Posts tagged as:

spectroscopy

The Integral Field Spectroscopy Wiki

by Kelle October 19, 2009

Here’s a guest post from Mark Westmoquette at the University College London.

Do you currently work with, or are you thinking about applying for integral field unit (IFU) observations? If so, then the Integral Field Spectroscopy wiki is for you.
With IFS instruments installed on all the main optical telescope facilities around the world, it is likely [...]

0 comments Read more →

Spectral line analysis tools

by Jane Rigby October 2, 2009

This is an embarrassing post, but I’m going to forge ahead.  Time was, we used IRAF and we hated it, but what else was there?  Now, there are many choices, lots of them buggy and badly documented, some of them superb.
Say I have a one-dimensional, flux-calibrated, wavelength-calibrated spectrum.  (So, all the hard work of calibration [...]

21 comments Read more →