SImMER: Stellar Image Maturation via Efficient Reduction
Abstract
SImMER (Stellar Image Maturation via Efficient Reduction) reduces astronomical imaging data. It performs standard dark-subtraction and flat-fielding operations on data from, for example, the ShARCS camera on the Shane 3-m telescope at Lick Observatory and the PHARO camera on the Hale 5.1-m telescope at Palomar Observatory; its object-oriented design allows the software to be extended to other instruments. SImMER can also perform sky-subtraction, image registration, FWHM measurement, and contrast curve calculation, and can generate tables and plots. For widely separated stars which are of somewhat equal brightness, a "wide binary" mode allows the user to selects which star is the primary around which each image should be centered.
- Publication:
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Astrophysics Source Code Library
- Pub Date:
- December 2022
- Bibcode:
- 2022ascl.soft12015S
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- Software