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Line search and interactive identification

The detection of arc lines in the wavelength calibration frame .bdf is done by
SEARCH/MOS

This command will take the slitlets' limits from .tbl ( mos) and the eventual binning and stepping factor from ( 3,3). In all CCD rows of .bdf that are selected by these parameters it will look for intensities above the chosen threshold when comparing to the median intensity over a chosen window (threshold and window are defined by ( 200,5)). Any lines detected this way will be centered by ( GAUSS) and stored in .tbl ( linpos).


With
PLOT/SEARCH

you will get a plot of the x-positions of all found arc lines versus the CCD rows.

If you do not know the central wavelength and mean dispersion of the grism you used you have to identify at least two arc lines in any row of any slitlet.
IDENTIFY/MOS

The row, in which the lines shall be identified, is read from ( 0). If you do not provide any number either there or on the command line, the program will take the first CCD row that has been scanned. As frame it will use .bdf.



Rein Warmels
Mon Jan 22 15:08:15 MET 1996