Welcome to Virus Health Check’s documentation!

The Virus Health Check (VHC) software checks the health and correctness of the fits files created during Hobby-Eberly Telescope (HET) observations. The software is created specifically for HET Dark Energy Experiment (HETDEX), but it has been designed to be extended to other user cases.

VHC is written in python and supports at least python 2.7 and 3.4.

This documentation describes how to use VHC, the design behind it, how to contribute to it and which checks are already implemented. The structure of the documentation is the following: