Table of Contents

Quality Control

• UVES quality control: general; QC level 0; QC level 1; trending
• QC1 parameters and trending: QC1 web interface (download plots/data); QC process; instrument parameters trended
• available plots: trending plots; help for ASCII output
  
  
• web pages about QC1 of specific products/parameters:
  • bias (current plot | longterm trends)
  • resolving power (current plot)
  • dispersion rms (current plot)
  • flat-field structure (current plot): parameters measured; fluctuations; typical values; noise properties
  • FF lamp stability (current plot | longterm trend)
  • study of flat properties:
    • QC1 process (blue | red1 | red2)
    • impact of wavelength
    • slit width
    • time dependence of structures
    • fringing
      
  • grating shifts (current plot | CD drift before | after 2000-11): modes; parameters measured; temperature drift
  • efficiency curve and trending (current plot)
    • DQE
    • nighttime standards (current plot)
    • efficiency curve
    • response curves
    • tutorial on flux calibration
  • dark current: parameters measured; open shutter darks
  • CD alignment (current plot)

pipeline

• general: operations; modes and settings; functionalities; file format
  • standard settings
    
    
• calibration: types of raw calibrations; products; calibration cascade; general tables; problems and issues
  • FITS headers (bias | formatcheck | orderdef | wave | flat | std)
  • calibration recipes (bias | formatcheck | orderdef | wave | flat | std)
  • calibration products: naming scheme
  • calibration scheme
  • list of flux standards
    
    
• SCIENCE reduction: raw data; reduction steps; assumptions made; calibration products used; quality checks; precision; problems and issues
  • FITS header (science)
  • science reduction recipes
  • science products: naming scheme
  • product list
    • description of order_trace table
    • description of cosmic ray table
  • extraction (optimum, average, and 2D)
  • reduction scheme
    
    
• solar spectrum: acquisition ; reduction; extraction; remarks;
  • plots (e.g. 3000-4000 gif | ps)
  • table of disturbed wavelength ranges
  • spectrum (4 MB FITS)
    
    
• sky emission spectrum: acquisition ; reduction; extraction; remarks;
  • tables and plots
  • A&A

Service Mode

• Service Mode README file: directory structure; content; list files; plots (QC1 reports); data files; problems, issues, hints
  • lists: archive | QC0
  • QC1 reports (SCIENCE reduction; see below); previews: spectrum | position | FWHM
    
    
• QC1 reports (SCIENCE reduction, optimum extraction and slicer observations): extensive description
  • Optimum extraction:
    • spectrum
    • position
    • cross-dispersion width
    • description of order_trace table
  • Slicer Observations:
    • spectrum
• Tutorial on QC1 reports
  
  

Data Management

• general items about UVES data managements: file ownership; naming schems; file association;FAQs
• ServiceMode run status (updated regularly):