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GENERAL

When a TRACK, CALIB file is successfully processed, the object is checked against a list of MIDI calibrators. This list is used by the ESO web-based Calibrators Selector CalVin which is available on line. This list is updated for each Period.

If the estimated diameter of the calibrator is available from the database, a theoritical visibility and its associated error are calculated by the pipeline. The instantaneous transfer function is calculated using the theoritical and the measured visibilities.

TRANSFER FUNCTION and VISIBILITY

The data from 2006 have been re-processed with the midi pipeline v 2.0.4 and the CalVin database compiled for P81 and including 448 calibrators.

Each 6 months the calibrator database is updated.

The instrumental Transfer Function trending plots are available from the MIDI HC page. The Transfer Function plots are grouped by instrument mode (HIGHSENS or SCIPHOT) , per telescopes (UT or AT) and dispersive element (GRISM or PRISM). The TF is given in 4 different bins (9microns, 10.46microns, 11.79 microns 12.8microns).The 8.64micron bin is also available in the ASCII file but there is no trending. For the ATs, there are different pages for baselines less than 70m and for baselines more than 70m. From there the user can navigate through the history files to display previous data.

  • Transfer Function for the last 365 days (all modes/telescopes/baselines/dispersion): current HC plots
  • For the data from 2006, several links are available:

  • The "ASCII files" link directs to a directory containing 2 different types of files:
    -- TF files per baseline or telescope type and dispersive element (for example TFselectCalibbin_G0_E0_PRISM_2007 or TFselectCalibbin_AT_PRISM_2007).
    -- TF files for individual calibrator per baseline, per dispersive element (for example TFselectCalibbin_hd100407_U2_U3_PRISM_2008).
  • The "Visibility plots directory" contains different subfolders (day by day or FULL set) where the user can find the QC plots available for the calibrators (Dispersed Visibility and Photometric Flux).
    The naming convention is the following:
    -- the CalVin calibrators plots are named calibname_calibdiam_calibflux_productname.ps
    -- the data non-CalVin calibrators are also shown here and are named targetname_productname.ps


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