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IFS imaging flats consist of two raw frames. One with a low exposure time and one with a high exposure time. The pipeline recipe decomposes the master imaging flat field in four components:

  • a spatially high frequency fixed pattern noise product tagged DFF for differential flat field
  • a spatially low frequency fixed pattern noise product (a smoothed flat) tagged "large scale"
  • a preamplifier map product showing the extracted mean responses per amplified channel (vertical stripes)
  • a bad pixel map.

For the YJ prism the flats come in four setups: one broad band lamp and three narrow band laser lamps,
for the YJH prism the flats come in five setups: one broad band lamp and four narrow band laser lamps.

The next steps of the calibration cascade require the DFF products of the brand band lamp and the laser lamps and the pre-amplifier map product from the broad band lamp.

IFS_DFLAT_RAW IFS high exposure time broad band lamp raw frame for the YJH prism.
IFS_DFLAT_DFF IFS_DFLAT_DFF_ZOOM Left: IFS DFF imaging flat product showing the spatially high frequency fixed pattern noise. Right: zoom.
IFS_DFLAT_LS IFS imaging flat large scale feature (smoothed) product.
IFS_DFLAT_PA IFS imaging pre-amplifier map product.

 

top counts

QC parameter counts come per raw frame (2), per lamp (5) and per prism (2).

QC1 parameters

parameter QC1 database: table, name procedure
counts sphere_ifs_dflat, qc_flux_avg_0, qc_flaux_avg_1 median counts in the second (high exposure time) raw frame of the IFS imaging lamp sequence
number of bad pixel sphere_ifs_dflat, qc_num_badpix number of bad pixel

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The IFS lamp counts are trended

 


 
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