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| Paper: |
cleanest: Useful Legacy Code for Cosmic Ray Removal |
| Volume: |
522, Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems XXVII |
| Page: |
723 |
| Authors: |
Cardiel, N. |
| Abstract: |
Useful astronomical software tools can be easily ignored if they were created a
few decades ago and using programming languages considered by many people as
outdated. A particular example is cleanest, a Fortran 77 utility
specially written to handle the semi-automatic removal of cosmic rays. This
particular tool was the initial seed that led to the creation of
REDUCEME, a data reduction package specially devoted to the reduction and
analysis of long-slit spectroscopic data. Unfortunately, and due to historical
reasons, this package evolved handling images stored as unformatted Fortran
files instead of using conventional FITS format files, which is a clear
disadvantage nowadays. Since cleanest is probably the REDUCEME
utility most demanded by the small group of astronomers aware of the existence
of that reduction package, a stand-alone version of this program, working
directly with FITS files, has been created. |
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