GPI Data Pipeline User’s Guide

This chapter describes how to use the GPI data pipeline software to reduce and calibrate data from GPI.

See also the IFS Data Handbook, which describes the characteristics of GPI IFS data in terms of hardware performance, known artifacts, and best practices for scientific analysis.

Contents

• Pipeline Conceptual Overview
• Recipes and the Queue
• Starting the GPI Data Pipeline
• Quick Start Tutorial: Diving into data reduction
• Tutorial 2: Polarimetry data reduction
• Tutorial 3: Reducing your own GPI data
• Tutorial 4: Spectrophotometric Calibration For Coronagraphic Imaging Spectroscopy
• The Launcher
• Status Console
• Data Parser
• Recipe Editor
• Autoreducer
• The Queue Viewer
• Recipe Templates
• The Calibration Database
• Primitives, Listed by Category
• Primitive Detailed Documentation
• Logging and History records
• Appendix: Recipe File XML Format
• Appendix: Rarely-Used and/or Nonsupported Advanced Features