Welcome to nirwals’s documentation!

nirwals is a python package to handle the instrument detrending for the nirwals integral field spectrograph on SALT, the South African Large Telescope.

Note

While much of the functionality already exists and is well tested, the project remains under active development.

Contents:

• Installation
  • Installing nirwals
  • Requirements
• Reducing data using nirwals_reduce
  • Available options
  • Caveats and limitations
  • Logging and more detailed progress updates
• Reading data provenance information using nirwals_provenance
• Creating non-linearity coefficient files
  • Available options
  • Output
• On-the-fly reduction using nirwals_watchdog
  • Available options
• Data Products
  • Generated output files
  • Output file extensions
  • Important and/or derived FITS headers
• API

Indices and tables

• Index

• Module Index

• Search Page