.. title:: Overview

The AMBER 4.4.3 pipeline
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These pages describe the python interface for the AMBER pipeline recipes.

Standard recipes
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:data:`amber_BeamPos`
   AMBER Beam Monitoring Recipe

:data:`amber_SciCal`
   AMBER Science and Calibration Recipe

:data:`amber_detector`
   AMBER raw data detector

:data:`amber_p2vm`
   AMBER Pixel-To-Visibility-Matrix for 2- and 3-Telescopes Mode

Additional recipes
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:data:`amber_ascii_export`
   AMBER frame data to ASCII export

:data:`amber_calibrate`
   AMBER Derives calibrated visibilities

:data:`amber_oimerge`
   AMBER Merge OI-Fits files

:data:`amber_raw_to_fitsimage`
   AMBER raw data display

:data:`amber_selector`
   AMBER OI frame selector

:data:`amber_spectral_calibration`
   AMBER Offset between photo. and interf. channels

:data:`amber_trf`
   AMBER Derives the transfer function

.. toctree::
   :hidden:

   amber_BeamPos
   amber_SciCal
   amber_detector
   amber_p2vm
   amber_ascii_export
   amber_calibrate
   amber_oimerge
   amber_raw_to_fitsimage
   amber_selector
   amber_spectral_calibration
   amber_trf

.. seealso::

     * The `AMBER Pipeline User Manual 
       <ftp://ftp.eso.org/pub/dfs/pipelines/amber/amber-pipeline-manual-4.2.2.pdf>`_ in PDF format,

     * an `overview <https://www.eso.org/sci/software/pipelines/>`_
       over the existing ESO pipelines,

     * the `python-cpl <https://packages.python.org/python-cpl>`_ package.
    
Bug reports
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If you experience an unexpected behavior of any component of the AMBER
pipeline recipes package, please, first refer to the list of known problems
and limitations in the pipeline manual of the current AMBER pipeline
release.

For any other issues or requests, please, send a report to the `ESO User
Support Department <usd-help@eso.org>`_, describing:

 * the AMBER pipeline version,
 * the version of your OS and C compiler,
 * the exact sequence of actions that were performed before the problem occurred,
 * what were precisely the symptoms and the possible error message(s),
 * whether the problem is repeatable.