SPARK Resources & Downloads

SPARK

• Get here the newest version of SPARK-kmos-kit or directly at the corresponding ftp-site.
  Old versions released by MPE can still be downloaded here.
  
  only from within MPE: At /afs/mpe/astrosoft/spark a working installation of SPARK can be found ready to use.

Manuals

• SPARK Instructional Guide for KMOS data v1.5
  

• KMOS Pipeline Manual v2.12
  

Tutorials

• Slides of KMOS tutorial on 26.10.2012
  

• Slides of KMOS tutorial at ESO on 24.07.2013
  

• ESO 3D2014 conference

  • Slides of KMOS pipeline tutorial on 11.+13.03.2014

  • Working directory for ESO 3D2014 tutorial tutorial_working.tar.gz (13 KB)

  • Test data for ESO 3D2014 tutorial tutorial_data.tar.gz (1.5 GB)

  • (Optional) Products for ESO 3D2014 tutorial tutorial_products.tar.gz (1.2 GB)

Additional Packages & Related Software

• QFitsView

  • Get the latest version of QFitsView from MPE, the recommended viewer for KMOS data.

• Detector readout channel correction

  • IDL-toolchain to remove detector readout channel effects (see SPARK guide section 7.1)

• L.A. cosmic

  • IDL script to remove cosmics (see SPARK guide section 5.1.3)

• qfits-6.2.0.tar.gz

  • ESO package containing tools like dfits, dtfits etc. These are very useful to navigate through the exposures beforehand reducing data.
  • This needn't to be installed if you already have ESO's Scisoft installed.
  • An install script has been added to the tar-file to ensure compilation on 64bit Linux systems.

  • Known issue for MacOSX 10.7 and up:

    • qfits-6.2.0 can't be compiled, no fix found so far
• Karma

  • Get the latest version of the OB preparation tool from USM or ESO

• For the ones who need a GUI to prepare the runs with the pipeline and not being happy with the command line tool Esorex

  • Reflex

  • Gasgano

Papers

On the KMOS pipeline

• The Software Package for Astronomical Reductions with KMOS: SPARK

  • Davies R., Agudo Berbel A., Wiezorrek E., Cirasuolo M., Förster Schreiber N.M., Jung Y., Muschielok B., Ott T., Ramsay S., Schlichter J., Sharples R., Wegner M., 2013, A&A, 558, A56

• KMOS Data Flow: Reconstructing Data Cubes in One Step

  • Davies R., Agudo Berbel A., Wiezzorek E., Ott T., Förster Schreiber N.M., 2010, SPIE 7735-254

Ancillary to the KMOS pipeline

• A method to remove residual OH emission from near infrared spectra

  • Davies R., 2007, MNRAS, 375, 1009

• Cosmic-Ray Rejection by Laplacian Edge Detection

  • van Dokkum P., 2001, PASP, 113, 1420

Data

• only from within MPE: /afs/mpe/data/kmos-3d