GIRAFFE Calibration Files

The GIRAFFE Pipeline release package contains only a minimal set of calibration files. These are the static calibration tables, i.e. line catalogs, grating information, master slit geometry tables, etc. In order to process GIRAFFE observations with the GIRAFFE Pipeline recipes additional calibration files (e.g. fiber localizations, extracted flat fields, dispersion solutions, etc.) are also required.

In order of preference, these calibration files can either be taken from

The last option may be time consuming and is usually not necessary. In almost all cases it is sufficient to use the files from first or the second option, either as they are, or as an initial guess to update them with the calibration recipes of the GIRAFFE Pipeline.

Standard Calibration Data Sets for the GIRAFFE Pipeline

The latest release of the standard calibration data sets is still version 2.8.7. However, these data sets can be used together with the GIRAFFE pipeline version 2.16.11.

The Standard Calibration Data Sets are the calibration files used by the automatic on-line pipeline running at the telescope, and should produce results of comparable accuracy. These calibrations can be used as an initial guess for the calibration recipes of the GIRAFFE Pipeline, in order to create up-to-date calibrations from raw calibration files.

However, if you have calibration files available, which were created by the ESO Quality Control and Data Processing Group for your observations, it is strongly recommended that you use these calibration files.

The Standard Calibration Data Sets are organized into a set of files to keep the size of the downloads limited. There is one file for each of the 5 GIRAFFE fibre systems and one for the fibre system independent calibrations. These files contain the calibrations for each supported wavelength setup of the high and the low resolution grating.

Calibration data sets for GIRAFFE CCD "Carreras"

These data sets are suitable for GIRAFFE data that has been taken with the new CCD "Carreras", i.e. data which has been observed since May 2008.

Note: Replacing the original GIRAFFE CCD with "Carreras" led to a loss of sensitivity in the blue. The bluest setups for the IFU and Argus slit systems of both gratings (low and high resolution), which were not easy to calibrate even for the old CCD, cannot be calibrated properly at the moment, and are therefore not supported!

Fibre System Size (MB) MD5 Sum Download Notes
All 11 a18f22ec4d6fe576df83375350b428da giraf-data-common-2.8.7.tar.gz Fibre system independent calibrations. To be used in conjunction with any of the other files.
Medusa 1 638 716c1b7218b8648a4e838d16f34a8676 giraf-data-medusa1-2.8.7.tar.gz
Medusa 2 638 f8132099ae152abbb4795daaa46c279a giraf-data-medusa2-2.8.7.tar.gz
IFU 1 1452 7847452374083a11fd1e3ea3a92eff68 giraf-data-ifu1-2.8.7.tar.gz
IFU 2 1508 5e1af93ee3767017ae36cc8af8e31140 giraf-data-ifu2-2.8.7.tar.gz
Argus 1532 88251e6260955d2be8f8fa6772d4f35f giraf-data-argus-2.8.7.tar.gz

Calibration data sets for GIRAFFE CCD "Bruce"

These data sets are suitable for GIRAFFE data that has been taken with the old CCD "Bruce", i.e. data which has been observed before May 2008.

Fibre System Size (MB) MD5 Sum Download Notes
All 15 1696f77a76fe51a46ac008c2c25adf11 giraf-data-common-2.5.3.tar.gz Fibre system independent calibrations. To be used in conjunction with any of the other files.
Medusa 1 131 7a712035236bea87e4421720f3c504f1 giraf-data-medusa1-2.5.3.tar.gz
Medusa 2 129 812bff6629776bd402945dd2db0efea3 giraf-data-medusa2-2.5.3.tar.gz
IFU 1 203 a2bdd497b636d97a3c753ce9c005602b giraf-data-ifu1-2.5.3.tar.gz
IFU 2 207 73ece254c167fbdec86b5b84942b3aa4 giraf-data-ifu2-2.5.3.tar.gz
Argus 311 201146ba7a2237570919aaf4f452f145 giraf-data-argus-2.5.3.tar.gz

Installation instructions for the GIRAFFE Standard Calibration Data Sets can be found here