KCWIKit extends the official KCWI DRP with a variety of stacking tools and DRP improvements. The software offers masking and median filtering scripts to be used while running the KCWI DRP, and a step-by-step KCWI_DRP implementation for finer control over the reduction process. Once the DRP has finished, KCWIKit can be used to stack the output cubes via the Montage package. Various functions cross-correlate and mosaic the constituent cubes and the final stacked cubes are WCS corrected. Helper functions can then be used to deproject the stacked cube into lower-dimensional representations should the user desire.
This repo is organized as follows:
- docs/ Documentation and Instructions
- pro/ Improvinng the IDL pipeline.
- py/ Post-DRP alignment, stacking.
- pyDRP/ Improving the Python pipeline.
- gui/ An interactive GUI for the post-DRP reduction, including performing/refining sky subtraction, flux calibration, and telluric correction.
Check the subdirectories for additional instructions and prerequisites.
If you use KCWIKit, please cite the ASCL entry (BibTeX format on ADS) and Chen et al. 2021 where the code is implemented.
Developed and maintained by Nikolaus Prusinski, Yuguang Chen and Zhuyun Zhuang. If you encounter bugs, have questions on how to run the code, or have feature requests, drop us a line!