Correcting Observations for Telluric Absorption: molecfit
Molecfit is a software tool to correct astronomical observations for atmospheric absorption features, based on fitting synthetic transmission spectra to the astronomical data. It can also estimate molecular abundances, especially the water vapour content of the Earth’s atmosphere.
The software releases here are fully compliant to ESO official releases. For dedicated subversion see our spin-off projects page.
Manuals
Molecfit User Manual
Molecfit GUI and Tutorial
Publications
If you use the software it is highly desired that you cite the papers and give a footnote or acknowledgement ot the page http://www.uibk.ac.at/eso/software. Too keep track (also for our funding agency) it would be nice to receive reprints or ADS/arxiv links if you do so.
Molecfit: A general tool for telluric absorption correction I. Method and application to ESO instruments
A. Smette, H. Sana, S. Noll, H. Horst, W. Kausch, S. Kimeswenger, M.Barden, C. Szyszka, A. M. Jones, A. Gallene, J. Vinther, and P. Ballester, 2015, A&A in press.
Molecfit: A general tool for telluric absorption correction II. Quantitative evaluation on ESO-VLT/X-Shooter spectra
W. Kausch, S. Noll, A. Smette, S. Kimeswenger, M. Barden, C. Szyszka, A. M. Jones, H. Sana, H. Horst, and F. Kerber, 2015, A&A in press.
Download: Installation packages
The latest version of the installers:
GNU/Linux 32 bit x86
GNU/Linux 64 bit x86
MacOS 64 bit x86
The installers include example data and configurations for XSHOOTER, CRIRES and VISIR instruments.
The installation procedure is described here.
Please contact the team for more details. See also the ESO web pages.