A Data Reduction Pipeline for Gemini-North’s Near-infrared Integral Field Spectrometer

Abstract

We present a python package, called Nifty4Gemini , and its associated Pyraf/Python based pipeline for processing Gemini-North Near-Infrared Integral Field Spectrometer (NIFS) observations. Built on the Gemini IRAF package’s capabilities, Nifty4Gemini 's associated NIFS pipeline is a data reduction package which reduces NIFS raw data and produces a flux and wavelength calibrate science cube with the full signal-to-noise ratio, ready for science analysis. It utilizes tasks from the Gemini IRAF package, PyRAF, and packages from the Gemini AstroConda environment. Nifty4Gemini is a configuration-based pipeline framework written in python which is easily extensible to integrate additional pipelines and user-defined scripts. Nifty4Gemini is open source and available for download at  https://github.com/mrlb05/Nifty4Gemini with its documentation available at  https://nifty4gemini.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ . A permanent version of the software described in this paper is archived at  https://zenodo.org/record/1000413 .