Subaru Data Reduction Cookbooks

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

Hyper Suprime-Cam

• HSC pipeline manual English - Japanese

Suprime-Cam

• "Data Reduction School" Textbooks
• Others
  • SDFRED1 for all the data taken before 2008 July 20,SDFRED2for all the data taken after 2008 July 21

FOCAS

• "Data Reduction School"Textbooks---[English: pdf], [Japanese: pdfmay be found at the2009 Spring School web page]
• Others
  • FOCASRED(Some programs require IDL v.5.3.-5.5.) ---[English: html], see note at the bottom forfreeIDL Virtual Machine info..

HDS

• "Data Reduction School"Textbooks---[English: pdf],[Japanese: pdf]
• Others
  • An IRAFCL-scriptfor reducing overscan data
  • Other User Support Tools

IRCS

• "Data Reduction School"Textbooks

  • [English(/Archive/Science/DataReduction/imaging: pdf,sample data243 Mb,scripts),
    (Grism spectroscopy:pdf,sample data & scripts156 Mb),
    (Echelle spectroscopy:HTML,pdf)]
  • [Japanese version]may be found at the2009 Spring School web page

• Note that the above manual forEchelle 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.2.1.2.:pdf)]

• Others

  • Data Reduction Packages --- q_series (a quasi-mirror) and some IRAF scripts (a quasi-mirror)

  • N-band low resolution spectroscopy for point sources --- [Japanese: pdf (a quasi-mirror)]

• Other useful documents can be found on theISAS/JAXA page(a quasi-mirror) --- you can find data reduction manuals in Japanese (but some of them are outdated)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 the2009 Spring School web page)]

• Data Reduction Packages for Imaging

  • SIMPLE: an IDL based package by Dr. Wei-Hao Wang
  • MCSRED: an IRAF based package by Dr. I. Tanaka

• Data Reduction Packages for Spectroscopy

  • MCSMDP: a data reduction package for near-infrared multi-object spectroscopic observationsby Dr. T. Yoshikawa

!! Note !! You can find the more recent version of the above manuals from the Information Pages (Imaging/Spectroscopy) under MOIRCS website.

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 2018
• Subaru International Winter School 2014 at KASI/KOREA
• Subaru Winter School 2013
• Subaru Autumn School 2012
• Subaru Spring School 2012
• Subaru Autumn School 2011
• Subaru Spring School 2011
• Subaru Autumn School 2010
• 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)

Contact us through emails

Inquiry as for data reduction:(support scientists)
Inquiry as for data archive:(SMOKA)

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