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On-sky Fibre-Target-Alignment of the 4MOST instrument: calibration and performance
Roland Winkler, Weijia Sun, Daniel Sablowski +9
The 4-metre Multi-Object Spectroscopic Telescope (4MOST) is a new wide-field, fibre-fed spectroscopic survey facility for the VISTA telescope at ESOs Paranal Observatory. The instr…
The MUSE second-generation VLT instrument
Bacon R., Accardo M., Adjali L. +65
The Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE) is a second-generation VLT panoramic integral-field spectrograph currently in manufacturing, assembly and integration phase. MUSE has a…
The Astropy Project: Sustaining and Growing a Community-oriented Open-source Project and the Latest Major Release (v5.0) of the Core Package
The Astropy Collaboration, Adrian M. Price-Whelan, Pey Lian Lim +133
The Astropy Project supports and fosters the development of open-source and openly-developed Python packages that provide commonly needed functionality to the astronomical communit…
The Data Processing Pipeline for the MUSE Instrument
Peter M. Weilbacher, Ralf Palsa, Ole Streicher +12
Processing of raw data from modern astronomical instruments is nowadays often carried out using dedicated software, so-called "pipelines" which are largely run in automated operati…
The Astropy Project: Building an inclusive, open-science project and status of the v2.0 core package
The Astropy Collaboration, A. M. Price-Whelan, B. M. Sipőcz +134
The Astropy project supports and fosters the development of open-source and openly-developed Python packages that provide commonly-needed functionality to the astronomical communit…
Debian Astro: An open computing platform for astronomy
Ole Streicher
Debian Astro is a Debian Pure Blend that aims to distribute the available astronomy software within the Debian operating system. Using Debian as the foundation has unique advantage…
The Astropy Problem
Demitri Muna, Michael Alexander, Alice Allen +151
The Astropy Project (http://astropy.org) is, in its own words, "a community effort to develop a single core package for Astronomy in Python and foster interoperability between Pyth…
The MUSE Data Reduction Pipeline: Status after Preliminary Acceptance Europe
Peter M. Weilbacher, Ole Streicher, Tanya Urrutia +3
MUSE, a giant integral field spectrograph, is about to become the newest facility instrument at the VLT. It will see first light in February 2014. Here, we summarize the properties…
Learning from FITS: Limitations in use in modern astronomical research
Brian Thomas, Tim Jenness, Frossie Economou +35
The Flexible Image Transport System (FITS) standard has been a great boon to astronomy, allowing observatories, scientists and the public to exchange astronomical information easil…
Astropy: A Community Python Package for Astronomy
The Astropy Collaboration, Thomas P. Robitaille, Erik J. Tollerud +42
We present the first public version (v0.2) of the open-source and community-developed Python package, Astropy. This package provides core astronomy-related functionality to the com…
Reduction and analysis of MUSE data
J. Richard, R. Bacon, P. M. Weilbacher +10
MUSE, the Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer, is a 2nd generation integral-field spectrograph under final assembly to see first light at the Very Large Telescope in 2013. By capturi…