QC documentation system: QC procedure vimos_dark.py for VIMOS

This documentation is intended both for QC scientists and SciOps astronomers (who may want to ignore the technical information displayed in grey).   HOME   CRIRES FORS1 FORS2 KMOS NACO   GIRAFFE UVES XSHOOTER   ISAAC SPHERE VIMOS VISIR   HAWKI MUSE SINFONI   AMBER MIDI PIONIER   OMEGACAM VIRCAM [best viewing with style sheets and javascript enabled] vimos_bias.py vimos_dark.py vimos_detlin.py vimos_mask2ccd.py vimos_imgskyflt.py vimos_imgscrflt.py vimos_astimg.py vimos_stdimg.py vimos_nightzp.py vimos_moscal.py vimos_stdmos.py vimos_ifucal.py vimos_stdifu.py vimos_sciimg.py vimos_scimos.py vimos_sciifu.py   bottom  plots   |   contact NAME vimos_dark.py VERSION 1.0 -- edited from vimos_bias.py (December 2009) 1.0.1 -- supporting numpy V1.3 and matplotlib V0.99 (2010-02-08) 1.0.2 -- skip call of scoreQC (2011-05-31) 1.0.3 -- create cover sheet (2011-11-10) 1.0.4 -- changes needed for muc (2013-02-07) 1.0.5 -- changes for qc_mstplt v1.4 (2014-01-15) 1.0.6 -- changes for qc_mstdisp v1.3 (2014-01-16) SYNTAX PYTHON CALL processQC from $DFS_PRODUCT/DARK/$DATE /home/vimos/python/vimos_dark.py -i -a $AB INSTRUMENT VIMOS RAWTYPE DARK PURPOSE QC check on raw and master dark frames PROCINPUT raw dark frames and MASTER_DARK product QC1TABLE trending | table(s) in QC1 database: vimos_dark TRENDPLOT trending | HealthCheck plot(s) associated to this procedure: ../FULL/trend_report_DARKFULL_LO_HC.html | ../FULL/trend_report_DARKFULL_HI_HC.html QC1PAGE trending | associated documentation: dark_qc1.html QC1PLOTS top dark0.png upper left panel: cuts through master and reference dark in X direction upper middle panel: cuts through master and reference dark in Y direction upper right panel: histrogram of master, Gauss fit to master central left panel: cuts through master and reference in X direction, central area central middle panel: cuts through master and reference in Y direction, central area central right panel: row and column averages of master lower left panel: comparison to reference (current master - reference), cut in X direction lower middle panel: comparison to reference (current master - reference), cut in Y direction lower right panel: comparison to reference, histogram dark1.png current master dark - reference master, for all four quadrants (only created together with plot for quadrant 1) dark2.png current master dark frames from all four quadrants (only created together with plot for quadrant 1) dark3.png central area of first raw dark, for all four quadrants (only created together with plot for quadrant 1) QC1PARAM QC1 parameters written in QC1 database: QC1 DB names: dark_avg | sigma_dark_avg | median_master | sigma_master ALGORITHM Description of algorithms: dark_avg: mean value of the 1600x1800 central pixels of MASTER_DARK, converted to e/px/hr sigma_dark_avg: standard deviation of the 1600x1800 central pixels of MASTER_DARK, converted to e/px/hr median_master: median of the 1600x1800 central pixels of MASTER_DARK (ADU/sec) sigma_master: standard deviation of the 1600x1800 central pixels of MASTER_DARK in ADU/sec CERTIF products are only used for instrumental health checks and would only be rejected if a failure occured during measurement so that the calibration would not represent the real status of the detector COMMENTS darks should be measured every second month trending plots (in FULL branch, not in HEALTH): trend_report_DARKFULL_LO_HC.html | trend_report_DARKFULL_HI_HC.html MIDAS script has been replaced by Python script (2009-12-01) top [2016-03-11T12:31:06]         created by qcDocu v1.1.2, a tqs tool