Flame: A Flexible Data Reduction Pipeline for Near-Infrared and Optical Spectroscopy

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We present flame, a pipeline for reducing spectroscopic observations obtained with multi-slit near-infrared and optical instruments.

• Because of its flexible design, flame can be easily applied to data obtained with a wide variety of spectrographs.
• The flexibility is due to a modular architecture, which allows changes and customizations to the pipeline, and relegates the instrument-specific parts to a single module.
• At the core of the data reduction is the transformation from observed pixel coordinates (x, y) to rectified coordinates (lambda, gamma).