DRAGONS - Flamingos 2 Data Reduction Tutorial

Document ID

PIPE-USER-115_F2Img-DRTutorial

This is a brief tutorial on how to reduce Flamingos-2 images using DRAGONS (Data Reduction for Astronomy from Gemini Observatory North and South). It is based on information found in the GEMINI Flamingos-2 WebPage and in the DRAGONS Documentation on Read The Docs.

Table of Contents

• 1. Introduction
  • 1.1. Software Requirements
  • 1.2. Downloading the tutorial datasets
  • 1.3. About the dataset
• 2. Data Reduction with “reduce”
  • 2.1. The dataset
  • 2.2. Set up the Local Calibration Manager
  • 2.3. Check files
  • 2.4. Create file lists
  • 2.5. Create a Master Dark
  • 2.6. Create a Bad Pixel Mask
  • 2.7. Create a Master Flat Field
  • 2.8. Reduce the Science Images
• 3. Reduction using API
  • 3.1. The dataset
  • 3.2. Setting Up
  • 3.3. Create list of files
  • 3.4. Create a Master Dark
  • 3.5. Create a Bad Pixel Mask
  • 3.6. Create a Master Flat Field
  • 3.7. Reduce the Science Images
• 4. Tips and Tricks
  • 4.1. Flatfields
  • 4.2. Bypassing automatic calibration association
• 5. Issues and Limitations
  • 5.1. Memory Issues
  • 5.2. Emission from PWFS2 guide probe
  • 5.3. Double messaging issue

Appendices

• Downloading from the Gemini Observatory Archive

Indices and tables

• Index
• Module Index
• Search Page