Extraction of scientific spectra
esorex fors_science [OPTIONS] FILE.sof
This recipe is used to reduce scientific spectra using the extraction mask and the products created by the recipe fors_calib. The spectra are bias subtracted, flat fielded (if a normalised flat field is specified) and remapped eliminating the optical distortions. The wavelength calibration can be optionally upgraded using a number of sky lines: if no sky lines catalog of wavelengths is specified, an internal one is used instead.
If the alignment to the sky lines is performed, the input dispersion coefficients table is upgraded and saved to disk, and a new CCD wavelengths map is created.
This recipe accepts both FORS1 and FORS2 frames. A grism table (typically depending on the instrument mode, and in particular on the grism used) may also be specified: this table contains a default recipe parameter setting to control the way spectra are extracted for a specific instrument mode, as it is used for automatic run of the pipeline on Paranal and in Garching. If this table is specified, it will modify the default recipe parameter setting, with the exception of those parameters which have been explicitly modifyed on the command line. If a grism table is not specified, the input recipe parameters values will always be read from the command line, or from an esorex configuration file if present, or from their generic default values (that are rarely meaningful).
In the table below the MXU acronym can be read alternatively as MOS and LSS, depending on the instrument mode of the input data. The acronym SCI on products should be read STD in case of standard stars observations A CURV_COEFF table is not (yet) expected for LSS data.
Either a scientific or a standard star exposure can be specified in input.
Only in case of a standard star exposure input, the atmospheric extinction table and a table with the physical fluxes of the observed standard star must be specified in input, and a spectro-photometric table is created in output. This table can then be input again to this recipe, always with an atmospheric extinction table, and if a photometric calibration is requested then flux calibrated spectra (in units of erg/cm/cm/s/Angstrom) are also written in output.
Input files:
DO category: Type: Explanation: Required: SCIENCE_MXU Raw Scientific exposure Y or STANDARD_MXU Raw Standard star exposure Y MASTER_BIAS Calib Master bias Y GRISM_TABLE Calib Grism table .
MASTER_SKYLINECAT Calib Sky lines catalog .
MASTER_NORM_FLAT_MXU Calib Normalised flat field .
DISP_COEFF_MXU Calib Inverse dispersion Y CURV_COEFF_MXU Calib Spectral curvature Y SLIT_LOCATION_MXU Calib Slits positions table Y FLAT_DISP_PROFILE_MXU Calib Slits dispersion profile .
or, in case of LSS-like MOS/MXU data,
MASTER_NORM_FLAT_LONG_MXU Calib Normalised flat field .
DISP_COEFF_LONG_MXU Calib Inverse dispersion Y SLIT_LOCATION_LONG_MXU Calib Slits positions table Y GLOBAL_DISTORTION_TABLE Calib Global distortion .
In case STANDARD_MXU is specified in input,
EXTINCT_TABLE Calib Atmospheric extinction Y STD_FLUX_TABLE Calib Standard star flux Y TELLURIC_CONTAMINATION Calib Telluric regions list .
The following input files are mandatory if photometric calibrated spectra are desired:
EXTINCT_TABLE Calib Atmospheric extinction Y SPECPHOT_TABLE Calib Response curves Y
If requested for standard star data, the SPECPHOT_TABLE can be dropped: in this case the correction is applied using the SPECPHOT_TABLE produced in the same run.
Output files:
DO category: Data type: Explanation: REDUCED_SCI_MXU FITS image Extracted scientific spectra REDUCED_SKY_SCI_MXU FITS image Extracted sky spectra REDUCED_ERROR_SCI_MXU FITS image Errors on extracted spectra UNMAPPED_SCI_MXU FITS image Sky subtracted scientific spectra MAPPED_SCI_MXU FITS image Rectified scientific spectra MAPPED_ALL_SCI_MXU FITS image Rectified science spectra with sky MAPPED_SKY_SCI_MXU FITS image Rectified sky spectra UNMAPPED_SKY_SCI_MXU FITS image Sky on CCD OBJECT_TABLE_SCI_MXU FITS table Positions of detected objects
Only if the global sky subtraction is requested: GLOBAL_SKY_SPECTRUM_MXU FITS table Global sky spectrum
Only if the sky-alignment of the wavelength solution is requested: SKY_SHIFTS_LONG_SCI_MXU FITS table Sky lines offsets (LSS-like data) or SKY_SHIFTS_SLIT_SCI_MXU FITS table Sky lines offsets (MOS-like data) DISP_COEFF_SCI_MXU FITS table Upgraded dispersion coefficients WAVELENGTH_MAP_SCI_MXU FITS image Upgraded wavelength map
Only if a STANDARD_MXU is specified in input: SPECPHOT_TABLE FITS table Efficiency and response curves
Only if a photometric calibration was requested: REDUCED_FLUX_SCI_MXU FITS image Flux calibrated scientific spectra REDUCED_FLUX_ERROR_SCI_MXU FITS image Errors on flux calibrated spectra MAPPED_FLUX_SCI_MXU FITS image Flux calibrated slit spectra
--dispersion <float>
Resampling step (Angstrom/pixel) (float; default: 0.0). The full name of this option for the EsoRex configuration file is fors.fors_science.dispersion [default = 0.0].
--skyalign <long>
Polynomial order for sky lines alignment, or -1 to avoid alignment (long; default: -1). The full name of this option for the EsoRex configuration file is fors.fors_science.skyalign [default = -1].
--startwavelength <float>
Start wavelength in spectral extraction (float; default: 0.0). The full name of this option for the EsoRex configuration file is fors.fors_science.startwavelength [default = 0.0].
--endwavelength <float>
End wavelength in spectral extraction (float; default: 0.0). The full name of this option for the EsoRex configuration file is fors.fors_science.endwavelength [default = 0.0].
--flatfield <bool>
Apply flat field (bool; default: True). The full name of this option for the EsoRex configuration file is fors.fors_science.flatfield [default = True].
--skyglobal <bool>
Subtract global sky spectrum from CCD (bool; default: False). The full name of this option for the EsoRex configuration file is fors.fors_science.skyglobal [default = False].
--skymedian <bool>
Sky subtraction from extracted slit spectra (bool; default: False). The full name of this option for the EsoRex configuration file is fors.fors_science.skymedian [default = False].
--skylocal <bool>
Sky subtraction from CCD slit spectra (bool; default: True). The full name of this option for the EsoRex configuration file is fors.fors_science.skylocal [default = True].
--cosmics <bool>
Eliminate cosmic rays hits (only if global sky subtraction is also requested) (bool; default: False). The full name of this option for the EsoRex configuration file is fors.fors_science.cosmics [default = False].
--slit_margin <long>
Number of pixels to exclude at each slit in object detection and extraction (long; default: 3). The full name of this option for the EsoRex configuration file is fors.fors_science.slit_margin [default = 3].
--ext_radius <long>
Maximum extraction radius for detected objects (pixel) (long; default: 12). The full name of this option for the EsoRex configuration file is fors.fors_science.ext_radius [default = 12].
--cont_radius <long>
Minimum distance at which two objects of equal luminosity do not contaminate each other (pixel) (long; default: 0). The full name of this option for the EsoRex configuration file is fors.fors_science.cont_radius [default = 0].
--ext_mode <long>
Object extraction method: 0 = aperture, 1 = Horne optimal extraction (long; default: 1). The full name of this option for the EsoRex configuration file is fors.fors_science.ext_mode [default = 1].
--resp_fit_nknots <long>
Number of knots in spline fitting of the instrument response. (-1: No fitting. -2: Read from grism table) (long; default: -2). The full name of this option for the EsoRex configuration file is fors.fors_science.resp_fit_nknots [default = -2].
--resp_fit_degree <long>
Degree of polynomial in fitting of the instrument response. (-1: No fitting. -2: Read from grism table) (long; default: -2). The full name of this option for the EsoRex configuration file is fors.fors_science.resp_fit_degree [default = -2].
--resp_ignore_mode <str>
Types of lines/regions to ignore in response. Valid ones are \'stellar_absorption\', \'telluric\' and \'command_line\' (from parameter resp_ignore_lines) (str; default: \'stellar_absorption,telluric,command_line\'). The full name of this option for the EsoRex configuration file is fors.fors_science.resp_ignore_mode [default = stellar_absorption,telluric,command_line].
--resp_ignore_points <str>
Extra lines/regions to ignore in response. Use a comma separated list of values. A range can be specified like 4500.0-4600.0 (str; default: \'\'). The full name of this option for the EsoRex configuration file is fors.fors_science.resp_ignore_points [default = ].
--resp_use_flat_sed <str>
Use the flat SED to normalise the observed spectra. Value are true, false, grism_table. (str; default: \'grism_table\'). The full name of this option for the EsoRex configuration file is fors.fors_science.resp_use_flat_sed [default = grism_table].
Note that it is possible to create a configuration file containing these options, along with suitable default values. Please refer to the details provided by the 'esorex --help' command.
The full documentation for the fors pipeline can be downloaded as a PDF file using the following URL:
ftp://ftp.eso.org/pub/dfs/pipelines/fors/fors-pipeline-manual-4.9.pdf
An overview over the existing ESO pipelines can be found on the web page http://www.eso.org/sci/software/pipelines/.
Basic documentation about the EsoRex program can be found at the esorex (1) man page.
It is possible to call the pipelines from python using the python-cpl package. See http://packages.python.org/python-cpl/index.html for further information.
The other recipes of the fors pipeline are fors_wave_calib_lss(7), fors_img_sky_flat(7), fors_resample(7), fors_config(7), fors_extract_objects(7), fors_calib(7), fors_wave_calib(7), fors_detect_objects(7), fors_pmos_science(7), fors_extract_slits(7), test_hough(7), fors_img_screen_flat(7), fors_extract(7), fors_remove_bias(7), fors_subtract_sky(7), fors_normalise_flat(7), montecarlo(7), fors_photometry(7), fors_zeropoint(7), fors_dark(7), fors_subtract_sky_lss(7), fors_trace_flat(7), fors_flatfield(7), fors_img_science(7), fors_detect_spectra(7), fors_sumflux(7), fors_pmos_extract(7), fors_align_sky_lss(7), fors_bias(7), fors_align_sky(7), fors_pmos_calib(7), fors_spec_mflat(7)
fors_science 5.0.0
Carlo Izzo <[email protected]>
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