QC documentation system: QC procedure iflat.prg for GIRAFFE

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NAME iflat.prg (MIDAS)
VERSION 1.0 -- adapetd from UVES (May 2003)
1.1 -- adapted to giccdlin products (2008-04-03)
1.2 -- modified :DIT --> :EXPTIME for giraf_2.7 (2009-04-09)
1.3 -- finished for qcDocu (2010-03-06)
SYNTAX MIDAS
CALL processQC -a
INSTRUMENT GIRAFFE
RAWTYPE IFLAT (set of image flats plus BIAS frames); this is DETECTOR MONITORING for GIRAFFE
PURPOSE takes a sequence of CCD linearity and gain pairs (created by DETCHECK template) and analyzes gain, contamination, linearity, fp noise
PROCINPUT set of LAMP,FLAT,DETCHECK files, pairs of similar exposure times, sequence between exposure level 0 and saturation level (the BIAS,DETCHECK data are not analyzed!)
products analyzed: linearity table (DET_LIN_INFO), gain table (GAIN_INFO)
the detmon generic recipe has been implemented as giccdlin
QC1TABLE trending | table(s) in QC1 database:
giraffe_ccd
TRENDPLOT trending | HealthCheck plot(s) associated to this procedure:
trend_report_DETLIN_HC.html | trend_report_DETNOISE_HC.html | trend_report_DETCONTA_HC.html | trend_report_DETRELS_HC.html
QC1PAGE trending | associated documentation:
iflat_qc1.html
QC1PLOTS
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iflat1.gif
box1: middle row in first raw file (usually with 1 sec exptime);
same file, middle column; closeups in X and Y; these plots help detecting unusual pattern and slopes
box2: photon and fixed-pattern noise; both noise sources calculated by the recipe as pixel-to-pixel noise, and plotted with a linear fit (fp) and a square-root fit (ph); all input raw files analyzed here
box3: gain results, plotted versus exptime; the true gain is the value extrapolated for exptime -> 0
box4: contamination; this is just a visualization of the four quadrants analyzed, plus the central box which serves as reference for the normalized contamination values; these values are plotted in trend_report_DETCONTA_HC.html and listed at the bootm of the QC report (conta1...conta4)
box5: linearity: the results from the linearity table plotted versus exptime
top panel: name of main product gain table
bottom panel: no. of input raw files, mean signal, fractional fp noise, contamination values
scoring: conta4, conad, qc_lin_eff, fraction_sig_fp are scored

iflat2.gif
screenshot of first input raw file, mainly to check for contamination
QC1PARAM QC1 parameters written into QC1 table:
QC1db names: exptime | sigma_ph | sigma_fp | mean_signal | median_master | median_dit | conta1...4 | conad | fraction_sig_fp (normalized sigma_fp, useful for plotting) | qc_lin_eff (linearity coefficient)
ALGORITHM computation of all QC1 params within the recipe (which is based on the detmon recipe)
CERTIF Reasons for rejection: none (this is monitoring)
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