Advances in Astronomy
Volume 2010 (2010), Article ID 101502, 6 pages
doi:10.1155/2010/101502
Research Article

The Data Reduction Pipeline of the Hamburg Robotic Telescope

Marco Mittag, Alexander Hempelmann, José Nicolás González-Pérez, and Jürgen H. M. M. Schmitt

Hamburger Sternwarte, Universität Hamburg, Gojenbergsweg 112, 21029 Hamburg, Germany

Received 25 June 2009; Accepted 7 September 2009

Academic Editor: Lorraine Hanlon

Copyright © 2010 Marco Mittag et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Abstract

The fully automatic reduction pipeline for the blue channel of the HEROS spectrograph of the Hamburg Robotic Telescope (HRT) is presented. This pipeline is started automatically after finishing the night-time observations and calibrations. The pipeline includes all necessary procedures for a reliable and complete data reduction, that is, Bias, Dark, and Flat Field correction. Also the order definition, wavelength calibration, and data extraction are included. The final output is written in a fits-format and ready to use for the astronomer. The reduction pipeline is implemented in IDL and based on the IDL reduction package REDUCE written by Piskunov and Valenti (2002).