Reflex: Scientific Workflows for the ESO Pipelines

TL;DR

Reflex is an interactive scientific workflow environment built on Kepler, designed to streamline ESO VLT data reduction pipelines, enhance data validation, and facilitate complex data processing tasks.

Contribution

This paper introduces Reflex, a new workflow system based on Kepler, tailored for ESO data pipelines, with features for data organization, pipeline execution, and interactive analysis.

Findings

Reflex simplifies and accelerates data reduction workflows.

Demonstrated effectiveness on UVES echelle data.

Enhances validation and data processing efficiency.

Abstract

The recently released Reflex scientific workflow environment supports the interactive execution of ESO VLT data reduction pipelines. Reflex is based upon the Kepler workflow engine, and provides components for organising the data, executing pipeline recipes based on the ESO Common Pipeline Library, invoking Python scripts, and constructing interaction loops. Reflex will greatly enhance the quick validation and reduction of the scientific data. In this paper we summarize the main features of Reflex, and demonstrate as an example its application to the reduction of echelle UVES data.