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  11 May 2025
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Previous Update Items

  • New bad pixel map (Jan 2009)
  • New page for SofI Zero Point Trends (Oct 2008)
  • New IR Spectral Library page (Dec 2007)
  • SofI pipeline recipes are publicly available (Jul 2007)
  • New detector linearity page (May 2007)
  • New archive for detector non-linearity corrections (May 2007)
  • New archive for distortion corrections for spectroscopy (May 2007)
  • New archive for illumination correction 4x4 imaging grids (May 2007)
  • SOFI Users Manual v2.10 (Apr 2007)
  • Quick-look data reduciton tool page updated. (Dec 2006)
  • SofI Pipeline Description (Sept 2006)
  • SOFI Users Manual v2.00 (Apr 2006)
  • SofI FAQ (Mar 9, 2006)
  • SOFI Users Manual v1.98 (Mar 2006)
  • New/updated Neon and Xenon arc line list. (Feb 2006)
  • New quick-look data reduciton tool. (Feb 2006)
  • Created a new page with the arc line list. (Dec 2005)
  • Created a SofI publication metrics page (Dec 2005)
  • Created a SofI status related new page (Jun 2005)
  • Added a description of the Calibration Plan (Jun 2005)
  • Added a page describing the HAWAII detector (Feb 2005)
  • Modified crosstalk removal IRAF task (Jan 2005)
  • New Image Quality Large Field (Nov 2003)
  • Field distorsion Small Field (Sep 2003)- pdf file
  • Stability of the flats in imagery mode (Feb 21, 2003) - postscript file
  • Polarimetry report (Jan 2003) - postscript file
  • Astrometry and Field distorsions Large Field (Apr 26, 2002)
  • New TSF Manual (Apr 18, 2002; obsolate as from March 2006)
  • IR Background (Mar 24, 2002)
  • Image Quality of SOFI (Aug 6, 2001)
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