Subaru Data Reduction Manuals

Subaru Data Reduction Cookbooks

by the combined efforts of the past and current observatory staff and our community

Suprime-Cam

"Data Reduction School" Textbooks --- [Japanese (2006: ppt)]
Others

SDFRED1 (the former SDFRED) --- [English v.1.5e: HTML], [Japanese v.1.4j: HTML]
SDFRED2 (optimized for the data taken in July 2008 or later with the newly installed CCD chips) --- Please inquire for instruction of reducing the data taken with the new CCD chips.

FOCAS

"Data Reduction School" Textbooks --- [English: pdf], [Japanese: pdf may be found at the 2009 Spring School web page]
Others

FOCASRED (IDL v.5.3.-5.5. is required) --- [English: html], see note at the bottom for free IDL Virtual Machine info..

HDS

"Data Reduction School" Textbooks --- [English: pdf], [Japanese: pdf]
Others

An IRAF CL-script for reducing overscan data
Other User Support Tools

IRCS

"Data Reduction School" Textbooks

[English (imaging: pdf, sample data 243 Mb, scripts),

(Grism spectroscopy: pdf, sample data & scripts 156 Mb),

(Echelle spectroscopy: HTML, pdf)]

[Japanese version] may be found at the 2009 Spring School web page

Note that the above manual for Echelle spectroscopy is for the data taken in 2003 or earlier. The image direction of the Echelle data taken after 2003 should be rotated by 90 degree.

COMICS

"Data Reduction School" Textbooks [(English v.2.1.1.: pdf), (Japanese: in prep.) ]
Others

Data Reduction Packages --- q_series, and some IRAF scripts,
N-band low resolution spectroscopy for point sources --- [Japanese: pdf]

Other useful documents can be found in the ISAS/JAXA page --- you can find data reduction manuals in Japanese (but some of them are outdated)

MOIRCS

"Data Reduction School" Textbooks --- [English (imaging:pdf), (Japanese: may be found at the 2009 Spring School web page)]
Others
Data Reduction Packages for Imaging

SIMPLE: an IDL based package by Dr. Wei-Hao Wang
MCSRED: an IRAF based package [(English;), (Japanese: HTML, textbook for imaging: pdf)]

Data Reduction Packages for Spectroscopy

Subaru Data Reduction and Analysis

Below is a link to the former data reduction web page maintained by the Mitaka based staff,

[English; Japanese]

the Mitaka page was merged with this Hawaii based page, and will no longer be updated
as of 2008 December 31, but all existing materials will be maintained at Hawaii side.

Subaru Data Reduction Schools

Subaru Autumn School 2009

Subaru Spring School 2009

GUAS Subaru Asia Winter School (2008)

Subaru Spring School 2008

Subaru Autumn School 2007

Subaru Winter School 2006

Suprime-Cam Data Analysis Workshop (2006)

Inquiry as for data reduction: email:ssgroup

(support scientists)

Inquiry as for data archive: email: smoka

(SMOKA)

A Note for Using IDL;
You can download Free IDL Virtual Machine (VM) from ITT Visual Information Solutions web site
to run already compiled IDL scripts.