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Milestones
See all the the SOXS Pipeline development milestones here. Here is a little more information and the time-scales for each milestone.
Timeline: 1 July 2019 --> 11 October 2019
The first goal of this phase of development is to gain a fine-grained knowledge of the logic behind the XShooter pipeline (not necessarily the inner workings of its code).
The second goal is to throughly understand the ESO pipeline SDK, how to use it and work out its limitations. By the end of this period we have a clean development environment and a good working knowledge of how to write pipeline recipes and plugins to be used with ESORex.
Timeline: 16 September 2019 --> 20 December 2019
During the design phase we will use the time to document each of the SOXS pipeline recipes we plan to build. Here we determine the logic required for each recipe, the input data needed, the FITS keywords required (input and output frames), the output frames, calibration and QC data. We will also state which CPL and HDRL routines we can employ.
This stage will also require the design and curation of standard test-suites of data; both real (XShooter) and mock (E2E).
Timeline: 7 January 2020 --> 1 May 2020
Here we finally get to code our designs using unit-tested development.
Here are the recipes scheduled to be implemented by May 2020
CCD Signature Removal - C
soxs_lingain- identify rogue pixels and measure detector gain
soxs_mbias- create a master bias frame
soxs_mdark- create a master dark frame (NIR arm only)
2D Rectification and Wavelength Calibrations - C
soxs_pinhole_wavelength - generate an estimate of the central trace and dispersion-solution for each spectral order
soxs_spec_mflat- create a master flat-field frame and trace the spectral order edges
soxs_2dmap- generate a 2D pixel to wavelength/slit position transformation map
soxs_line_check- check the accuracy of the 2D transformation map and measure the instrument's spectral resolution
Timeline: 4 May 2020 --> 22 May 2020
Once the recipes are developed using standard test-suites, it's time to stress test the pipeline using edge-case data i.e. faint-sources, bright backgrounds etc. Fixes and modifications during this stage will hopefully make the pipeline more robust.
Timeline: 25 May 2020 --> 29 May 2020
Deploying the pipeline to the various machines and locations where it's required by the SOXS consortium.
Timeline: 1 June 2020 --> 27 November 2020
Here we finally get to code our designs using unit-tested development.
Timeline 30 November 2020 --> 18 December 2020
Once the recipes are developed using standard test-suites, it's time to stress test the pipeline using edge-case data i.e. faint-sources, bright backgrounds etc. Fixes and modifications during this stage will hopefully make the pipeline more robust.
Timeline 21 December 2020 --> 23 December 2020
Deploying the pipeline to the various machines and locations where it's required by the SOXS consortium.
Timeline 4 January 2021 - 24 September 2021
Once the recipes have all been written it is time to wrap them up as CPL plugins (if this is not already the case) and get them to work within ESOReflex. A user manual will be written/completed and quick-start tutorials developed with the aid of demo SOXS-data. Once complete it's time to announce the pipeline release to potential users.