Greetings all,

This note announces the release of HIRedux v2.0, a rather
significant upgrade to the IDL package I have developed 
for HIRES based on the MIKE pipeline that 
Scott Burles (MIT) and I have built in coordination with R. Bernstein 
(U Michigan).

It is fair to say that IDL novices will have a steep learning 
curve to ride.  Get ready for that..  I highly recommend the 
IDL Introduction Guide.  It is about 100 pages of quick reading.

If you want to skip straight to the chase, go here:

http://www.ucolick.org/~xavier/HIRedux/index.html

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What's new in V2.0:

  a. Non-parameteric optimal extraction.  The downside is that
   extraction is now quite slow.
  b. Significantly improved wavelength solutions
  c. Modest support for HIRESr wavelength solutions
  d. The code has been tested on many setups taken
	over the past year.
  e. Many v1.0 bugs have been identified and fixed.
  f. B-decker data is now reduced rather well
  g. Flux and coadding routines now exist (the former are suspect at best)
  h. New pixel flat files from my recent run (Oct 2005)

Here is still the work in progress

i. Extend the blue wavelength soultions to at least Order 118.

ii. Improve the solutions for the red cross-disperser

iii.  Placing the output to the screen into a Log file.  Or at least
important WARNING messages.

Email hiredux@ucolick.org  for questions/comments.

Cheers,

X
