Advanced Data Reduction for the MUSE Deep Fields

Abstract

The Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE) is an integral-field spectrograph operating in the visible wavelength range, and installed at the Very Large Telescope (VLT). The official MUSE pipeline is available from ESO. However, for the data reduction of the Deep Fields program (Bacon et al., in prep.), we have built a more sophisticated reduction pipeline, with additional reduction tasks, to extend the official pipeline and produce cubes with fewer instrumental residuals.