vip_hci 0.8.1

Package for astronomical high-contrast image processing.

VIP - Vortex Image Processing package

Introduction

VIP is a package/pipeline for angular, reference star and spectral differential imaging for exoplanet/disk detection through high-contrast imaging. VIP is being developed in Python 2.7. There is effort ongoing for Python 3 compatibility.

Most of VIP’s functionalities are mature but it doesn’t mean it’s free from bugs. The code will continue evolving and therefore all the feedback and contributions will be greatly appreciated. If you want to report a bug, suggest or add a functionality please create an issue or send a pull request on the Github repository.

Jupyter notebook tutorial

VIP tutorial (Jupyter notebook) is available in this repository and can be visualized online here. If you are new to the Jupyter notebook application read the beginner guide. TL;DR download the tutorial from its repository and from the terminal run:

$ cd <path_to_tutorial_folder>
$ jupyter-notebook

Documentation

Documentation can be found in http://vip.readthedocs.io/.

Quick Setup Guide

Run:

$ pip install vip_hci

That’s it! Read the documentation for a complete installation guide.

Mailing list

You can subscribe to our mailing list if you want to be informed of the latest developments of the VIP package (new versions and/or updates).

Attribution

Please cite Gomez Gonzalez et al. 2017 (http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/aa73d7/) whenever you publish data reduced with VIP. Astrophysics Source Code Library reference [ascl:1603.003].