Spextool: A Spectral Extraction Package for SpeX, a 0.8–5.5 Micron Cross‐Dispersed Spectrograph

By M. Cushing, W. Vacca, J. Rayner. 2004

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STELLAR AND PLANETARY PROPERTIES OF K2 CAMPAIGN 1 CANDIDATES AND VALIDATION OF 17 PLANETS, INCLUDING A PLANET RECEIVING EARTH-LIKE INSOLATION (2015, methodology): “The spectrum was flat fielded, extracted, wavelength calibrated, and stacked using the Spextool package (Cushing et al. 2004).”
The surface composition of Ceres: Discovery of carbonates and iron-rich clays (2006, methodology): “The data were reduced using Spextool software provided by the IRTF (Cushing et al., 2003).”
SpeX SPECTROSCOPY OF UNRESOLVED VERY LOW MASS BINARIES. I. IDENTIFICATION OF 17 CANDIDATE BINARIES STRADDLING THE L DWARF/T DWARF TRANSITION (2009, methodology): “All data were reduced using the SpeXtool reduction package (Vacca et al. 2003; Cushing et al. 2004) using standard settings, as described in detail in Burgasser (2007b).”
BANYAN. VII. A NEW POPULATION OF YOUNG SUBSTELLAR CANDIDATE MEMBERS OF NEARBY MOVING GROUPS FROM THE BASS SURVEY (2015, methodology): “The data were reduced with the IDL SpeXTool package (Vacca et al. 2003; Cushing et al. 2004).”
NEAR-INFRARED METALLICITIES, RADIAL VELOCITIES, AND SPECTRAL TYPES FOR 447 NEARBY M DWARFS (2013, methodology): “At each pixel, we simulated Gaussian random noise using the errors returned by the SpeX pipeline, which included photon, residual sky, and read noise and which were propagated through theSpextool pipeline.”
CHARACTERIZING THE COOL KOIs. II. THE M DWARF KOI-254 AND ITS HOT JUPITER (2011, methodology): “The spectra were extracted using a version of the SpexTool program modified for the Palomar TripleSpec Spectrograph (Cushing et al. 2004).”
THE HAWAII INFRARED PARALLAX PROGRAM. I. ULTRACOOL BINARIES AND THE L/T TRANSITION, (2012, methodology): “We calibrated, extracted, and telluric-corrected all data using the SpeXtool software package (Vacca et al. 2003; Cushing et al. 2004).”
PROSPECTING IN LATE-TYPE DWARFS: A CALIBRATION OF INFRARED AND VISIBLE SPECTROSCOPIC METALLICITIES OF LATE K AND M DWARFS SPANNING 1.5 dex (2012, methodology): “Spectra were extracted and reduced using the SpeXTool package (Cushing et al. 2004), which performed flat-field correction, wavelength calibration, sky subtraction, and extraction of the one-dimentional (1D) spectrum.”
Discovery of 11 New T Dwarfs in the Two Micron All Sky Survey, Including a Possible L/T Transition Binary (2007, methodology): “We employed standard reduction techniques using the Spextool package version 3.2 (Cushing et al. 2004; Vacca et al. 2003).”
DISCOVERY OF SMALL-SCALE SPIRAL STRUCTURES IN THE DISK OF SAO 206462 (HD 135344B): IMPLICATIONS FOR THE PHYSICAL STATE OF THE DISK FROM SPIRAL DENSITY WAVE THEORY (2012, methodology): “′′8 slit (R ∼ 900) and calibrated using HD 129685 (A0V) with SpeXtool (Vacca et al. 2003; Cushing et al. 2004).”
DISCOVERY OF THREE z > 6.5 QUASARS IN THE VISTA KILO-DEGREE INFRARED GALAXY (VIKING) SURVEY (2013, methodology): “We interspersed observations of A0V stars for telluric correction, which was performed using the algorithms of Vacca et al. (2003) as implemented in the Spextool software package (Cushing et al. 2004).”
LOW-MASS TERTIARY COMPANIONS TO SPECTROSCOPIC BINARIES. I. COMMON PROPER MOTION SURVEY FOR WIDE COMPANIONS USING 2MASS (2009, methodology): “We reduced these data using Spextool (Cushing et al. 2004), an IDL based software package designed specifically for SpeX data.”
A NEARBY M STAR WITH THREE TRANSITING SUPER-EARTHS DISCOVERED BY K2 (2015, methodology): “The SpeX spectrum was reduced using the SpeXTool software package (Cushing et al. 2004).”
SPECTRO-THERMOMETRY OF M DWARFS AND THEIR CANDIDATE PLANETS: TOO HOT, TOO COOL, OR JUST RIGHT? (2013, methodology): “Spectra were extracted using the SpeXTool package (Cushing et al. 2004), which performed flat-field correction, wavelength calibration, sky subtraction, and extraction of the one-dimensional spectrum.”
A Spitzer Infrared Spectrograph Spectral Sequence of M, L, and T Dwarfs (2004, methodology): “The data were reduced using custom IDL procedures based on the Spextool (Cushing et al. 2004) data reduction package.”
CHARACTERIZING THE COOL KOIs. III. KOI 961: A SMALL STAR WITH LARGE PROPER MOTION AND THREE SMALL PLANETS (2012, methodology): “We reduced the KOI 961 spectrum with the SpexTool program, modified for Palomar TripleSpec (Cushing et al. 2004, ; M. Cushing, priv. comm.) and used spectra of nearby A0V stars for telluric removal and flux calibration with the xtellcor package (Vacca et al. 2003).”