ESO
SINFONI Pipeline User Manual
Doc:
VLT-MAN-ESO-19500-3600
Issue:
Issue 1.0
Date:
Date 2005-10-19
Page:
11 of 88
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Introduction
1.1
Purpose
The SINFONI pipeline is a subsystem of the VLT Data Flow System (DFS). Its target user is ESO Data Flow
Operations (DFO) in the generation of master calibration data, in the reduction of scientific exposures, and
in the data quality control. It should also serve as a quick look tool for Paranal Science Operations (PSO).
Additionally, the SINFONI pipeline recipes are made public to the user community, to allow a more personalised
processing of the data from the instrument. The purpose of this document is to describe a typical SINFONI data
reduction sequence with the SINFONI pipeline.
This manual is a complete description of the data reduction recipes implemented by the the SINFONI pipeline,
reflecting the status of the SINFONI pipeline as of Oct 19, 2005 (version 1.2.0).
1.2
Acknowledgements
The SINFONI pipeline is based on the SPIFFI Data Reduction Software developed by the Max-Planck-Institut
für extraterrestrische Physik (MPE). We would like to thank the SPIFFI team for providing ESO with a complete
and efficient data reduction software and for their help in documenting, testing, debugging the recipes and the
pipeline during several commissioning and science verifications phases. We are particularly grateful to the
MPE responsibles for the data reduction: Jurgen Schreiber, Matthew Horrobin and Roberto Abuter for their
contributions and support.
Release 1.2.0benefited from the feedback provided by the SINFONI SV team and SINFONI instrument opera-
tions team. In particular we would like to thank Wolfgang Hummel and Juha Runanen for extensively testing
and improving the pipeline and documentation, as well as Jochen Liske for proof reading the manual.
1.3
Scope
This document describes the SINFONI pipeline used at ESO-Garching and ESO-Paranal for the purpose of data
assessment and data quality control.
Updated versions of the present document may be found on [1]. For general information about the current
instrument pipelines status we remind the user of [2]. Quality control information are at [3].
Additional information on QFITS, the Common Pipeline Library (CPL) and ESOREX can be found respectively
at [4], [5], [6]. The Gasgano tool is described in [14]. A description of the instrument is in [7]. The SINFONI
instrument user manual is in [8] while results of Science Verifications (SV) are at [9].
