JUDE: An Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope pipeline
Astronomical software; Data analysis; Ultraviolet; UVIT
The Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope (UVIT) was launched as part of the multi-wavelength Indian AstroSat mission on 28 September, 2015 into a low Earth orbit. A 6-month performance verification (PV) phase ended in March 2016, and the instrument is now in the general observing phase. UVIT operates in three channels: visible, near-ultraviolet (NUV) and far-ultraviolet (FUV), each with a choice of broad and narrow band filters, and has NUV and FUV gratings for low-resolution spectroscopy. We have written a software package (JUDE) to convert the Level 1 data from UVIT into scientifically useful photon lists and images. The routines are written in the GNU Data Language (GDL) and are compatible with the IDL software package. We use these programs in our own scientific work, and will continue to update the programs as we gain better understanding of the UVIT instrument and its performance. We have released JUDE under an Apache License. 2017 Elsevier B.V.
Murthy J.; Rahna P.T.; Sutaria F.; Safonova M.; Gudennavar S.B.; Bubbly S.G.
Astronomy and Computing, Vol-20, pp. 120-127.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ascom.2017.07.001 https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85026775105&doi=10.1016%2fj.ascom.2017.07.001&partnerID=40&md5=60836e876133400b878c5bc5bc8aa5bd
Murthy J., Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bengaluru, India; Rahna P.T., Department of Physics, Christ University, Bengaluru, India; Sutaria F., Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bengaluru, India; Safonova M., M.P.Birla Institute of Fundamental Research, Bengaluru, India; Gudennavar S.B., Department of Physics, Christ University, Bengaluru, India; Bubbly S.G., Department of Physics, Christ University, Bengaluru, India