AMBER_TRF(7)

💖 AMBER_TRF — the transfer function recipe, bestie edition 💖

okay so real quick, the manual name for this one is amber_trf — that's the vibe, that's the whole thing. it's part of the amber recipes, and we're about to make a transfer function like the icon you are. let's go 🦋

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

esorex amber_trf [OPTIONS] FILE.sof

that's it. that's the whole summoning spell. esorex + the recipe + your options + a .sof file and boom, we're cooking 💅

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

so this recipe literally calculates the transfer function of Amber. that's its whole job. main character behavior, honestly.

🎀 Input files:

okay so here's what you can feed it. pay attention bestie, the categories and types MATTER:

• CALIB_REDUCED — Type: Products — Explanation: Calibrator frame — Required: Y
• or CALIB_REDUCED_FILTERED — Type: Products — Explanation: Calibrator frame

then the calibrator databases (it's a J / H / K situation and yes, the "and/or" is doing a LOT of work here):

• CALIB_DATABASE_J — Type: Calib — Explanation: J-Band Calibrator database
• and/or CALIB_DATABASE_H — Type: Calib — Explanation: H-Band Calibrator database — Required: Y
• and/or CALIB_DATABASE_K — Type: Calib — Explanation: K-Band Calibrator database

ngl the J / H / K band thing is giving "pick your fighter" energy. the recipe is flexible like that 🫶

🦋 Output files:

here's what it hands back to you. data type: OI-fits table. explanation: Transfer Function. very demure, very transfer-function:

• AMBER_TRF_J — Data type: OI-fits table — Explanation: Transfer Function
• and/or AMBER_TRF_H — Data type: OI-fits table — Explanation: Transfer Function
• and/or AMBER_TRF_K — Data type: OI-fits table — Explanation: Transfer Function

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💅 OPTIONS 💅

so. about options. there's a very important thing you need to know:

Note that it is possible to create a configuration file containing these options, along with suitable default values. Please refer to the details provided by the esorex --help command.

like, yes, config files are a thing and yes, they can hold defaults for these options — but the actual list of them lives in esorex --help. go check it there, bestie, it's giving "the real ones know" 🔥

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

the full documentation for the amber pipeline can be downloaded as a PDF file using the following URL:

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

an overview over the existing ESO pipelines can be found on the web page:

https://www.eso.org/sci/software/pipelines/

basic documentation about the EsoRex program can be found at the esorex(1) man page. periodt.

you can also call the pipelines from python using the python-cpl package — see https://packages.python.org/python-cpl/index.html for further information. 🧚

and now, the amber pipeline recipe family reunion, because they ALL get a shoutout:

• amber_BeamPos(7)
• amber_SciCal(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)

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⭐ VERSION ⭐

amber_trf 4.4.3 — yeah that's the version, no cap.

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

Armin Gabasch <https://support.eso.org>

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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>.

not me begging you to actually report bugs instead of just suffering in silence 😭 they want to help!!

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📜 LICENSE 📜

GPL

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and that's a wrap on the amber_trf manual, bestie — this little page is from the amber_trf 4.4.3 era and lives in section AMBER_TRF(7). go make some transfer functions, you absolute icon 💖✨🎀