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20.6 STIS Paper Products

A routine product of the calibration pipeline is the post-calibration paper products that summarize the data obtained. Guest Observers (GO) will receive these automatically a few weeks after their data are taken. Archival observers can recreate these paper products by retrieving all of the science and jitter data for a particular observation and using the STSDAS pp_dads task (at the IRAF prompt type: pp_dads *.fits).

STIS paper products are designed to summarize a set of exposures, for a single visit. A given page in the STIS paper product falls into one of two categories: a visit-level page or an exposure-level page. Below we list the individual pages contained in the STIS paper products; Figure 20.4 through Figure 20.7 provide samples of several of the paper products pages. Users are encouraged to read STIS ISR 97-11, which provides much more detail about the STIS paper products.

Visit-level Pages

Cover Page: A cover page containing the proposal ID, the visit number, the PI's name, and the proposal title.
Explanatory Notes (Figure 20.4): A set of notes explaining the paper products and the information they contain.
Target List (Figure 20.5): A table listing the targets in the set of observations being summarized.
Observation List: A table recapping the proposal information for each exposure for the set of observations being summarized, including three processing and data quality flags.
Optional Parameters: A table listing the proposal-level optional parameters for the set of observations being summarized.
Statistics: A table of simple statistics for the set of observations being summarized to allow for a quick comparison among observations. Exposure-level Pages
Exposure Plots: A graphical representation of the data contained in each exposure. Plots are specific to a particular instrument configuration and observing mode. In some cases, more than one plot is produced. The types of exposure plots are: ACQ image plot (Figure 20.6), ACQ/PEAK image plot, image plot (Figure 20.7), Rectified two-dimensional spectral image plot, one-dimensional extracted spectrum plot, time-series plot, and local rate check image plot.
Data Quality Summary: A comprehensive summary of the spacecraft performance, pipeline processing status, and calibration data quality for each exposure.
Calibration Reference File Summary: A summary of the calibration processing switches and reference files used to process each exposure.

Figure 20.4: Explanatory Notes

Figure 20.5: Target List

Figure 20.6: ACQ Plot

Figure 20.7: Image Plot

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