# Fully-Automated Reduction of Longslit Spectroscopy with the Low Resolution Imaging Spectrometer at Keck Observatory

## TL;DR

The paper introduces LPipe, an automated software for reducing LRIS longslit spectroscopic data at Keck Observatory, supporting various configurations and enabling quicklook, archival, and science-quality reductions.

## Contribution

It presents LPipe, a comprehensive, fully-automated reduction pipeline for LRIS data, capable of handling all gratings and dichroics, and applicable for diverse observational needs.

## Key findings

- Successfully reduced 675 LRIS longslit datasets in a year
- Pipeline is suitable for quicklook, archival, and high-quality science reductions
- Reduced spectra and pipeline are publicly available

## Abstract

I present and summarize a software package ("LPipe") for completely automated, end-to-end reduction of both bright and faint sources with the Low-Resolution Imaging Spectrometer (LRIS) at Keck Observatory. It supports all gratings, grisms, and dichroics, and also reduces imaging observations, although it does not include multislit or polarimetric reduction capabilities at present. It is suitable for on-the-fly quicklook reductions at the telescope, for large-scale reductions of archival data-sets, and (in many cases) for science-quality post-run reductions of PI data. To demonstrate its capabilities the pipeline is run in fully-automated mode on all LRIS longslit data in the Keck Observatory Archive acquired during the 12-month period between August 2016 and July 2017. The reduced spectra (of 675 single-object targets, totaling ~200 hours of on-source integration time in each camera), and the pipeline itself, are made publicly available to the community.