1st Stuttgart Research Software Day
Published February 25, 2026 | Version v1
Poster Open

The FIFI-LS Astronomy Pipeline at the SOFIA Data Center

Authors/Creators

  • 1. ROR icon University of Stuttgart

Description

The SOFIA Data Center (SDC, see poster B. Schulz) was founded in 2024 at the Institut für Raumfahrtsysteme, Universität
Stuttgart, Germany. Its goal is to re-reduce the entire scientific and technical databank of the former airborne observatory
SOFIA, using an updated and enhanced version of the data reduction pipeline package "Redux” (see poster B. Greiner). The
resulting data will be re-archived in the form of a "Virtual Observatory" hosted by the University of Stuttgart's Data
Repository. Among the pipelines being actively maintained at the SDC is that of the imaging spectrometer FIFI-LS, which
operated on SOFIA from 2014-2022, delivering a wealth of far-infrared spectral data. This poster will overview the general
functionality of the pipeline, as well as several ongoing projects to improve the quality of the data and subsequent archive.

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Additional details

Funding

Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e. V. (DLR)
SOFIA Data Center 50OK2404

Software

Repository URL
https://github.com/SOFIA-Data-Center/sofia_redux
Programming language
Python
Development Status
Active