MOSFIRE DRP 2014.06.10 *MAJOR CHANGES AND BUGFIXES*

[Nick Konidaris]

All:

I'm pleased to announce a new version of the MOSFIRE data reduction pipeline known as "2014.06.10". The code can be found at the link below:

http://astro.caltech.edu/~npk/mosdrp_releases/mosdrp_2014.06.10.tar.gz

The following changes were made:

- Major correction to the way eps, itime, and snr files are calculated. Previous versions of the pipeline delivered results that were incorrect by 2 or sqrt(2).

- ABA'B' subtraction is now handled by the pipeline

- Flat file applied to Longslit

- During interactive fit, the user can press \ which is equivalent to f for fit.

- Filename output is changed to be [maskname]_[band]_[objname]_[type].fits, it is now consistent among various steps.

- itime files are now written

- Pipeline attempts to identify and ignore vignetted slits (please don't place slits in the vignetted region)

- FITS header comments are included, which includes some critical data and make it easier to read the headers

- FITS headers populated by the Background task are more readable

- Underscore in pathname are handled gracefully

- H band line list updated with two lines at the red end suggested by CCS

- During interactive fitting, the "f" key doesn't force the window to full screen.  

- Pipeline version is included in the FITS headers

- Plus more minor changes

Best,

Nick

Several beta versions were generated and a number of folks helped debug the pipeline including:

Chuck Steidel (CIT), Marc Kassis (WMKO), Sirio Belli (CIT), Matt Schenker (CIT), Karl Glazebrook (SWIN), Themiya Nanayakkara (SWIN), & Irene Shivaei (UCR)

Thank you all, I could not have improved the pipeline without your help.