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ctio 4m ccd for echelle spectroscopy

Guest wrote on Feb 21, 2007

Dear IRAF Help Desk,

I am trying to reduce CTIO-4m/echelle data, but can't
find any IRAF task to do so in ctio package.
The chip has two amplifiers, therefore two trim sections
and two bias sections. I can't use ccdproc for this
dataset. Is there any cookbook or guideline in IRAF
to reduce this particular ccd images?

I am guessing that there must be something, because ctio-4m
echelle should be a common instrument, but so far I haven't
found any way to reduce it other than writing my own routine!

Thank you for your help!

thanks,
Serena Kim
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spoints wrote on Feb 21, 2007

Serena,

The data can be processed by first loading the ``ared'' package in IRAF
and then loading the ``quad'' package. The data can then be reduced
(i.e., overscan corrected, trimmed, etc) using the task ``quadproc''.
Quadproc essentially works like ccdproc, but is setup to handle data
that has multi-amp readout.

After the data are bias-subtracted and trimmed, you can use the standard
IRAF tasks.

Cheers,
Sean

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Mike Fitzpatrick wrote on Feb 21, 2007

Additionally, the QUADRED package (under IMRED in the core system) has taken over for ARED. They're very similar functionally, but as far as I know ARED hasn't been updated in quite a while.

-Mike

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