UVES_CAL_MFLAT_COMBINE(7)

💖 UVES_CAL_MFLAT_COMBINE 💖

okay bestie, so this is uves_cal_mflat_combine from the uves recipes — it's the one that combines your master flat field and your master dflat frames. very "two snacks, one bowl" energy fr fr 🥣✨

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✨ NAME ✨

uves_cal_mflat_combine — combines the master flat field and the master dflat frames 🫶

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

esorex uves_cal_mflat_combine [OPTIONS] FILE.sof

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so this recipe combined a MASTER_FLAT_xxxx with a MASTER_DFLAT_xxxx 💅

the input are, like, literally:

• a master flat (MASTER_FLAT_xxxx)
• a master dflat (MASTER_DFLAT_xxxx)
• an order table (ORDER_TABLE_xxxx) — and this one gets provided for each chip, where xxxx = BLUE, REDL, REDU 👑

and the output? a MASTER_FLAT_xxxx ✨ periodt.

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🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

• --debug <bool> — whether or not to save intermediate results to your local directory. it's a bool, default is False. the full name of this option for the EsoRex configuration file is uves.debug [default = False]. (so yes, turning this on means your folder is gonna get messy — iconic of it tbh 🙈)
• --order_threshold <int> — the order where master flats are joined. it's an int, default is 7. the full name of this option for the EsoRex configuration file is uves.order_threshold [default = 7]. 🧚
• --plotter <str> — any plots the recipe produces get redirected to whatever command you put here. and listen, the plotting command must contain the substring ´gnuplot´ and must be able to parse gnuplot syntax on its standard input. valid examples of such a command may include ´gnuplot -persist´ and ´cat > mygnuplot$$.gp´. want finer control of the plotting options? write an executable script, e.g. my_gnuplot.pl, that executes gnuplot after setting the desired gnuplot options (e.g. set terminal pslatex color). to turn off plotting, set this parameter to ´no´. it's a str, default: ´no´. the full name of this option for the EsoRex configuration file is uves.plotter [default = no]. 📊
• --process_chip <str> — for RED arm data, process the redl, redu, or both chip(s). it's a str, default: ´both´. the full name of this option for the EsoRex configuration file is uves.process_chip [default = both]. 👯

heads up bestie: you can lowkey create a configuration file containing these options, along with suitable default values. please refer to the details provided by the 'esorex --help' command. 💜

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

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

ftp://ftp.eso.org/pub/dfs/pipelines/uves/uves-pipeline-manual-6.1.8.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. ⭐

it is possible to call the pipelines from python using the python-cpl package. see https://packages.python.org/python-cpl/index.html for further information. 🐍

and the other recipes of the uves pipeline are (collect them all, iykyk): flames_cal_mkmaster(7), flames_cal_orderpos(7), flames_cal_predict(7), flames_cal_prep_sff_ofpos(7), flames_cal_wavecal(7), flames_obs_redchain(7), flames_obs_scired(7), flames_utl_unpack(7), uves_cal_cd_align(7), uves_cal_mbias(7), uves_cal_mdark(7), uves_cal_mflat(7), uves_cal_mkmaster(7), uves_cal_orderpos(7), uves_cal_predict(7), uves_cal_response(7), uves_cal_tflat(7), uves_cal_wavecal(7), uves_obs_redchain(7), uves_obs_scired(7), uves_utl_ima_arith(7), uves_utl_remove_crh_single(7) 💖

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👑 VERSION 👑

uves_cal_mflat_combine 6.1.8 ✨

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🫶 AUTHOR 🫶

Andrea Modigliani <cpl@eso.org> — thank you for your service, king 💜

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😭 BUG REPORTS 😭

please report any problems to cpl@eso.org. alternatively, you may send a report to the ESO User Support Department <usd-help@eso.org>. they wanna hear from you, fr fr — no gatekeeping bugs 🙈

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💀 LICENSE 💀

this file is part of the FLAMES/UVES Pipeline Copyright (C) 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 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. (yes bestie, that's the scary part, read it 😤)

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 🌸

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and that's the whole thing! this page was served up by uves_cal_mflat_combine version 6.1.8 on UVES_CAL_MFLAT_COMBINE(7) — stay slaying, and remember: combine your flats, not your feelings 💖✨🦋