AMBER_SCICAL(7)

💖 AMBER_SCICAL(7) 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to the amber recipes section 7 manual page, and specifically the one and only amber_SciCal — the AMBER Science and Calibration Recipe. grab a strawberry 🍓, sit down, this is gonna be so good.

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✨ NAME ✨

amber_SciCal — the AMBER Science and Calibration Recipe. that's it, that's the name, she's iconic like that 👑

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🌈 SYNOPSIS 🌈

esorex amber_SciCal [OPTIONS] FILE.sof

literally just run it with your .sof file and whatever options you want, and she goes. no cap.

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so what does she actually do? this recipe calculates Visibilities from a Pixel-To-Visibility-Matrix and Raw Files, in both 2-Telescope Mode and 3-Telescope Mode. yes, that's the HL-version 💅

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🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

here's the full lineup, bestie. every single one. i would never skip a flag, that's not the vibe 🙈

• --binning <int> — the number of Frames to be averaged per Visibility. it's an int, and it defaults to 1. the full name of this option for the EsoRex configuration file is amber.amber_SciCal.int_binning [default = 1].
• --selectPlusTrf <bool> — select good visibilities and try to calculate the transfer function. it's a bool, and it defaults to True. the full name of this option for the EsoRex configuration file is amber.amber_SciCal.selectPlusTrf [default = True].
• --activate_BEAUTIFY_PISTON <bool> — TBD (a bool, default: True). the full name of this option for the EsoRex configuration file is amber.amber_SciCal.activate_BEAUTIFY_PISTON [default = True].
• --activate_MIN_PHOTOMETRY <bool> — TBD (a bool, default: True). the full name of this option for the EsoRex configuration file is amber.amber_SciCal.activate_MIN_PHOTOMETRY [default = True].
• --activate_DROP <bool> — TBD (a bool, default: False). the full name of this option for the EsoRex configuration file is amber.amber_SciCal.activate_DROP [default = False].
• --value_BEAUTIFY_PISTON <float> — TBD (a float, default: 1.0). the full name of this option for the EsoRex configuration file is amber.amber_SciCal.value_BEAUTIFY_PISTON [default = 1.0].
• --value_MIN_PHOTOMETRY <float> — TBD (a float, default: 0.0). the full name of this option for the EsoRex configuration file is amber.amber_SciCal.value_MIN_PHOTOMETRY [default = 0.0].
• --value_DROP <float> — TBD (a float, default: 0.0). the full name of this option for the EsoRex configuration file is amber.amber_SciCal.value_DROP [default = 0.0].

not me telling you that you can absolutely create a configuration file containing all these options, with suitable default values and everything 💅 just go check the details from the 'esorex --help' command, she'll walk you through it.

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💜 SEE ALSO 💜

the full documentation for the amber pipeline can be downloaded as a PDF file using this URL, and yes you have to copy it exactly:

ftp://ftp.eso.org/pub/dfs/pipelines/amber/amber-pipeline-manual-4.4.3.pdf

an overview over the existing ESO pipelines lives right here on the web page https://www.eso.org/sci/software/pipelines/.

basic documentation about the EsoRex program is chilling at the esorex (1) man page.

and bestie, you can even call the pipelines from python using the python-cpl package — see https://packages.python.org/python-cpl/index.html for further information. she's versatile like that 🧚

the other recipes of the amber pipeline, aka the rest of the girlies, are amber_BeamPos(7), amber_ascii_export(7), amber_calibrate(7), amber_detector(7), amber_oimerge(7), amber_p2vm(7), amber_raw_to_fitsimage(7), amber_selector(7), amber_spectral_calibration(7), amber_trf(7) 🌸

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⭐ VERSION ⭐

amber_SciCal 4.4.3 — periodt.

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

Tom Licha <https://support.eso.org> — we love and respect him, no cap 🫶

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💀 BUG REPORTS 💀

please report any problems to https://support.eso.org. alternatively, you may send a report to the ESO User Support Department <usd-help@eso.org>. they're literally there for you, don't suffer in silence 😭

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🔥 LICENSE 🔥

GP

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and that's the whole page bestie!! this was amber_SciCal version 4.4.3, served fresh from the amber recipes collection, AMBER_SCICAL(7), section 7 ✨ go forth and calculate those visibilities, you absolute main character 💖🎀🦋