fors_wave_calib (7)

esorex fors_wave_calib [OPTIONS] FILE.sof

This recipe is used to wavelength calibrate MOS/MXU slit spectra contained in the rectified arc lamp exposure produced with recipe fors_extract_slits.

A pattern-matching algorithm is applied as in recipe fors_detect_spectra.

The input spatial map is used in the production of the wavelength map.

Use recipe fors_wave_calib_lss for LSS data, or for MOS/MXU data where all slits have the same offset. For more details on this data reduction strategy please refer to the FORS Pipeline User\'s Manual.

Note that specifying an input GRISM_TABLE will set some of the recipe configuration parameters to default values valid for a particular grism.

In the table below the MXU acronym can be alternatively read as MOS.

Input files:

  DO category:               Type:       Explanation:         Required:
  SPATIAL_MAP_MXU            Calib       Spatial map             Y
  RECTIFIED_LAMP_MXU         Calib       Rectified arc exposure  Y
  SLIT_LOCATION_MXU          Calib       Slit location table     Y
  CURV_COEFF_MXU             Calib       Spectral curvature      Y
  MASTER_LINECAT             Calib       Line catalog            Y
  GRISM_TABLE                Calib       Grism table             .

Output files:

  DO category:               Data type:  Explanation:
  REDUCED_LAMP_MXU           FITS image  Calibrated arc lamp exposure
  DISP_COEFF_MXU             FITS table  Inverse dispersion coefficients
  DISP_RESIDUALS_MXU         FITS image  Image of modeling residuals
  WAVELENGTH_MAP_MXU         FITS image  Wavelengths mapped on CCD
  SPECTRAL_RESOLUTION_MXU    FITS table  Spectral resolution table

--dispersion <float>

Expected spectral dispersion (Angstrom/pixel) (float; default: 0.0). The full name of this option for the EsoRex configuration file is fors.fors_wave_calib.dispersion [default = 0.0].

--peakdetection <float>

Initial peak detection threshold (ADU) (float; default: 0.0). The full name of this option for the EsoRex configuration file is fors.fors_wave_calib.peakdetection [default = 0.0].

--wdegree <long>

Degree of wavelength calibration polynomial (long; default: 0). The full name of this option for the EsoRex configuration file is fors.fors_wave_calib.wdegree [default = 0].

--wradius <long>

Search radius if iterating pattern-matching with first-guess method (long; default: 4). The full name of this option for the EsoRex configuration file is fors.fors_wave_calib.wradius [default = 4].

--wreject <float>

Rejection threshold in dispersion relation fit (pixel) (float; default: 0.7). The full name of this option for the EsoRex configuration file is fors.fors_wave_calib.wreject [default = 0.7].

--wcolumn <str>

Name of line catalog table column with wavelengths (str; default: \'WLEN\'). The full name of this option for the EsoRex configuration file is fors.fors_wave_calib.wcolumn [default = WLEN].

--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_wave_calib.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_wave_calib.endwavelength [default = 0.0].

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_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(7)

fors_wave_calib 5.0.0

Carlo Izzo <[email protected]>

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This file is currently part of the FORS Instrument Pipeline Copyright (C) 2002-2010 European Southern Observatory

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