Quality Control and
Data Processing

The Spectro-Polarimetric High-contrast Exoplanet REsearch - SPHERE - is the extreme adaptive optics system and coronagraphic facility at the VLT. Its primary science goal is imaging, low-resolution spectroscopic, and polarimetric characterization of extra-solar planetary systems at optical and near-infrared wavelengths. SPHERE consists for four arms: the common path infrastructure (CPI) with the AO system and the coronograph, the infrared integral field spectrograph (IFS), the infrared dual-band imager and spectrograph (IRDIS) and the Zurich imaging polarimeter (ZIMPOL) operating in the optical. These pages contain information about SPHERE Quality Control, pipeline processing, and data flow operations.

Please refer also to

• the SPHERE instrument pages for general information and news about the instrument
• the ESO pipeline pages for the pipeline release
• the SPHERE-specific query form of the ESO archive for data downloads.