ESO
SINFONI Pipeline User Manual
Doc:
VLT-MAN-ESO-19500-3600
Issue:
Issue 1.0
Date:
Date 2005-10-19
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46 of 88
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9.2.2
Output
default recipe file name
PRO.CATG
short description
out_bp_noise.fits
BP_MAP_HP
bad pixel map, method=”Noise”
out_dark.fits
MASTER_DARK
master dark
9.2.3
Quality control
Dark frames are processed to monitor the RON, Read Out Noise per DIT, the FPN, Fixed Patter Noise per DIT,
the detector counts per DIT, the number of hot pixels per DIT.
RON
The RON is computed on the whole detector chip and given as value of the QC.RON parameter. For
quality control those values are monitored as a function of time and DIT. Two consecutive frames are subtracted
from each other and the median standard deviation of a limited number of samples is taken and normalised to
DET.NDIT=1. The RON is computed in two regions and is given by the values of QC.RON1 and QC.RON2.
Dark median counts
The median and standard deviation of the counts in the master dark frame are monitored
by DFO. Its value and standard deviation are given by the values of QC.DARKMED.AVE and
QC.DARKMED.STDEV
Fixed Pattern Noise
A histogram of the master dark is produced, and a fit is applied; the standard deviation
(sigma) of the Gaussian is the FPN. This value, logged by parameter QC.DARKFPN, is monitored for different
DITs. The FPN should scale linearly with the number of counts. For this reason the ratio FPN/counts is
monitored for different DITs.
Number of hot pixels
The number of pixels having an intensity greater than a threshold is monitored in the
parameter QC.BP-MAP.NBADPIX
9.2.4
Parameters
parameter
alias
default
sinfoni.bp_noise.thresh_sigma_factor
bp_noise-thresh_sigma_fct
10.0
sinfoni.bp_noise.low_rejection
bp_noise-lo_rej
10.0
sinfoni.bp_noise.high_rejection
bp_noise-hi_rej
10.0
sinfoni.dark.low_rejection
dark-lo_rej
0.1
sinfoni.dark.high_rejection
dark-hi_rej
0.1
sinfoni.dark.qc_ron_xmin
dark-qc_ron_xmin
1