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Millar-Blanchaer
Research Group

University of California, Santa Barbara

EXOPLANETS · POLARIMETRY · HIGH-CONTRAST IMAGING

SOFTWARE ~/software

As part of my research I have led the development of and contributed to a range of projects, including:

  • The GPI Data Reduction Pipeline — The main data reduction pipeline for the Gemini Planet Imager [FREE DOWNLOAD]
  • The WIRC+Pol Data Reduction Pipeline — The main data reduction pipeline for WIRC+Pol [FREE DOWNLOAD]
  • PSISIM — A tool to simulate science outputs from high-contrast imagers, spectrographs and polarimeters [FREE DOWNLOAD]
  • pyMuellerMat — A library to generate and work with flexible Mueller Matrices for simulating polarimeters [FREE DOWNLOAD]
  • pyklip — A post-processing library for high-contrast data [FREE DOWNLOAD]
  • GRaTeR-JAX — GRaTeR-JAX provides tools for JAX-enhanced forward modeling of scattered light debris disk images. [FREE DOWNLOAD]

Please check out my Github Page for my recent activity!

Documentation is always under construction. Pull requests welcome.