VMIFUCOMBINE(7)

💖 VMIFUCOMBINE — the vimos recipes glow-up 💖

okay bestie, gather round, because this is the vmifucombine page from the vimos recipes manual (that's section 7 of the man pages, iykyk), and it's genuinely such a little overachiever. ✨

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✨ NAME ✨

vmifucombine — Combine partial IFU field-of-views reconstructed by vmifuscience from different quadrants. 🦋

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

esorex vmifucombine [OPTIONS] FILE.sof

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💫 DESCRIPTION 💫

So here's the vibe: this recipe composes the reconstructed images of the IFU field-of-view from different VIMOS quadrants into one single image. That's the whole main character moment. 💅

Those reconstructed images are made by the recipes vmifuscience and vmifustandard, so they're the ones doing the pre-game.

Heads up bestie: the input images must belong to different quadrants, which is why you literally cannot have more than 4 of them. That's not a suggestion, that's the rule. 🚫

The images are simply summed together — like, no fancy math, no glow-up filter, just addition. And here's why that's fine: all field-of-view images are always 80x80 pixels, and only the sector corresponding to one quadrant has intensities that differ from zero. So the other sectors are just vibing at zero and adding them costs you nothing. 🎀

For more details, please refer to the VIMOS Pipeline User´s Guide. 📖

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💅 OPTIONS 💅

okay so real talk — 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. 👑

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

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

ftp://ftp.eso.org/pub/dfs/pipelines/vimos/vimos-pipeline-manual-6.9.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.

The other recipes of the vimos pipeline are vimos_ima_bias(7), vimos_ima_dark(7), vimos_ima_det_noise(7), vimos_ima_fringe(7), vimos_ima_science(7), vimos_ima_standard(7), vimos_ima_twilight_flat(7), vmbias(7), vmdark(7), vmdet(7), vmifucalib(7), vmifucombinecube(7), vmifuscience(7), vmifustandard(7), vmmoscalib(7), vmmosscience(7), vmspphot(7) — the whole squad fr fr. 🫶

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⭐ VERSION ⭐

vmifucombine 4.1.7

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

ESO VIMOS Pipeline Team <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>.

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🧚 LICENSE 🧚

This file is part of the VIMOS Instrument Pipeline Copyright (C) 2002-2005 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 02110-1301 USA

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and that's the whole page bestie 💜 — vmifucombine, version 4.1.7, from the vimos recipes corner of the ESO universe. go forth and sum those quadrants, no cap. 🌟