Changes:

Improvements

• This release focus on improvements for users, but also improves operations.
  SPIFFIER data reduction improvements:
  • Implemented recipe eris_ifu_combine_hdrl to allow combination of 3D data cubes created by the jitter recipe.
  • Changed cube resampling to do a plane by plane cube resampling. It largely reduces the RAM usage and allows a speed-up of 10%. This generates slightly less noisy data in certain resampling modes.
  • The output grid size of resampling is calculated from the axis increments using the full CD matrix, which takes the rotation into account.
  • Found that too many pixels are flagged as bad, in particular on the dark frames. As this may affect the quality of the extracted spectrum, creating spikes that are not present in the data, we decided filter out the flagged pixels before doing the extraction. This solved the problem of the spikes present in the extracted spectrum in previous releases.
  • Fixed a bug that was preventing the generation of flux calibrated data cubes.
  • Updated static frames controlling the response computation to extend the wavelength range of the response spectrum. This allows to extend the wavelength range of the flux resampled spectrum.
  • Added the parameter derot_corr to eris_ifu_stdstar and eris_ifu_jitter recipes to correct a (small) shift along X direction depending on the rotation angle.
  • Added the parameter aj-method to eris_ifu_stdstar and eris_ifu_jitter recipes, which allows users to estimate the sky from the next in MJD-OBS object frame in case there is no sky frame taken.
  • Fixed a bug for the OH alignment when building the data cubes. Previously the shift was calculated but not applied due to the bug.
  • Added quality control parameters on the recipes eris_ifu_distortion, eris_ifu_flat, eris_ifu_wavecal, eris_ifu_persistence_monitor and fixed some minor bug in the determination of a few QC parameters.
  • Improved robustness when computing Strehl, and of the eris_ifu_stdstar recipe in general.
  • Updated Reflex OCA rules to enable processing of PSF STD stars. We now offer more parameters to the user in the interactive workflows that control reduction of standard stars and science objects.
  • Removed ’outgrid’ and some other parameter from the eris_ifu_stdstar, and eris_ifu_jitter recipes as they were useful only for the recipe maintainer for debugging purposes and not for desktop users.
  • Added checks on required input frames. However now the pipeline stops in case a required input is not provided. Some input maybe optional, and is recommended to read the user manual, Section 12.
  • Updated user manual
  NIX data reduction improvements:
  • Improved WCS accuracy.
  • Fixed a bug saving products of data obtained with DET.FRAM.FORMAT = ’cube’
  • Fixed a problem reducing darks of windowed data.
  • The recipe eris_nix_cal_det is now faster by a factor 2.8. Further speed-up can be obtained disabling the computation of the pipeline products checksums, that means running the recipe as: esorex --nodatamd5=true --no-checksum=true my_recipe myfiles.sof. For operations quick-look, we also added a parameter that, changes reduction by collapsing the data cube before applying the detector signature corrections, in this way drastically reducing the computation time.
  • Added more quality control parameters for calibrations recipes.
  • Added check on required input frame tags.
  • Updated user manual