NAME

       vmifucombinecube  -  Rearrange  into  cube  format  images  of  extracted  spectraproduced by vmifucalib,
       vmifuscience, and vmifustandard.

SYNOPSIS

       esorex vmifucombinecube [OPTIONS] FILE.sof

DESCRIPTION

       This recipe is used to rearrange into a single cube the images of extracted spectra from different  VIMOS
       quadrants.  Such  images  are created by the recipes vmifucalib, vmifuscience, and vmifustandard, and the
       classification tag of the product depends on the classification tag of the inputs:

                Input                         Output

          IFU_ARC_SPECTRUM_EXTRACTED    IFU_ARC_SPECTRUM_CUBE
          IFU_FLAT_SPECTRUM_EXTRACTED   IFU_FLAT_SPECTRUM_CUBE
          IFU_SCIENCE_REDUCED           IFU_SCIENCE_CUBE
          IFU_SCIENCE_FLUX_REDUCED      IFU_SCIENCE_FLUX_CUBE
          IFU_STANDARD_REDUCED          IFU_STANDARD_CUBE

       The input images must belong to different quadrants, so that they cannot be more than  4.  The  allocated
       cubes  are  the  smallest  possible, depending on the number of quadrants involved and on whether the IFU
       shutter was on or off. The smallest cubes (20x20xN) are produced when just one quadrant is input and  the
       shutter was on. The largest cubes (80x80xN) are produced when 3 or more quadrants are given in input (and
       when either quadrants 1 and 3, or 2 and 4, are input), and the  shutter  was  off.  Pixels  belonging  to
       missing quadrants are padded with zeroes if necessary.

OPTIONS

       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.

SEE ALSO

       The full documentation for the vimos pipeline can be downloaded as a PDF file using the following URL:

              ftp://ftp.eso.org/pub/dfs/pipelines/vimos/vimos-pipeline-manual-6.9.pdf

       An   overview   over   the   existing   ESO   pipelines    can    be    found    on    the    web    page
       https://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
       https://packages.python.org/python-cpl/index.html for further information.

       The  other  recipes  of  the  vimos  pipeline  are   vmbias(7),   vmdark(7),   vmdet(7),   vmifucalib(7),
       vmifucombine(7),  vmifuscience(7),  vmifustandard(7),  vmimcalphot(7), vmimflatscreen(7), vmimflatsky(7),
       vmimobsjitter(7), vmimobsstare(7), vmimpreimaging(7),  vmimstandard(7),  vmmoscalib(7),  vmmosscience(7),
       vmspphot(7)

VERSION

       vmifucombinecube 3.3.0

AUTHOR

       ESO VIMOS Pipeline Team and VIMOS Consortium <usd-help@eso.org>

BUG REPORTS

       Please  report  any  problems  to  usd-help@eso.org. Alternatively, you may send a report to the ESO User
       Support Department <usd-help@eso.org>.

LICENSE

       This file is currently part of the VIMOS Instrument Pipeline Copyright (C)  2002-2011  European  Southern
       Observatory

       This  program  is  free  software;  you  can  redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU
       General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License,  or
       (at your option) any later version.

       This  program  is  distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even
       the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU  General  Public
       License for more details.

       You  should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write
       to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA  02110-1301  USA