• mkmsc Makes MEF from flat format
• mscsplit Splits MEF to separate images

2. IRAF based routines:

• Data is taken in IRAF based environment, observers are familiar with it:
• imred.echelle does most of what we want.
  
• mtools
  • MIKE's spectra have tilted skylines.
  • Jack Baldwin has a description of how to deal with tilted skylines in iraf and reduce MIKE data generally: mtools, see LCO web page.
  • He also has a CR zapper.

• HIRES data is reduced by MAKEE, by Tom Barlow
• ESI reduction package
  

4. IDL based pipelines:

• MIKE REDUX by Jason Prochaska and Scott Burles, see website
• HIRES REDUX, by Jason Prochaska, see Keck HIRES web site

5. OTHER:

• Rodger Thompson's IDL based software
  
• UVES pipeline (black box; not adaptable)
• "Bechraf"
  

• optimal sky subtraction strategy (very small slits)
• tilted sky lines? use DEEP2 strategy for sky subtraction?
• optimal extraction strategy
• cosmic ray removal (Pieter van Dokkum laplacian edge finder? Rhoads? See Farrage and Pimblet 2005)
• scattered light (interorder fit; model a la STIS)
  
• th-ar line list; optimal wavelength calibration/rebinning scheme; well-culled list
  
• novel flat-field w/ LEDs
• strategies for very high s/n
• splicing orders
• velocity stability
• measurement of spectral line shape -- with star v. lamp

-- Main.jill - 20 Jun 2007