Software

VIP 

The Vortex Image Processing package provides state-of-the-art pre- and post-processing algorithms written in python for high-contrast imaging. This toolkit is specifically aimed to the direct imaging of exoplanets, and the retrieval of their astrometry/phometry. VIP started as the PhD project of Dr. Carlos Gomez Gonzalez. I have been its main developer and maintainer since 2020.

More information here.

special

special is a package for the SPEctral Characterization of directly ImAged Low-mass companions. While some tools are specific to the characterisation of directly imaged (sub-)stellar companions, the main features of special can also be used in a more general way for the characterisation of any object with a measured spectrum, provided an input model or template grid.

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vcal_sphere 

vcal_sphere  is a pipeline to calibrate, pre- and post-process VLT/SPHERE data based on VIP. A combination of esorex recipes and VIP methods are used for sky subtraction, flat-fielding, bad pixel correction, and distortion correction, while VIP routines alone carry out image centering, bad frame removal,  and PSF modeling + subtraction (ADI, RDI & SDI).

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MINDS pipeline

The MINDS hybrid pipeline is based on the JWST pipeline and routines from the VIP package for the reduction of JWST MIRI-MRS data. The pipeline compensates for known weaknesses of the official pipeline to improve the quality of spectra extracted from MIRI-MRS data.

More information here.

hci_plot

hci_plot is a small package providing the tools to produce publication-quality ready figures of post-processed high-contrast images. Originally developed by Dr. Carlos Gomez Gonzalez, I have been maintaining and expanding the package since 2020.

More information here.

All open-source projects that I either maintain or contribute to are accessible on my GitHub page.

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