MPDAF - A Python package for the analysis of VLT/MUSE data
Abstract
MUSE (Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer) is an integral-field spectrograph mounted on the Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile and made available to the European community since October 2014. The Centre de Recherche Astrophysique de Lyon has developed a dedicated software to help MUSE users analyze the reduced data. In this paper we introduce MPDAF, the MUSE Python Data Analysis Framework, based on several well-known Python libraries (Numpy, Scipy, Matplotlib, Astropy) which offers new tools to manipulate MUSE-specific data. We present different examples showing how this Python package may be useful for MUSE data analysis.
- Publication:
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arXiv e-prints
- Pub Date:
- October 2017
- DOI:
- 10.48550/arXiv.1710.03554
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1710.03554
- Bibcode:
- 2017arXiv171003554P
- Keywords:
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- Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
- E-Print:
- to be published in ADASS XXVI (held October 16-20, 2016) proceedings. See http://www.adass2016.inaf.it/images/posters/piqueras.pdf for the poster