Final thesis: PISCO: a Pipeline for the Infrared Spectroscopy of COmets. Application to VLT/CRIRES observations of comet 8P/Tuttle

Abstract

This work focuses on the development of the Pipeline for the Infrared Spectroscopy of COmets (PISCO), an integrated compilation of tools and home-made scripts aimed to efficiently and entirely process IR comet observations, from raw images to yielding the production rates. It is part of a starting effort from the Comet group of the STAR Institute of the University of Liège to develop IR spectroscopy capabilities with the ultimate goal of making joint observation campaigns of both the parent species (detectable in the IR) and daughter species (detectable in the UV-Vis) in comets. Challenges and perspectives for the study of comets and multiwavelength spectroscopy are presented. The different steps of PISCO are described in details, before using the pipeline to process a 8P/Tuttle comet CRIRES dataset. Finally, possible improvements are discussed.