2025-08-05 –, Kuiper Space Sciences Lecture Hall (308)
The software ecosystem for astronomical spectroscopy is in a transition period. Since 2023, an informal group of spectroscopy software developers and scientists ("SpectroscopyDev") have been meeting regularly to coordinate activities and discuss developments in the field. This group is an outcome of the meeting "Coordinating the Next Generation of Spectroscopic Processing and Analysis Tools", November 2023 (https://noirlab.edu/science/documents/scidoc3085), which itself was an outcome of the "Future of Astronomical Data Infrastructure", February 2023 (https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.04272), also known as the "Flatiron Meeting". We include developers of multi-instrument reduction packages such as PypeIt (https://pypeit.readthedocs.io/en/stable/), specutils (https://specutils.readthedocs.io/en/stable/) and specreduce (https://specreduce.readthedocs.io/en/stable/), as well as more instrument-specific packages such as DRAGONS for Gemini (https://dragons.readthedocs.io/en/stable/) and the desispec for DESI (https://desispec.readthedocs.io/en/latest/). In addition to coordinating software development, we are also documenting a common set of terms (https://specreduce.readthedocs.io/en/latest/terms.html), to assist with cross-project communication. We invite the entire community to participate in more detailed descriptions of our activities, provide feedback and assist in future planning.
