.. title:: Overview

The GIRAF 2.11.1 pipeline
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These pages describe the python interface for the GIRAF pipeline recipes.

Standard recipes
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:data:`gimasterbias`
   Creates a master bias image from a set of raw biases.

:data:`gimasterdark`
   Creates a master dark image from a set of raw dark frames.

:data:`gimasterflat`
   Create the fiber master flat field and the localization mask.

:data:`giwavecalibration`
   Compute dispersion solution from an arc-lamp spectrum.

:data:`gistandard`
   Process a spectro-photometric standard star observation and compute the instrument response curve.

:data:`giscience`
   Process a science observation.

Additional recipes
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:data:`giframestack`
   Creates a stacked image from a set of raw images.

.. toctree::
   :hidden:

   gimasterbias
   gimasterdark
   gimasterflat
   giwavecalibration
   gistandard
   giscience
   giframestack

.. seealso::

     * The `GIRAF Pipeline User Manual 
       <ftp://ftp.eso.org/pub/dfs/pipelines/giraffe/giraf-pipeline-manual-2.11.pdf>`_ in PDF format,

     * an `overview <http://www.eso.org/sci/software/pipelines/>`_
       over the existing ESO pipelines,

     * the `python-cpl <http://packages.python.org/python-cpl>`_ package.
    
Bug reports
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If you experience an unexpected behavior of any component of the GIRAF
pipeline recipes package, please, first refer to the list of known problems
and limitations in the pipeline manual of the current GIRAF pipeline
release.

For any other issues or requests, please, send a report to the `ESO User
Support Department <usd-help@eso.org>`_, describing:

 * the GIRAF pipeline version,
 * the version of your OS and C compiler,
 * the exact sequence of actions that were performed before the problem occurred,
 * what were precisely the symptoms and the possible error message(s),
 * whether the problem is repeatable.
