APERO Documentation

Last Updated on 2024-03-21

APERO is a pipeline designed to reduce astrophysical observations (specifically from echelle spectrographs). It is the official pipeline for:

  • SPIROU (SPectropolarimeter InfraROUge) on the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope CFHT.

APERO Publications:

APERO is also be used by:

The Line-by-line code for precision radial velocity (Artigau et al. 2022) is also integrated into APERO.

Versions:

There are multiple branches and versions of APERO with different levels of stability and features.

The current versions are:

  • main (long term stable) V0.7.288 (2024-01-30)

This is the version currently recommended for all general use. It may not
contain the most up-to-date features until long term support and stability can
be verified.
  • developer (tested) V0.7.288 (2024-01-30)

Note the developer version should have been tested and semi-stable but not
ready for full sets of processing and defintely not for release for
non-developers or for data put on archives. Some changes may not be
in this version that are in the working version.
  • stable-test (tested) V0.7.289 (2024-03-21)

Notrmally up-to-date with the live version has been or is currently
being tested for stability
  • live (untested) V0.8.001 (2024-03-21)

Note the live version will be the most up-to-date version but has not been
tested for stability - use at own risk.

Documentation written with version: 0.8.001

Overview

Instrument documentation

Developer documentation

Other

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