SINFONI:
Association Rules

1. Introduction

Data organization including classification, grouping and association (OCA) of frames (raw and pipeline processed products) occurs at several places within the VLT Data Flow. There are data types like raw frames and product frames, header and rules, like classification rules, association rules and keys, like INS.OPTI1.NAME or OBS.PROG.ID. For several purposes, like the generation of data packages for the PIs or the data reduction of science frames and calibrations in case there is a pipeline support, science data must be associated with calibration frames following rules. A rule can be : search for the closest in time stack of raw FLAT frames that have INS.SETUP.ID=S1_J and INS.OPT1.NAME=0.025. Another rule could be : search for all telluric standard star of the same night with AIRMASS 1.2+-0.2. In this document we describe the association rules for SINFONI

2. Basic and Static Calibrations

The SINFONI data reduction scheme requires a) an arc reference table b) a reference bad pixel map, c) the position of the first column and d) a setup table as static calibrations.

Raw frames generated by the dark, and linearity template can be reduced by the pipeline, no other calibration products are required. Raw dark frames are grouped accoring to the discrete integration time (DET.DIT), linearity products are grouped by the pre-optics (camera = INS.OPTI1.NAME)..

3. Dependent Calibrations

The distortion recipe requires apart from the raw frames generated by the dedicated template the static arc reference table.

The flat recipe requires apart from the raw flat frames the linearity bad pixel map, with match key INS.SETUP.ID.

The wave recipe requires apart from the raw wave frames the following calibration products: a master flat matching in INS.SETUP.ID and INS.OPTI1.NAME, the static arc reference table, a slit pos table coming from the distortion recipe matching in INS.SETUP.ID and a distortion table matching in INS.OPTI1.NAME coming from the distortion recipe, and two static calibrations.

4. Science products

Science raw frame stacks as well as raw frame stacks of standard stars and psf templates are grouped by INS.SETUP.ID and INS.OPTI1.NAME. They require the same set of master calibrations. These are

a static f0 (first column) calibration,

a master bad pixel map matching in INS.SETUP.ID and INS.OPTI1.NAME

a master flat lamp matching in INS.SETUP.ID and INS.OPTI1.NAME

a distortion table, matching in INS.SETUP.ID only

a slitlet distances table, matching in INS.SETUP.ID only

a wave map matching in INS.SETUP.ID and in INS.OPTI1.NAME

a slit_pos matching in INS.SETUP.ID and INS.OPTI1.NAME

Although the pipeline does not use standard stars (PSF stars and Telluric stars), they have to be associated to

calibrate science products beyond the of piepline processing. The match rule for PSF stars is OBS.ID and the match rule for telluric standard stars is : take all tellurics standard stars products within the same night matching in INS.SETUP.ID and INS.OPTI1.NAME.