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+ | ====== SINFONI ====== | ||
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+ | Notes by Marshall Perrin as of March 2007. | ||
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+ | SINFONI is an adaptive optics integral field spectrograph on the VLT. (Yes, US astronomers //can// get time on the VLT! It helps to have European collaborators, | ||
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+ | You'll need to download the SINFONI pipeline from ESO. This is actually pretty easy to install. It'll run in command line mode on your linux or mac box using the ' | ||
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+ | The VLT pipeline handles much of the basic data reduction, but they ship you a ridiculous amount of data on DVDs including the full calibration archive. You probably want to ignore most of this and look at the FITS files with product code " | ||
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+ | The SINFONI pipeline will have tried to automatically mosaic these together into SCDJ files, but it probably got the offsets wrong. The pipeline documentation //claims// that you can use the " | ||
+ | offsets. But the current version (1.6.0) actually COMPLETELY IGNORES that text file (contrary to the docs) and only reads the offsets from the ESO HIERARCH CUMOFFSETX and ESO HIERARCH CUMOFFSETY keywords. Furthermore, | ||
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