QC documentation system: QC procedure qc_TELLURIC for ISAAC

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NAME qc_TELLURIC.sh
VERSION 1.0 -- 2006-07-25 fill template by handbook
1.1 -- 2006-07-26 verified and completed
1.2 -- 2007-07-13 functionality extended
1.3 -- 2008-01-09 trending plots migrated
1.4 -- 2008-04-25 writeQC
SYNTAX SHELL
CALL called by processQC as qc_TELLURIC -d $DATE -f $primfile
INSTRUMENT ISAAC
RAWTYPE TELLURIC SW_SP_FLUX
PURPOSE a) generates QC report
b) writes QC1 parameters into local list
The script reads the the OCS.SELECT-ARM SW_N_TELLURIC, SW_G_TELLURIC, LW_N_TELLURIC, LW_C_TELLURIC, LW_G_TELLURIC, SW_SP_FLUX The script is called for telluric standard stars and for monthly flux standard stars. The first part of the script is applied for both TELL and FLUX. The second part is applied to flux standards alone. The telluric standard star is taken close in time (~1h) close in air mass (+-0.05) to the science spectrum using the same setup. The flux standard star is taken without slit using the four SW-LR settings.
PROCINPUT a) $DATE in yyyy-mm-dd,
b) $primfile is the PRO.CATG=COADDED_STD product with the _0000.fits extension.
c) raw frames are implicitely read from the AB.
QC1TABLE trending | table(s) in QC1 database:
isaac_telluric | isaac_flux
TRENDPLOT trending | HealthCheck plot(s) associated to this procedure:
trend_report_SP_TELL_SZ_HC.html | trend_report_SP_FLUX_SZ_HC.html
QC1PAGE trending | associated documentation:
qc_IS_std.html | qc_IS_flux.html
QC1PLOTS
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tellu0.png
display the telluric standard star product image spectrum on RealTimeDisplay There should be one bright spectrum in the center and two negative spectra with half intensity.
tellu1.png
plot of the telluric standard star (red) together with some previous telluric standard stars with the same of similar setting.
tellu2.png
plot of the telluric standard star (black) together with some previous telluric standard stars with the same or similar setting, all normalized to the same scale.
tellu3.png
UL: median sky derived from raw frames UR: relative offset within the nodding sequence LL: raw spectrum instensity relative to the one of the first frame LR: cumuative offset within the nodding sequence
tellu4.png
RED: median collapsed image of first raw frame (sky spectrum) GREEN: median collapsed image of last raw frame (sky spectrum) BLUE: OH line atlas with fluxes, to check wavelngth calibration
tellu5.png
upper: PSF derived from median collapsed product frame upper: Gaussian fit with sigma anf Moffat fit with R (~width) and beta (~ wing) lower: PSF derived from raw frame at x=400 (red) and x=600 (green) lower: The x=400 raw frame PSF is fit by a Gaussian and a Moffat
sp_flux2.png
extracted flux standard star spectrum in counts
sp_flux3.png
normalized spectrum and a recent one
sp_flux4.png
conversion factor derived from the flux standard
sp_flux5.png
efficiency and linear fit (blue) to a clean sepctral region (red bars)
sp_flux6.png
as tellu3.png
sp_flux7.png
This plot is generated for reasons of operational symmetry. It is the same as tellu4.png. There appear no sky lines in slitless spectroscopy.
QC1PARAM QC1 parameters written into QC1 table:
FITSNAME, DBNAME , typical value, description:
wavelength solution parameters of sky/physical model wavelength solution parameters of of day-time arcs wavelength offset between both solutions
up to 2006
In case the MAG and MK-type of the telluric is found in the catalog
NONE , A linear fit of F = A + B * lambda to response function in interval
NONE , B linear fit of F = A + B * lambda to response function in interval
ALGORITHM Description of algorithms:
wavelength : is just to monitor the difference between night time and day-time spectroscopic setting (mostly the few pixdel offset). response : Only for SW LR setting a linear function is fit to the response function. The intervals are given by:
SZ: [10000:11000]
J: [11700:13300]
SH: [15000:17500]
SK: [21000:24500]
and are choosen to avoid impact of broad-band telluric features.
CERTIF Quality diminishing features (not under control, but tolerated) :
- tilted telluric features, see extra internal document
- 50Hz noise (does not impact spectrum at these count rates)
Reasons for rejection:
- saturation
- photon noise much less than that of science object
- no signal
COMMENTS From P78 on (Oct 2006) is is planned to implement an extra SW_SP_FLUX RAW_TYPE for reasons of technical throughput measurements in slitles spectroscopy
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