News

The SOAR Board meets in person every year, typically in August (more often if needed). As part of the meeting, the Director presents a report on SOAR projects. Since a lot has happened over the last year, and will be continuing into next year, the report (with some minor edits) is being more generally available at this link. The report summarizes the status on a variety of projects, where those of particular interest include:

We announce the first release of the Goodman Data-Reduction Pipeline (DRP), a Python-based package for producing science-ready, wavelength-calibrated, one-dimensional (1-D) spectra. The pipeline is an ongoing work aimed to provide SOAR users with an easy to use, documented software package for reducing images and spectra obtained with the Goodman High-Throughput Spectrograph.