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This guide will be updated shortly, the SN1987a should be used until then, but noting the following.
The task dogemini
should be used in place of the task
docirpass
. This task works with files named according to
the Gemini convention, and converts them back to the cirpass
convention for the cirpass pipeline. dogemini
also has
parameters to allow the default reduction to be changed and to reset
the fibre position file used.
The first stage in reducing data from CIRPASS on Gemini, should be
to make the appropriate fibre position file. This file is used to
extract individual fibre spectra from the image, and its name is
written to the image headers at an early stage of the processing (the
header entry in the raw data will originally specifiy the file used at
the telescope, this file will need to be recreated and the correct
path to it set). Run dogemini on the appropriate calibration fibre
observation with update set to no. This will produce a file called
calfib_xxxx_ima.fits
, which can be displayed using the
mefdisplay
task or with display
calfib_xxxx_ima[sci,1] 1
. The fibre position file can be
created from the calfib_xxxx_ima.fits using the fibcal
task. Further discussion on this task can be found in the SN1987a
cookbook. The name of the fibre position file created should then be
set as a dogemini
parameter for all subsequent
reductions, ensuring that the correct file is used from then
on. Alternatively the EXTRFILE header entry should be manually updated
for any subsequent _ima files produced.
The task read_header
will print the header keywords
that drive the pipeline data reduction, and has an option to load
these headers into dogemini. This provides an easy way to manipulate
the data reduction. Run read_header
on the Gemini file,
with update set to yes. Then epar dogemini
and edit as
required. Be sure to set the extrfile parameter to be the file
output from fibcal above as the original will have been reloaded,
also make sure that update is also set to yes for
dogemini
so that the new entries are written to the data
when the task is run.