Speaker
Description
BlueMUSE is a new blue-optimized, medium spectral resolution, panoramic integral field spectrograph being developed for ESO's VLT. While building on the legacy of the much requested MUSE instrument, its blue wavelength coverage to the atmospheric cutoff (~350 nm) will make it unique. In Galactic, extragalactic, and high-redshift domains, BlueMUSE will enable new science not possible with other instruments.
In this presentation we will show our efforts regarding science software that is developed together with the instrument to carry out simulation, reduction, and analysis of data. We briefly show how we prepare simulated raw calibration data before demonstrating our plans for comprehensive sets of raw simulated science data which will subsequently be used to test the reduction software. We will then explain the BlueSi software that is being used to simulate (reduced) BlueMUSE cubes for a number of science cases with realistic noise estimates.
We will show detailed plans for the data reduction pipeline, how its design evolved from the MUSE pipeline and which new capabilities we will implement, including spatially-resolved line-profile propagation, handling of rectangular spaxels, and exposure combination at the level of intermediate data and for datacubes.
Finally, we will present ideas for a comprehensive data analysis software environment for automated analysis of the datacubes produced by BlueMUSE.
| Affiliation of the submitter | Leibniz-Institut für Astrophysik Potsdam (AIP) |
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| Attendance | in-person |
