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Currently the telluirc standard stars and the flux standard stars are processed like science data observed in the same mode.

top Quality of Cube Construction

All QC1 parameters refering to tracing the spectra in the cube are limited to spectral regions avoiding the overlaps between the arms (UVB: 350nm-540nm, VIS: 580nm-950nm, NIR: 1000nm-2200nm). For faint objects the traces will be very noisy.

QC1 parameters

  • avg_<ij> (QC1 database table xshooter_night_ifu column avg_<ij> with <ij> = 12,23,13 )
    gives the average difference between the traces in slice i and j in the constructed merged cube.
  • med_<ij> (QC1 database table xshooter_night_ifu column med_<ij> with <ij> = 12,23,13 )
    gives the median difference between the traces in slice i and j in the constructed merged cube.
  • rms_<ij> (QC1 database table xshooter_night_ifu column rms_<ij> with <ij> = 12,23,13 )
    gives the rms of the difference between the traces in slice i and j in the constructed merged cube.
top Saturation

QC1 parameters

  • npix_high (QC1 database table xshooter_night_ifu, column npix_high)
    gives the maximum number of highly exposed pixels (>60000 ADU for UVB/VIS) in the raw data. These pixels are not saturated but very likely significantly non-linear in their response.
  • npix_sat (QC1 database table xshooter_night_ifu, column npix_sat)
    gives the number of saturated pixels (65535 ADU for UVB/VIS, 0 for NIR) in the raw data. The correct implementation for NIR data has been done only from version 0.9.8 on, but unfotunately also unsaturated pixels may have a flux of 0 or less in NIR raw data.
  • fpix_sat (QC1 database table xshooter_night_ifu, column fpix_sat)
    gives the fraction of saturated pixels (65535 ADU for UVB/VIS, 0 for NIR) in the raw data. The correct implementation for NIR data has been done only from version 0.9.8 on, but unfotunately also unsaturated pixels may have a flux of 0 or less in NIR raw data.

 
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