MUSE_SCIPOST(7)

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version 2.8.7 · 2 versions
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✨ NAME ✨

muse_scipost — Prepare reduced and combined science products. 💖

Also hi bestie, this is MUSE_SCIPOST(7) from muse recipes — part 1 of 2, and it’s giving iconic pipeline energy 🫶

🌈 SYNOPSIS 🌈

esorex muse_scipost [OPTIONS] FILE.sof

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so first things first: the recipe sorts input pixel tables into lists of files per exposure, and it merges pixel tables from all IFUs of each exposure. Then it corrects each exposure for differential atmospheric refraction — unless --lambdaref is far outside the MUSE wavelength range, or NFM is used, because NFM has a built-in corrector. no cap 💅

Then the flux calibration is carried out if a response curve was given in the input. That flux calibration includes a correction of telluric absorption if a telluric absorption correction file was given. If observations were done with AO and a RAMAN_LINES file was given, a procedure is run to clean the Raman scattering emission lines from the data. ✨

Next, the slice autocalibration is computed and the flux correction factors are applied to the pixel table — that happens if --autocalib="deepfield". If user-provided autocalibration is requested with --autocalib="user", then the autocalibration is not computed on the input exposure; instead the autocalibration factors are read from the AUTOCAL_FACTORS table and applied directly to the data. 🎀

Then the sky subtraction is carried out — unless --skymethod="none". It can go two ways: either directly subtracting an input sky continuum and an input sky emission lines (for --skymethod="subtract-model"), or with --skymethod="model" creating a sky spectrum from the darkest fraction (--skymodel_fraction, after ignoring the lowest --skymodel_ignore as artifacts) of the field of view, then fitting and subtracting sky emission lines using an initial estimate of the input sky lines; then the continuum (residuals after subtracting the sky lines from the sky spectrum) is subtracted as well. If --save contains "skymodel", all sky-related products are saved for each exposure. 🦋

Afterwards the data is corrected for the radial velocity of the observer (--rvcorr), before the input (or a default) astrometric solution is applied. Now each individual exposure is fully reduced; the pixel tables at this stage can be saved by setting "individual" in --save. If multiple exposures were given, they are then combined. If --save contains "combined", this final merged pixel table is saved. 🌸

Finally (if --save contains "cube"), the data is resampled into a datacube, using all parameters given to the recipe. The extent and orientation of the cube is normally computed from the data itself, but this can be overridden by passing a file with the output world coordinate system (OUTPUT_WCS), for example a MUSE cube. This can also be used to sample the wavelength axis logarithmically — in that file set "CTYPE3=´AWAV-LOG´". As a last step, the computed cube is integrated over all filter functions given (--filter) that are also present in the input filter list table. 👑

💅 OPTIONS 💅

  • --save <str> — Select output product(s) to save. Can contain one or more of "cube", "autocal", "skymodel", "individual", "positioned", "combined", and "stacked". If several options are given, they have to be comma-separated. Here’s the breakdown: "cube" gives output cube and associated images — if this is not given, no final resampling is done at all. "autocal" gives up to two additional output products related to the slice autocalibration. "raman" gives up to four additional output products about the Raman light distribution for AO observations. "skymodel" gives up to four additional output products about the effectively used sky that was subtracted with the "model" method. "individual" gives fully reduced pixel table for each individual exposure. "positioned" gives fully reduced and positioned pixel table for each individual exposure; the difference to "individual" is that here, the output pixel tables have coordinates in RA and DEC, and the optional offsets were applied; this is only useful if both the relative exposure weighting and the final resampling are to be done externally. "combined" gives fully reduced and combined pixel table for the full set of exposures; the difference to "positioned" is that all pixel tables are combined into one, with an added weight column; this is useful if only the final resampling step is to be done separately. "stacked" gives an additional output file in form of a 2D column-stacked image, i.e. x direction is pseudo-spatial, y direction is wavelength. (str; default: cube,skymodel). The full name of this option for the EsoRex configuration file is muse.muse_scipost.save [default = cube,skymodel].
  • --resample <str> — The resampling technique to use for the final output cube. (str; default: drizzle). The full name of this option for the EsoRex configuration file is muse.muse_scipost.resample [default = drizzle].
  • --dx <float> — Horizontal step size for resampling (in arcsec or pixel). The following defaults are taken when this value is set to 0.0: 0.2´´ for WFM, 0.025´´ for NFM, 1.0 if data is in pixel units. (float; default: 0.0). The full name of this option for the EsoRex configuration file is muse.muse_scipost.dx [default = 0.0].
  • --dy <float> — Vertical step size for resampling (in arcsec or pixel). The following defaults are taken when this value is set to 0.0: 0.2´´ for WFM, 0.025´´ for NFM, 1.0 if data is in pixel units. (float; default: 0.0). The full name of this option for the EsoRex configuration file is muse.muse_scipost.dy [default = 0.0].
  • --dlambda <float> — Wavelength step size (in Angstrom). Natural instrument sampling is used if this is 0.0. (float; default: 0.0). The full name of this option for the EsoRex configuration file is muse.muse_scipost.dlambda [default = 0.0].
  • --crtype <str> — Type of statistics used for detection of cosmic rays during final resampling. "iraf" uses the variance information, "mean" uses standard (mean/stdev) statistics, "median" uses median and the median median of the absolute median deviation. (str; default: median). The full name of this option for the EsoRex configuration file is muse.muse_scipost.crtype [default = median].
  • --crsigma <float> — Sigma rejection factor to use for cosmic ray rejection during final resampling. A zero or negative value switches cosmic ray rejection off. (float; default: 15.0). The full name of this option for the EsoRex configuration file is muse.muse_scipost.crsigma [default = 15.0].
  • --rc <float> — Critical radius for the "renka" resampling method. (float; default: 1.25). The full name of this option for the EsoRex configuration file is muse.muse_scipost.rc [default = 1.25].
  • --pixfrac <str> — Pixel down-scaling factor for the "drizzle" resampling method. Up to three, comma-separated, floating-point values can be given. If only one value is given, it applies to all dimensions; two values are interpreted as spatial and spectral direction, respectively; while three are taken as horizontal, vertical, and spectral. (str; default: 0.8,0.8). The full name of this option for the EsoRex configuration file is muse.muse_scipost.pixfrac [default = 0.8,0.8].
  • --ld <int> — Number of adjacent pixels to take into account during resampling in all three directions (loop distance); this affects all resampling methods except "nearest". (int; default: 1). The full name of this option for the EsoRex configuration file is muse.muse_scipost.ld [default = 1].
  • --format <str> — Type of output file format. "Cube" is a standard FITS cube with NAXIS=3 and multiple extensions (for data and variance). The extended "x" formats include the reconstructed image(s) in FITS image extensions within the same file. "sdpCube" does some extra calculations to create FITS keywords for the ESO Science Data Products. (str; default: Cube). The full name of this option for the EsoRex configuration file is muse.muse_scipost.format [default = Cube].
  • --weight <str> — Type of weighting scheme to use when combining multiple exposures. "exptime" just uses the exposure time to weight the exposures, "fwhm" uses the best available seeing information from the headers as well, "none" preserves an existing weight column in the input pixel tables without changes. (str; default: exptime). The full name of this option for the EsoRex configuration file is muse.muse_scipost.weight [default = exptime].
  • --filter <str> — The filter name(s) to be used for the output field-of-view image. Each name has to correspond to an EXTNAME in an extension of the FILTER_LIST file. If an unsupported filter name is given, creation of the respective image is omitted. If multiple filter names are given, they have to be comma separated. (str; default: white). The full name of this option for the EsoRex configuration file is muse.muse_scipost.filter [default = white].
  • --autocalib <str> — The type of autocalibration to use. "none" switches it off, "deepfield" uses the revised MPDAF method that can be used for the reduction of mostly empty "Deep Fields", "user" searches for a user-provided table with autocalibration factors. (str; default: none). The full name of this option for the EsoRex configuration file is muse.muse_scipost.autocalib [default = none].
  • --raman_width <float> — Wavelength range around Raman lines [Angstrom]. (float; default: 20.0). The full name of this option for the EsoRex configuration file is muse.muse_scipost.raman_width [default = 20.0].
  • --skymethod <str> — okay so this is literally the method used to subtract the sky background (spectrum). Option model should work in all kinds of science fields: it uses a global sky spectrum model with a local LSF. model uses fluxes indicated in the SKY_LINES file as starting estimates, but re-fits them on the global sky spectrum created from the science exposure. If SKY_CONTINUUM is given, it is directly subtracted, otherwise it is created from the sky region of the science exposure. Option subtract- model uses the input SKY_LINES and SKY_CONTINUUM, subtracting them directly without re-fitting the fluxes, but still makes use of the local LSF, hence LSF_PROFILE is required. The inputs LSF_PROFILE and SKY_LINES are necessary for these two model-based methods; SKY_CONTINUUM is required for subtract-model and optional for model; SKY_MASK is optional for model. Finally, option simple creates a sky spectrum from the science data, and directly subtracts it, without taking the LSF into account (LSF_PROFILE and input SKY files are ignored). It works on data that was not flux calibrated. (str; default: ´model´). The full name of this option for the EsoRex configuration file is muse.muse_scipost.skymethod [default = model].
  • --lambdamin <float> — cut off the data below this wavelength after loading the pixel table(s). ✨ (float; default: 4000.0). EsoRex config full name: muse.muse_scipost.lambdamin [default = 4000.0].
  • --lambdamax <float> — cut off the data above this wavelength after loading the pixel table(s). ✨ (float; default: 10000.0). EsoRex config full name: muse.muse_scipost.lambdamax [default = 10000.0].
  • --lambdaref <float> — reference wavelength used for correction of differential atmospheric refraction. The R-band (peak wavelength ~7000 Angstrom) that is usually used for guiding, is close to the central wavelength of MUSE, so a value of 7000.0 Angstrom should be used if nothing else is known. A value less than zero switches DAR correction off. (float; default: 7000.0). EsoRex config full name: muse.muse_scipost.lambdaref [default = 7000.0].
  • --darcheck <str> — carry out a check of the theoretical DAR correction using source centroiding. If correct it will also apply an empirical correction. (str; default: ´none´). EsoRex config full name: muse.muse_scipost.darcheck [default = none].
  • --skymodel_fraction <float> — fraction of the image (without the ignored part) to be considered as sky. If an input sky mask is provided, the fraction is applied to the regions within the mask. If the whole sky mask should be used, set this parameter to 1. (float; default: 0.1). EsoRex config full name: muse.muse_scipost.skymodel_fraction [default = 0.1].
  • --skymodel_ignore <float> — fraction of the image to be ignored. If an input sky mask is provided, the fraction is applied to the regions within the mask. If the whole sky mask should be used, set this parameter to 0. (float; default: 0.05). EsoRex config full name: muse.muse_scipost.skymodel_ignore [default = 0.05].
  • --skymodel_sampling <float> — spectral sampling of the sky spectrum [Angstrom]. (float; default: 0.3125). EsoRex config full name: muse.muse_scipost.skymodel_sampling [default = 0.3125].
  • --skymodel_csampling <float> — spectral sampling of the continuum spectrum [Angstrom]. (float; default: 0.3125). EsoRex config full name: muse.muse_scipost.skymodel_csampling [default = 0.3125].
  • --sky_crsigma <str> — sigma level clipping for cube-based and spectrum-based CR rejection when creating the sky spectrum. This has to be a string of two comma- separated floating-point numbers. The first value gives the sigma- level rejection for cube-based CR rejection (using median), the second value the sigma-level for spectrum-based CR cleaning. Both can be switched off, by passing zero or a negative value. (str; default: ´15.,15.´). EsoRex config full name: muse.muse_scipost.sky_crsigma [default = 15.,15.].
  • --rvcorr <str> — correct the radial velocity of the telescope with reference to either the barycenter of the Solar System (bary), the center of the Sun (helio), or to the center of the Earth (geo). (str; default: ´bary´). EsoRex config full name: muse.muse_scipost.rvcorr [default = bary].
  • --astrometry <bool> — if false, skip any astrometric calibration, even if one was passed in the input set of files. This causes creation of an output cube with a linear WCS and may result in errors. If you want to use a sensible default, leave this true but do not pass an ASTROMETRY_WCS. (bool; default: True). EsoRex config full name: muse.muse_scipost.astrometry [default = True].
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.

✨ SEE ALSO ✨

💖 VERSION 💖

muse_scipost 2.8.7

👑 AUTHOR 👑

Peter Weilbacher <https://support.eso.org>

😭 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>.

📜 LICENSE 📜

okay so the legal bit, bestie — read it and weep (or don't, it's GPL):

This file is part of the MUSE Instrument Pipeline Copyright (C) 2005, 2019 European Southern Observatory This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA

that's the whole vibe, bestie — muse_scipost 2.8.7, MUSE_SCIPOST(7). periodt. 💅✨

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