VISIR_UTIL_JOIN(7)

💖 visir_util_join(7) — visir recipes 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the manual page for visir_util_join, straight outta the visir recipes section of the manual set. this one's a glow-up recipe — it takes your finished product and gives it ✨extensions✨. let's get into it.

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🎀 NAME 🎀

visir_util_join — extend the final product with extensions containing its error map, bad pixel map and weight or contribution map 💅

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

esorex visir_util_join [OPTIONS] FILE.sof

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so the files you list in the Set Of Frames (aka the SOF-file) have to be tagged like this, no exceptions:

VISIR-data.fits DATA

and optionally, your SOF can also carry one or more of these lil besties:

VISIR-bad-pixel-map.fits BPM
VISIR-error.fits ERROR_MAP
VISIR-contribution-map.fits CONTRIBUTION_MAP
VISIR-weight-map.fits WEIGHT_MAP

the product(s) you get out will have a FITS card HIERARCH ESO PRO CATG with the value:

JOIN

iconic. no cap. 🌈

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💅 OPTIONS 💅

ngl, there's nothing listed here to scroll through — but heads up: you can make a configuration file holding these options plus suitable default values. for the deets, go check what esorex --help tells you. periodt.

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🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

the full documentation for the visir pipeline can be downloaded as a PDF file using this URL right here:

ftp://ftp.eso.org/pub/dfs/pipelines/visir/visir-pipeline-manual-1.4.pdf

an overview over the existing ESO pipelines lives on this web page:

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

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

and yes, you can call the pipelines from python using the python-cpl package — see https://packages.python.org/python-cpl/index.html for further info.

the other recipes of the visir pipeline are, in order, giving main character energy:

• visir_img_dark(7)
• visir_img_ff(7)
• visir_img_reduce(7)
• visir_img_trans(7)
• visir_old_img_combine(7)
• visir_old_img_phot(7)
• visir_old_spc_obs(7)
• visir_old_spc_obs_ech(7)
• visir_old_spc_phot(7)
• visir_old_spc_phot_ech(7)
• visir_old_spc_wcal(7)
• visir_old_spc_wcal_ech(7)
• visir_old_util_destripe(7)
• visir_spc_reduce(7)
• visir_util_apply_calib(7)
• visir_util_clip(7)
• visir_util_convert_weight(7)
• visir_util_detect_shift(7)
• visir_util_img_std_cat(7)
• visir_util_qc(7)
• visir_util_repack(7)
• visir_util_run_swarp(7)
• visir_util_spc_std_cat(7)
• visir_util_spc_txt2fits(7)
• visir_util_undistort(7)

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⭐ VERSION ⭐

visir_util_join 4.4.2

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

Lars Lundin <https://support.eso.org> — we love them for this, fr fr.

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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>. don't be shy, they wanna hear it. 🙈

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🌸 LICENSE 🌸

this file is part of the VISIR Instrument Pipeline Copyright (C) 2004, 2005 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

lowkey the whole "WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY" thing is the most dramatic line in this entire page and it's not even close 😭

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and that's the whole page bestie!! this was visir_util_join version 4.4.2, from the VISIR_UTIL_JOIN(7) manual — same 4.4.2 on the footer side too, so it's giving very consistent, very slay. go join those maps to your product, you absolute legend 💖✨🦋