Data reduction and Quality Control Information

Active Team members : S. Smartt,  C. Inserra, E. Kankare, D. Young, K. Smith, M. Gromadzki, M. Nicholl, T. Müller Bravo

This wiki area should be used as the main source of communication for this operations group. The group's email address is datareduction_@_pessto.org and the group's google drive area can be found here:

http://is.gd/QqoT2u

and can be used as sandbox area to hash out ideas, project plans and draft documents.

Please note that everything published via this wiki is public, but everything published to google drive is viewable by pessto members only.

The PESSTO Pipeline for EFOSC2 and SOFI reductions 

• • Github - the new home of the PESSTO Pipeline - quick Github Tour for PESSTO Users

  • NTT Pipeline (Version 2.4.1 is the current latest version): Download

  • NTT Pipeline Installation Guide and troubleshooting (+ Installation Test Data) - Updated 23 April 2021 - An updated installation guide can be found on github 

• NTT Pipeline User's Manual

Tips and tricks 

• Quick astrometric reductions of EFOSC2 acquisition (or science) images to identify source and make finders

ESO Phase 3 Data Reduction & Submission

PESSTO Year 1 : April 2012 - April 2013

• • Submission issues from ESO email 20131125 @done

  • Submission issues from ESO email 20130808 @done

  • Photometric keyword issues - 20130819 @done

  • Spectroscopic keyword issues 20130819 @done

• Bug fixes and updates required by pipeline for SSDR2  - 20130917

• Quality Control plots and tests for SOFI 

PESSTO Year 2 : August 2013 - April 2014

• PESSTO Year 2 - Final Data Reductions

  • PESSTO Year 2 - Final EFOSC2 Spectra reduction

  • PESSTO Year 2 - Final SOFI Spectra reduction 

  • PESSTO Year 2 - Final SOFI Imaging reduction

• PESSTO Phase III Catalogue (End of Year 2)

PESSTO Year 3+4 : August 2014 - April 2016

• Some notes from Stefano Benetti on EFOSC2 reduction with the pipeline

• PESSTO Year 3+4 - Final SOFI Spectra reduction

• PESSTO Year 3+4 - Final SOFI Imaging reduction

• PESSTO Year 3+4 - Final EFOSC2 Imaging reduction

We will submit the following three years for the same deadline of 31st October 2019. They have different identifiers and will likely have to be submitted separately, but we can reduce together, while keeping the product files in separate folders.  

PESSTO Year 5: Aug 2016 - Mar 2017

• The call for Phase 3 submission from ESO : copy of the email 

• Overall plan and organisation 

• Github repo for task/issue tracking

• PESSTO Year 5 - Final SOFI Spectra reduction

• PESSTO Year 5 - Final SOFI Imaging reduction

ePESSTO Year 1+2: Apr 2017 - Mar 2019

• Github repo for task/issue tracking

• ePESSTO Year 1+2 - Final SOFI Spectra reduction

• ePESSTO Year 1+2 - Final SOFI Imaging reduction

ePESSTO+ Year 1+2: Apr 2019 - Sep 2021 

• ePESSTO+ Year 1+2 - Final SOFI Spectra reduction

• ePESSTO+ Year 1+2 - Final SOFI Imaging reduction

Quality Control - EFOSC2

1. EFOSC2 CCD40 quality control and measurements

2. EFOSC2 slit rotation problem

   1. EFOSC2 correlated readnoise problems (20131125)

3. Suggestions arising from PESSSTO run November 2013 (Michel Dennefeld) and responses