Test results for the Gemini Planet Imager data reduction pipeline

Jérôme Maire; Marshall D. Perrin; René Doyon; Jeffrey Chilcote; James E. Larkin; Jason L. Weiss; Christian Marois; Quinn M. Konopacky; Maxwell Millar-Blanchaer; James R. Graham; Jennifer Dunn; Raphael Galicher; Franck Marchis; Sloane J. Wiktorowicz; Kathleen Labrie; Sandrine J. Thomas; Stephen J. Goodsell; Fredrik T. Rantakyro; David W. Palmer; Bruce A. Macintosh

doi:10.1117/12.926202

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24 September 2012 Test results for the Gemini Planet Imager data reduction pipeline

Jérôme Maire, Marshall D. Perrin, René Doyon, Jeffrey Chilcote, James E. Larkin, Jason L. Weiss, Christian Marois, Quinn M. Konopacky, Maxwell Millar-Blanchaer, James R. Graham, Jennifer Dunn, Raphael Galicher, Franck Marchis, Sloane J. Wiktorowicz, Kathleen Labrie, Sandrine J. Thomas, Stephen J. Goodsell, Fredrik T. Rantakyro, David W. Palmer, Bruce A. Macintosh

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Proceedings Volume 8451, Software and Cyberinfrastructure for Astronomy II; 84513G (2012) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.926202
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2012, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Abstract

The Gemini Planet Imager (GPI) is a new facility instrument for the Gemini Observatory designed to detect and characterize planets and debris disks orbiting nearby stars; its science camera is a near infrared integral field spectrograph. We have developed a data pipeline for this instrument, which will be made publicly available to the community. The GPI data reduction pipeline (DRP) incorporates all necessary image reduction and calibration steps for high contrast imaging in both the spectral and polarimetric modes, including datacube generation, wavelength solution, astrometric and photometric calibrations, and speckle suppression via ADI and SSDI algorithms. It is implemented in IDL as a flexible modular system, and includes both command line and graphical interface tools including a customized viewer for GPI datacubes. This GPI data reduction pipeline is currently working very well, and is in use daily processing data during the instrument’s ongoing integration and test period at UC Santa Cruz. Here we summarize the results from recent pipeline tests, and present reductions of instrument test data taken with GPI. We will continue to refine and improve these tools throughout the rest of GPI’s testing and commissioning, and they will be released to the community, including both IDL source code and compiled versions that can be used without an IDL license.

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Jérôme Maire, Marshall D. Perrin, René Doyon, Jeffrey Chilcote, James E. Larkin, Jason L. Weiss, Christian Marois, Quinn M. Konopacky, Maxwell Millar-Blanchaer, James R. Graham, Jennifer Dunn, Raphael Galicher, Franck Marchis, Sloane J. Wiktorowicz, Kathleen Labrie, Sandrine J. Thomas, Stephen J. Goodsell, Fredrik T. Rantakyro, David W. Palmer, and Bruce A. Macintosh "Test results for the Gemini Planet Imager data reduction pipeline", Proc. SPIE 8451, Software and Cyberinfrastructure for Astronomy II, 84513G (24 September 2012); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.926202

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