DRAGONS -- A Quick Overview

TL;DR

DRAGONS is an open-source Python platform that automates the reduction and processing of astronomical imaging and spectroscopic data, primarily for Gemini Observatory, facilitating efficient data analysis workflows.

Contribution

It introduces a comprehensive, automated data reduction pipeline for Gemini Observatory's imaging and spectroscopic data, supporting extensions for other instruments.

Findings

Supports automated reduction of Gemini imaging data

Enables processing of optical longslit spectroscopic data

Extensible to other telescopes and instruments

Abstract

DRAGONS (Data Reduction for Astronomy from Gemini Observatory North and South) is a platform for the reduction and processing of astronomical data. The Python-based, open-source package includes infrastructure for automation and algorithms for the processing of imaging and spectroscopic data, up to the analysis-ready stage. DRAGONS currently focuses on the reduction of Gemini data, although it allows for support of data from other instruments and telescopes through third-party extensions. Its latest release (v3.1) enables automated reduction of all currently-active Gemini imaging facility instruments, as well as optical longslit spectroscopic data, acquired with GMOS.