New! EDPS GUI available EDPS GUI Quick Guide

 What is the ESO Data Processing System (EDPS)?

EDPS is a system to automatically organise data from ESO instruments for pipeline processing and running the pipeline on these data. At ESO, it is used for quality control and production of archival data. It is also made available to scientists who want to process ESO data with ESO provided pipelines. If you make use of EDPS for research that leads to a scientific publication, we request to reference  Freudling, Zampieri, Coccato et al 2024, A&A 681, A93.

EDPS is the recommended environment for data reduction of VLT data. All future instrument pipelines for VLT and ELT will be supported by EDPS. Support for the older EsoReflex einvironment with simlar functionalities has stopped in 2018. 

Installation

EDPS can be executed from a command line or with a GUI. This installation procedure  installs both interfaces.  

Documentation

The EDPS GUI Quick Guide describes how to reduce data with the EDPS GUI. A tutorial for executing EDPS from the command line is also available. 

A tutorial on how to write EDPS workflows is also available. The general principles of workflow designs and workflow syntax are also described in  Freudling, Zampieri, Coccato et al 2024, A&A 681, A93. We recommend users to first look at this paper. 

Feedback

Please direct any and all feedback concerning installing or using EDPS to the EDPS support team.