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

• 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)
• Karma

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

• 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

• QFitsView

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

Data

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