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Triplespec is a near-IR spectrograph, constructed at the University of Virginia. Other versions of the instrument have been used at the Palomar 200-inch and the SOAR telescope.

Triplespec provides spectra in 5 orders, with a slit-length of 43 arcsec

Triplespec instrument manual on APO website

* IDL-based alternatives

• Tspectool is an IDL data reduction tool based on SpexTool. See
  • Cushing, Vacca & Rayner 'Spextool: A Spectral Extraction Package for SpeX, a 0.8-5.5 Micron Cross-Dispersed Spectrograph'
  • Vacca, Cushing & Rayner 'A Method of Correcting Near-Infrared Spectra for Telluric Absorption'

* IRAF-based alternatives

* Python-based alternatives

• pyvista : a general basic, pedagogical, reduction package that has configuration files for TSPEC and a notebook demonstrating basic reduction
• PypeIt : a general package for optimal extraction of spectrograph data, including echelle data. Work is in progress on a configuration for TSPEC.