ISAAC pipeline recipes

A release of the ISAAC pipeline recipes is now available !

A release of the ISAAC pipeline recipes is now available for the reduction of data obtained by ISAAC.

Together with the data processing modules, we also provide two standalone applications for running them:

Gasgano, a GUI for data browsing and organisation, providing an intuitive and comprehensive interface to pipeline recipes that are based on the ESO Common Pipeline Library (CPL).
EsoRex, a command-line driven utility to launch pipeline recipes, which can be used either as an interactive tool, or can be embedded into scripts for automating some of the data reduction tasks.

ISAAC pipeline recipes latest public version:

The latest public version of the ISAAC pipeline recipes is 5.7.0, and it is included in the pipeline distribution kit isaac-kit-5.7.0.tar.gz together with the following packages:

the cfitsio library, version 2510
the Common Pipeline Library (CPL), version 4.0
Gasgano version 2.2.7
EsoRex, version 3.6.5

ISAAC pipeline recipes System Requirements

At present, the ISAAC pipeline recipes package is certified only for:

Linux RedHat 9.0
Sun Solaris 2.8 or later

You may anyway try to install and run the ISAAC pipeline recipes package on other distributions assuming that you have the gcc compiler version 3.2 or newer available.

Installing and running the ISAAC pipeline recipes 5.7.0

To install the ISAAC pipeline recipes 5.7.0 you will need to retrieve the pipeline distribution kit, unpack and install it.

Prerequisites:

To install this software package, the GNU C compiler (gcc) version 3.2 or newer must be available on your system.
To install the latest graphical front-end Gasgano version 2.2.7 and configure it properly the Java Developer Kit (JDK) for Linux, SunOS or for Mac version 1.5.0 must be available on your system. If not, you may download it from the official Sun Java page distribution, for example http://developer.apple.com/java/download/ for a Mac installation or http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads/ for Solaris and Linux platforms installations. Furthermore, the related java executable must be in your PATH.

You may install and run Gasgano under other operating systems or use a different JDK version, but ESO cannot guarantee that Gasgano will work correctly in such case.

Gasgano is known to be resource-intensive: see details of memory and CPU usage in Appendix A of the Gasgano User's Manual.

Note:: In order to retrieve the distribution kit, you may need to configure your Web browser so that it knows how to deal with the files we distribute, i.e., tar files (.tar filename extension). If you click on one of the links below, your browser should display a file selection panel; if you end up instead with a page full of strange characters, you may try clicking on the link while holding the Shift key down, or configure your browser.

Installation procedure:

Download the software and the static calibration data (line catalogs, reference tables and reference bad pixel map, etc.) necessary for running the pipeline recipes: ISAAC pipeline recipes distribution kit
Follow the installation instructions

Documentation

The ISAAC Pipeline User Manual is available here for download.

The GASGANO Users' Manual is available for download in the Gasgano web page.

On the EsoRex web page some online documentation about EsoRex can be found.

The CPL manuals are available on the CPL web pages.

In case of problems when opening the documents directly from your web browser, the files may be first saved on disk, and then opened with Acrobat Reader.

Bug Reports

For any issues or requests, please, send a report to the ESO User Support Department, describing:

the ISAAC pipeline recipes package release, and the release of other components (e.g., Gasgano, EsoRex, ...) you are using
the version of your OS
the exact sequence of actions that were performed before the problem occurred
what were precisely the symptoms and the possible error message(s) (if you are running Gasgano a copy of the gasgano log, if you are running with EsoRex a copy of the esorex.log file).
whether the problem is repeatable