SYNOPSIS

esorex hawki_step_compute_bkg [OPTIONS] FILE.sof

DESCRIPTION

hawki_step_compute_bkg -- hawki background computation utility.

This recipe will create the associated background images for a given set of object images. If there are sky images, these will be used to compute the background, otherwise, the background is computed using a running mean on the object images. An optional mask can be supplied for the running mean.

The files listed in the Set Of Frames (sof-file) must be tagged: obj_basic_cal-file.fits BASIC_CALIBRATED or sky_basic_cal-file.fits SKY_BASIC_CALIBRATED and optionally for object masking: object_mask-file.fits OBJ_MASK offsets.fits OFFSETS_REFINED distortion_x.fits DISTORTION_X distortion_y.fits DISTORTION_Y

OPTIONS

--nmin_comb <long>

Minimum number of jitter frames to use the running median (long; default: 10). The full name of this option for the EsoRex configuration file is hawki.hawki_step_compute_bkg.nmin_comb [default = 10].

--nhalf_window <long>

Number of images at both sides of the current ima to use for bkg in running median (long; default: 7). The full name of this option for the EsoRex configuration file is hawki.hawki_step_compute_bkg.nhalf_window [default = 7].

--rejlow <long>

The number of frames with low level to reject (long; default: 2). The full name of this option for the EsoRex configuration file is hawki.hawki_step_compute_bkg.rejlow [default = 2].

--rejhigh <long>

The number of frames with high level to reject (long; default: 2). The full name of this option for the EsoRex configuration file is hawki.hawki_step_compute_bkg.rejhigh [default = 2].

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.

RELATED TO hawki_step_compute_bkg…

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

  • ftp://ftp.eso.org/pub/dfs/pipelines/hawki/hawki-pipeline-manual-1.8.14.pdf

An overview over the existing ESO pipelines can be found on the web page http://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 http://packages.python.org/python-cpl/index.html for further information.

The other recipes of the hawki pipeline are hawki_cal_zpoint(7), hawki_step_stats(7), hawki_step_apply_dist(7), hawki_cal_flat(7), hawki_step_detect_obj(7), hawki_util_stdstars(7), hawki_step_basic_calib(7), hawki_step_photom_2mass(7), hawki_cal_dark(7), hawki_cal_distortion(7), hawki_util_gendist(7), hawki_sci_jitter(7), hawki_tec_filtchk(7), hawki_step_subtract_bkg(7), hawki_step_refine_offsets(7), hawki_step_stitch(7), hawki_step_combine(7)

VERSION

hawki_step_compute_bkg 1.8.14

AUTHOR

Cesar Enrique Garcia Dabo <[email protected]>

BUG REPORTS

Please report any problems to [email protected]. Alternatively, you may send a report to the ESO User Support Department <[email protected]>.

LICENSE

This file is part of the HAWKI Instrument Pipeline Copyright (C) 2002,2011 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.

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