Data processing and analysis pipeline for CHIMERA instrument

Python package to reduce, process and analyze science images from the CHIMERA instrument on Hale 200-inch telescope at Palomar.

• Author: Navtej Singh

• Contact: navtej@astro.caltech.edu

• Website: http://tauceti.caltech.edu/chimera

• Organization: Astronomy@Caltech www.astro.caltech.edu

• Description: Python package to process CHIMERA instrument images

• Following requirements should be met to run the code.

  • Numpy >= 1.8
  • pyfits >= 0.14
  • pyraf >= 2.1
  • photutils >= 0.2

• To install pychimera -

  • Clone the pychimera repository to local machine
  • Run setup.py script to install the package
    • python setup.py install

• Example scripts using chimera python modules is included in script directory. Three scripts are included -

  • animation.py : Generate movie from the frames of CHIMERA image cube
  • reduce.py : De-bias and flat field the CHIMERA science images
  • photometry.py : Perform aperture photometry of a star in CHIMERA science images and generate a light curve