• Documentation

ORAC-DR Documentation

Some documentation is available:

• SUN/230 - Overview and General Introduction (404K PS)

• SUN/231 - SCUBA Pipeline Data Reduction (313K PS)

• SUN/232 - Imaging Data Reduction User's Guide (1.1M PS)

• SUN/233 - Programmer's Guide (471K PS)

• SUN/236 - Spectroscopy Data Reduction (330K PS)

• SUN/246 - Integral Field Spectroscopy Data Reduction (286K PS)

Please also read about ORAC-DR from an astronomer's perspective.

Authors of ORAC-DR have also presented at conferences and published papers. These are:

• The Future of Data Reduction at UKIRT - Frossie Economou, Alan Bridger, Gillian S. Wright, Nick Rees & Tim Jenness. ADASS VII, 1998.

• ORAC-DR: Pipelining With Other People's Code - Frossie Economou, Alan Bridger, Gillian S. Wright, Tim Jenness, Malcolm J. Currie & Andy Adamson. ADASS VIII, 1999.

• The SCUBA Data Reduction Pipeline: ORAC-DR at the JCMT - Tim Jenness & Frossie Economou. ADASS VIII, 1999.

• Data Reduction of Jittered Infrared Images Using the ORAC Pipeline - Malcolm J. Currie, Gillian S. Wright, Alan Bridger & Frossie Economou. ADASS VIII, 1999.(1.6MB PDF)

• Automated Reduction and Calibration of SCUBA Archive Data Using ORAC-DR - Tim Jenness, Jason A. Stevens, Elese N. Archibald, Frossie Economou, Nick Jessop, Ian Robson, Remo P.J. Tilanus & Wayne S. Holland. ADASS X, 2001.

• Infrared Spectroscopy Data Reduction with ORAC-DR - Frossie Economou, Tim Jenness, Brad Cavanagh, Gillian S. Wright, Alan Bridger, Tom H. Kerr, Paul Hirst & Andy Adamson. ADASS X, 2001.

• Generic Data Pipelining Using ORAC-DR - Alasdair Allan, Tim Jenness, Frossie Economou, Malcolm J. Currie & Martin J. Bly. ADASS XI, 2002.

• Towards the Automated Reduction and Calibration of SCUBA Data from the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope - Tim Jenness, Jason A. Stevens, Elese N. Archibald, Frossie Economou, Nick Jessop & Ian Robson. MNRAS, v336, pp14-21, 2002.

• ORAC-DR: One Pipeline for Multiple Telescopes - Brad Cavanagh, Paul Hirst, Tim Jenness, Frossie Economou, Malcolm J. Currie, Stephen Todd & Stuart D. Ryder. ADASS XII, 2003.

• Preliminary Design of the SCUBA-2 Data Reduction Pipeline - Tim Jenness, Frossie Economou, Douglas Scott, Dennis Kelly & Wayne S. Holland. ADASS XIII, 2004.

• Extending ORAC-DR for Offline Processing of ESO, INGRID, and Classic Cam data - Malcolm J. Currie. ADASS XIII, 2004.

• Polarimetry Data Reduction at the Joint Astronomy Centre - Brad Cavanagh, Malcolm J. Currie & Tim Jenness. Astronomical Polarimetry - Current Status and Future Directions, 2004. (2.8MB PDF)

• A Photometric Comparison of ECLIPSE jitter and the ORAC-DR Equivalent Recipe for ISAAC - Malcolm J. Currie. ADASS XIV, 2005. (12MB PDF)

• The ORAC-DR Data Reduction Pipeline - Brad Cavanagh, Tim Jenness, Frossie Economou & Malcolm J. Currie. Astronomische Nachrichten, Vol.329, Issue 3, p.295-297, 2008.

We also have two A0 posters available, a [http://www.oracdr.org/pubs/oracdr-A0.pdf|300 dpi version] (32MB PDF) and a [http://www.oracdr.org/pubs/oracdr-A0-150bpi.pdf|150 dpi version] (6.4MB PDF). We also have a list of papers that cite ORAC-DR papers. This list is current as of 3 September 2009.