SofI Pipeline Description
• Quick Tool for data reduction based on the recipes from the SofI pipeline

SofI-specific Scripts and Documents

• VERY Useful scripts for flat fielding, illumination correction, cross talk removal, telluric correction (from Maiolino et al. 1996) etc.
• How to Reduce SOFI/NTT Polarimetric Data (report by Walsh, Vanzi & Ageorges; 2002-05-17)
• Description of the SofI polarimetric mode by J. Walsh.
• Description of the reduction of the SOFI polarimetric data (by N. Ageorges; also available as PDF).
• User's Guide to Reduce Slit Spectra with IRAF

SofI Calibration Data Repository and Spectrophotometric Library

• Ftp site with calibration repository (replaces the old http link as of 2011-04-13; last update 2012-05-11)
• Flat Fielding and Illumination Correction (info + calibration archive)
• Bad Pixel Masking (last updated 2012-05-13)
• Image quality Large Field (after Nov 2003 / before Aug 2003)
  
• Astrometry Large Field
  
• Astrometry Small Field; (pdf file)
• Library of Stellar Spectra for spectrophotometric calibration.

General Data Reduction Software Tools

• Converting HIERARCH ESO keywords to IRAF format
• Stand-alone FITS Tools in ANSI C (Nota bene: includes a tool to convert HIERARCH ESO keywords to IRAF, etc. readable format!)
• Eclipse - data reduction software tool (user's guide)
• ESO-MIDAS - data reduction software tool (notes for beginners by O.Hainaut)
• FSpec - IRAF based data reduction software tools and manuals for IR spectrocopy (by Chad Engelbracht; Very useful!)
• IRAF - data reduction software tool (notes for beginners by STScI)
• 2D-Frutti Reductions with IRAF