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NAME
kmo_flat - Create master flatfield frame and badpixel map to be used during science
reduction
SYNOPSIS
esorex kmo_flat [OPTIONS] FILE.sof
DESCRIPTION
This recipe creates the master flat field and calibration frames needed for spatial
calibration for all three detectors. It must be called after the kmo_dark-recipe, which
generates a bad pixel mask (badpixel_dark.fits). The bad pixel mask will be updated in
this recipe (goes into badpixel_flat.fits).
As input at least 3 dark frames, 3 frames with the flat lamp on are recommen- ded.
Additionally a badpixel mask from kmo_dark is required.
The badpixel mask contains 0 for bad pixels and 1 for good ones.
The structure of the resulting xcal and ycal frames is quite complex since the arrangement
of the IFUs isn´t just linear on the detector. Basically the inte- ger part of the
calibration data shows the offset of each pixels centre in mas (Milli arcsec) from the
field centre. The viewing of an IFU is 2800mas (14pix*0.2arcsec/pix). So the values in
these two frames will vary between +/-1500 (One would expect 1400, but since the slitlets
aren´t expected to be exactly vertical, the values can even go up to around 1500).
Additionally in the calibration data in y-direction the decimal part of the data
designates the IFU to which the slitlet corresponds to (for each detector from 1 to 8).
Because of the irregular arrangement of the IFUs not all x-direction calibra- tion data is
found in xcal and similarly not all y-direction calibration data is located in ycal. For
certain IFUs they are switched and/or flipped in x- or y-direction: For IFUs
1,2,3,4,13,14,15,16: x- and y- data is switched For IFUs
17,18,19,20: y-data is flipped For IFUs 21,22,23,24: x-data is
flipped For IFUs 5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12: x- and y- data is switched and x- and
y- data is flipped
Furthermore frames can be provided for several rotator angles. In this case the resulting
calibration frames for each detector are repeatedly saved as extension for every angle.
Advanced features: ------------------ To create the badpixel mask the edges of all
slitlets are fitted to a polyno- mial. Since it can happen that some of these fits (3
detectors * 8 IFUs * 14slitlets * 2 edges (left and right edge of slitlet)= 672 edges)
fail, the fit parameters are themselves fitted again to detect any outliers. By default
the parameters of all left and all right edges are grouped individually and then fitted
using chebyshev polynomials. The advantage of a chebyshev polyno- mial is, that it
consists in fact of a series of orthogonal polynomials. This implies that the parameters
of the polynomials are independent. This fact pre- destines the use of chebyshev
polynomials for our case. So each individual pa- rameter can be examined independently.
The reason why the left and right edges are fitted individually is that there is a
systematic pattern specific to these groups. The reason for this pattern is probably to be
found in the opti- cal path the light is traversing.
The behaviour of this fitting step can be influenced via environment parameters: *
KF_ALLPARS (default: 1)
When set to 1 all coefficients of the polynomial of an edge are to be cor-
rected, also when just one of these coefficients is an outlier. When set to
0 only the outlier is to be corrected.
* KF_CH (default: 1)
When set to 1 chebyshev polynomials are used to fit the fitted parameters.
When set to 0 normal polynomials are used.
* KF_SIDES (default: 2)
This variable can either be set to 1 or 2. When set to 2 the left and right
edges are examined individually. When set to 1 all edges are examined as one
group.
* KF_FACTOR(default: 4)
This factor defines the threshold factor. All parameters deviating
KF_FACTOR*stddev are to be corrected
BASIC PARAMETERS
--badpix_thresh The threshold level to mark pixels as bad on the dark subtracted frames
[%] --surrounding_pixels The amount of bad pixels to surround a specific pixel, to let it
be marked bad as well.
--cmethod Following methods of frame combination are available:
* ´ksigma´ (Default)
An iterative sigma clipping. For each position all pixels in the spectrum
are examined. If they deviate significantly, they will be rejected according
to the conditions:
val > mean + stdev * cpos_rej
and
val < mean - stdev * cneg_rej
where --cpos_rej, --cneg_rej and --citer are the corresponding configuration
parameters. In the first iteration median and percentile level are used.
* ´median´
At each pixel position the median is calculated.
* ´average´
At each pixel position the average is calculated.
* ´sum´
At each pixel position the sum is calculated.
* ´min_max´
The specified number of minimum and maximum pixel values will be rejected.
--cmax and --cmin apply to this method.
ADVANCED PARAMETERS
--cpos_rej --cneg_rej --citer see --cmethod=´ksigma´
--cmax --cmin see --cmethod=´min_max´
--suppress_extension If set to TRUE, the arbitrary filename extensions are supressed. If
multiple products with the same category are produced, they will be numered consecutively
starting from 0.
Input files:
DO KMOS
category Type Explanation Required #Frames
-------- ----- ----------- -------- -------
FLAT_ON RAW Flatlamp-on exposures Y 1-n
(at least 3 frames recommended)
FLAT_OFF RAW Flatlamp-off exposures Y 1-n
(at least 3 frames recommended)
BADPIXEL_DARK B2D Bad pixel mask Y 1
Output files:
DO KMOS
category Type Explanation
-------- ----- -----------
MASTER_FLAT F2D Normalised flat field
(6 extensions: alternating data & noise
BADPIXEL_FLAT B2D Updated bad pixel mask (3 Extensions)
XCAL F2D Calibration frame 1 (3 Extensions)
YCAL F2D Calibration frame 2 (3 Extensions)
FLAT_EDGE F2L Frame containing parameters of fitted
slitlets of all IFUs of all detectors
OPTIONS
--badpix_thresh <long>
The threshold level to mark pixels as bad on the dark subtracted frames [%]. (long;
default: 35). The full name of this option for the EsoRex configuration file is
kmos.kmo_flat.badpix_thresh [default = 35].
--surrounding_pixels <long>
The amount of bad pixels to surround a specific pixel, to let it be marked bad as
well. (long; default: 5). The full name of this option for the EsoRex configuration
file is kmos.kmo_flat.surrounding_pixels [default = 5].
--suppress_extension <bool>
Suppress arbitrary filename extension.(TRUE (apply) or FALSE (don´t apply) (bool;
default: False). The full name of this option for the EsoRex configuration file is
kmos.kmo_flat.suppress_extension [default = False].
--cmethod <str>
Either apply "average", "median", "sum", "min_max." or "ksigma". (str; default:
´ksigma´). The full name of this option for the EsoRex configuration file is
kmos.kmo_flat.cmethod [default = ksigma].
--cpos_rej <float>
The positive rejection threshold for kappa-sigma-clipping (sigma). (float;
default: 3.0). The full name of this option for the EsoRex configuration file is
kmos.kmo_flat.cpos_rej [default = 3.0].
--cneg_rej <float>
The negative rejection threshold for kappa-sigma-clipping (sigma). (float;
default: 3.0). The full name of this option for the EsoRex configuration file is
kmos.kmo_flat.cneg_rej [default = 3.0].
--citer <long>
The number of iterations for kappa-sigma-clipping. (long; default: 3). The full
name of this option for the EsoRex configuration file is kmos.kmo_flat.citer
[default = 3].
--cmax <long>
The number of maximum pixel values to clip with min/max-clipping. (long; default:
1). The full name of this option for the EsoRex configuration file is
kmos.kmo_flat.cmax [default = 1].
--cmin <long>
The number of minimum pixel values to clip with min/max-clipping. (long; default:
1). The full name of this option for the EsoRex configuration file is
kmos.kmo_flat.cmin [default = 1].
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 kmos pipeline can be downloaded as a PDF file using the
following URL:
ftp://ftp.eso.org/pub/dfs/pipelines/kmos/kmos-pipeline-manual-2.9.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 kmos pipeline are kmo_dev_setup(7), kmo_copy(7),
kmo_fits_check(7), kmo_sci_red(7), kmo_illumination(7), kmo_fits_stack(7),
kmo_noise_map(7), kmo_rotate(7), kmo_extract_spec(7), kmo_multi_reconstruct(7),
kmo_stats(7), kmo_shift(7), kmo_wave_cal(7), kmo_dark(7), kmo_arithmetic(7),
kmo_std_star(7), kmo_fits_strip(7), kmo_combine(7), kmo_illumination_flat(7),
kmo_make_image(7), kmo_sky_tweak(7), kmo_fit_profile(7), kmo_sky_mask(7),
kmo_reconstruct(7)
VERSION
kmo_flat 1.2.8
AUTHOR
Alex Agudo Berbel <kmos-spark@mpe.mpg.de>
BUG REPORTS
Please report any problems to kmos-spark@mpe.mpg.de. Alternatively, you may send a report
to the ESO User Support Department <usd-help@eso.org>.
LICENSE
This file is part of the KMOS Instrument Pipeline Copyright (C) 2002,2003 European
Southern Observatory
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