The GALAH survey: the data reduction pipeline
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Article Title | The GALAH survey: the data reduction pipeline |
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ERA Journal ID | 1074 |
Article Category | Article |
Authors | Kos, Janez (Author), Lin, Jane (Author), Zwitter, Tomaz (Author), Zerjal, Maruska (Author), Sharma, Sanjib (Author), Bland-Hawthorn, Joss (Author), Asplund, Martin (Author), Casey, Andrew R. (Author), de Silva, Gayandhi M. (Author), Freeman, Ken C. (Author), Martell, Sarah L. (Author), Simpson, Jeffrey D. (Author), Schlesinger, Katharine J. (Author), Zucker, Daniel (Author), Anguiano, Borja (Author), Bacigalupo, Carlos (Author), Bedding, Timothy R. (Author), Betters, Christopher (Author), Da Costa, Gary (Author), Duong, Ly (Author), Hyde, Elaina (Author), Ireland, Michael (Author), Kafle, Prajwal R. (Author), Leon-Saval, Sergio (Author), Lewis, Geraint F. (Author), Munari, Ulisse (Author), Nataf, David (Author), Stello, Dennis (Author), Tinney, C. G. (Author), Traven, Gregor (Author), Watson, Fred (Author) and Wittenmyer, Robert A. (Author) |
Journal Title | Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society |
Journal Citation | 464 (2), pp. 1259-1281 |
Number of Pages | 23 |
Year | 2017 |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Place of Publication | United Kingdom |
ISSN | 0035-8711 |
1365-2966 | |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stw2064 |
Web Address (URL) | https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/464/2/1259/2282835 |
Abstract | We present the data reduction procedures being used by the GALactic Archeology with Hermes (GALAH) survey, carried out with the HERMES fibre-fed, multi-object spectrograph on the 3.9-m Anglo-Australian Telescope. GALAH is a unique survey, targeting 1 million stars brighter than magnitude V = 14 at a resolution of 28 000 with a goal to measure the abundances of 29 elements. Such a large number of high-resolution spectra necessitate the development of a reduction pipeline optimized for speed, accuracy, and consistency. We outline the design and structure of the IRAF-based reduction pipeline that we developed, specifically for GALAH, to produce fully calibrated spectra aimed for subsequent stellar atmospheric parameter estimation. The pipeline takes advantage of existing IRAF routines and other readily available software so as to be simple to maintain, testable, and reliable. A radial velocity and stellar atmospheric parameter estimator code is also presented, which is used for further data analysis and yields a useful verification of the reduction quality. We have used this estimator to quantify the data quality of GALAH for fibre cross-talk level (≲0.5 per cent) and scattered light (˜5 counts in a typical 20 min exposure), resolution across the field, sky spectrum properties, wavelength solution reliability (better than 1 km s-1 accuracy), and radial velocity precision. |
Keywords | atmospheric effects; instrumentation: spectrographs; methods: observational; techniques: spectroscopic; surveys; stars: atmospheres |
ANZSRC Field of Research 2020 | 510109. Stellar astronomy and planetary systems |
Institution of Origin | University of Southern Queensland |
Byline Affiliations | University of Sydney |
Australian National University | |
University of Ljubljana, Slovenia | |
University of Cambridge, United Kingdom | |
Australian Astronomical Observatory, Australia | |
University of New South Wales | |
Macquarie University | |
Western Sydney University | |
University of Western Australia | |
INAF - Astronomical Observatory of Padova, Italy |
https://research.usq.edu.au/item/q3x13/the-galah-survey-the-data-reduction-pipeline
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