PyWiFeS

subtract_overscan - Update for v2

onken (onken@undisclosed.example.com) — 2025-07-03T01:03:17+00:00

This was the beginning of an effort to document the options available for each step of the pipeline. For an up-to-date and complete implementation of this kind of documentation, please see the ReadTheDocs site. pywifes.subtract_overscan Purpose: to subtract overscan from raw WiFeS data.

support - Update for v2

onken (onken@undisclosed.example.com) — 2025-07-03T01:00:57+00:00

Support Raising Issues To get support for PyWiFeS problems from version 2 onwards, please raise an issue in the GitHub repository. Mailing List There is a pywifes mailing list, although this has had little use in recent years. To be added to this list, please contact Jon Nielsen (

forum - Update for v2

onken (onken@undisclosed.example.com) — 2025-07-03T00:54:48+00:00

Forum To ask questions of the PyWiFeS community related to version 2, you may start a discussion in the GitHub repository.

default_reduction - Update for v2

onken (onken@undisclosed.example.com) — 2025-07-03T00:44:27+00:00

Default Data Reduction Steps In version 2 of PyWiFeS, the association of the pipeline steps with their particular file suffixes from the table below has been retained. But note that the final datacubes are renamed from p11.fits to cube.fits. In addition, regarding footnote C, standard stars are now identified by header keyword IMAGETYP='STANDARD' with a user option to also grab any IMAGETYP='OBJECT' exposures with sky positions close to the tabulated standard stars.

calibration_files - Update for v2

onken (onken@undisclosed.example.com) — 2025-07-03T00:38:17+00:00

Calibration Files With version 2 of PyWiFeS, baseline calibrations are not provided, but should be available from the WiFeS data archive under the automated 2.3m telescope operations. However, the general principles below still hold. In addition, note that dark frames are not recommended because the dark current in the detectors (as of 2025 and going back to at least 2013) are below 1 ADU/hour.

download_install - Updates for v2

onken (onken@undisclosed.example.com) — 2025-07-03T00:32:09+00:00

Download From version 0.7.0 of PyWiFeS, we have migrated the code to a GitHub repository: To download the code, you need to first install git. To install the PyWiFeS pipeline itself, create the directory you want to store it in then clone the PyWiFeS git repository with this command:

data_reduction - Update for v2

onken (onken@undisclosed.example.com) — 2025-07-03T00:31:05+00:00

PyWiFeS Data Reduction The processes in version 2 of PyWiFeS largely build upon the excellent work of the previous PyWiFeS developers. Thus, we retain the original documentation here, but note that several aspects have undergone significant revision in the current version, described in Onken et al. (in prep). Documentation for the new processes may also be found in

documentation - Update for v2

onken (onken@undisclosed.example.com) — 2025-07-03T00:23:48+00:00

PyWiFeS Documentation The usage of PyWiFeS has been modified for version 2. Please disregard these instructions and follow those on our ReadTheDocs site. This page is a starting point for running the actual reduction code. Eventually it will also host documentation for individual function syntax.

start - Updates for v2

onken (onken@undisclosed.example.com) — 2025-07-03T00:18:49+00:00

start Introduction This is the original homepage of pywifes, a Python-based pipeline for reducing data from the Wide Field Spectrograph (WiFeS). For up-to-date documentation on version 2 of PyWiFeS, please see our ReadTheDocs page An overview of the instrument itself can be found on its

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