The package teareduce#
The Python package teareduce has been initially developed by Nicolás Cardiel to facilitate the reduction of astronomical images within the course Experimental Techniques in Astrophysics, which is part of the Master’s Degree in Astrophysics at the Universidad Complutense of Madrid (UCM).
Different people at UCM have also contributed to the development and testing of this package: Sergio Pascual, María Chillarón, Cristina Cabello, Jesús Gallego and Jaime Zamorano.
Thanks are also extended to many students of the Master’s in Astrophysics at UCM who, in recent years, have used this code in their practical work associated with the reduction of astronomical observations obtained with different instruments and telescopes.
Purpose#
This package is not intended to be a general-purpose image reduction code. It only includes specific operations required in certain steps of the traditional astronomical image reduction process that, at the time of its creation, were not available in more established packages such as ccdproc. In addition, it also offers alternative ways to perform certain tasks that we have found to be more practical for use in Master’s level classes.
This package is under continuous development.
Installation#
$ pip install teareduce
The repository of the code is available in GitHub.
Table of contents#
The different sections of this document consist of Jupyter notebooks that demonstrate the practical use of the defined functionality. Each notebook can be easily downloaded using the download icon that appears at the top of each web page.
This document has been generated with the help of the Jupyter Book package.