TRIPP: An Aperture Photometry Package for the Reduction of CCD Time Series Images

Abstract

TRIPP is an aperture photometry program designed with the purpose of extracting light curves from large sets of similar CCD frames typically obtained during time-resolved photometric monitoring campaigns such as, for example, WET runs. We describe its properties and usage with an emphasis on where the functionality of TRIPP may differ from similar programs, and try to outline both its strengths as well as the non-trivial issues where difficulties may arise.

Keywords

• techniques
• image processing techniques
• photometric