amical 1.6.0

Description:

amical 1.6.0

(Aperture Masking Interferometry Calibration and Analysis
Library)








Installation
$ python3 -m pip install amical

What can AMICAL do for you ?
AMICAL is developed to provide an easy-to-use solution to process
Aperture Masking Interferometry (AMI) data from major existing
facilities:
NIRISS
on the JWST (first scientific interferometer operating in space),
SPHERE and
VISIR from
the European Very Large Telescope (VLT) and
VAMPIRES
from SUBARU telescope (and more to come).
We focused our efforts to propose a user-friendly interface, though different
sub-classes allowing to (1) Clean the reduced datacube from the standard
instrument pipelines, (2) Extract the interferometrical quantities
(visibilities and closure phases) using a Fourier sampling approach and (3)
Calibrate those quantities to remove the instrumental biases.
In addition (4), we include two external packages called
CANDID and
Pymask to analyse the final
outputs obtained from a binary-like sources (star-star or star-planet). We
interfaced these stand-alone packages with AMICAL to quickly estimate our
scientific results (e.g., separation, position angle, contrast ratio, contrast
limits, etc.) using different approaches (chi2 grid, MCMC, see
example_analysis.py for details).
Getting started
Looking for a quickstart into AMICAL? You can go through our tutorial explaining
how to use its different features.
You can also have a look to the example scripts
made for
NIRISS
and
SPHERE
or get details about the CANDID/Pymask uses with
example_analysis.py.
⚡ Last updates (08/2022) : New example script for IFS-SPHERE data is now available here.
Use policy and reference publication
If you use AMICAL in a publication, we encourage you to properly cite the
reference paper published during the 2020 SPIE conference: The James Webb Space
Telescope aperture masking
interferometer.
The library explanation is part of a broader description of the interferometric
mode of NIRISS, so feel free to have a look at the exciting possibilities of
AMI!
Acknowledgements
This work is mainly a modern Python translation of the very well known (and old)
IDL pipeline used to process and analyze Sparse Aperture Masking data. This
pipeline, called "Sydney code", was developed by a lot of people over many
years. Credit goes to the major developers, including Peter Tuthill, Mike
Ireland and John Monnier. Many forks exist across the web and the last IDL
version can be found here.