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 ARC Echelle Spectroscopic Observation Pipeline (aesop)
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+The ARC Echelle Spectroscopic Observation Pipeline, or ``aesop``, is a high resolution 
+spectroscopy software toolkit tailored for observations from the Astrophysics Research 
+Consortium (ARC) Echelle Spectrograph mounted on the ARC 3.5 m Telescope at Apache 
+Point Observatory. ``aesop`` picks up where the traditional IRAF reduction scripts leave 
+off, offering an open development, object-oriented Pythonic analysis framework for echelle
+spectra. 
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+Basic functionality of ``aesop`` includes: (1) blaze function normalization by polynomial 
+fits to observations of early-type stars, (2) an additional/alternative robust least-squares 
+normalization method, (3) radial velocity measurements (or offset removals) via 
+cross-correlation with model spectra, including barycentric radial velocity calculations, 
+(4) concatenation of multiple echelle orders into a simple 1D spectrum, and (5) approximate
+flux calibration. 
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+For more info, [read the docs](http://arces.readthedocs.io/en/latest/?badge=latest)!
diff --git a/aesop/spectra.py b/aesop/spectra.py
@@ -488,8 +488,6 @@ def continuum_normalize_lstsq(self, polynomial_order, only_orders=None,
 
         Parameters
         ----------
-        standard_spectrum : `EchelleSpectrum`
-            Spectrum of the standard object
         polynomial_order : int
             Fit the standard's spectrum with a polynomial of this order
         only_orders : `~numpy.ndarray` (optional)

diff --git a/docs/paper.md b/docs/paper.md
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ authors:
 affiliations:
  - name: Astronomy Department, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
    index: 1
-date: XX July 2018
+date: 15 July 2018
 bibliography: paper.bib
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@@ -45,4 +45,4 @@ package-template, and thus includes self-building documentation and continuous i
 We acknowledge guidance from Suzanne L. Hawley and Emily Levesque, and the invaluable 
 framework and dev team behind the astropy package-template.
 
-# References
+# References