DRAGONS - GMOS Data Reduction Tutorial

Document ID

PIPE-USER-116_GMOSImg-DRTutorial

This is a brief tutorial on how to reduce GMOS images using DRAGONS. It is based on information found in the GEMINI GMOS WebPage and in the DRAGONS Documentation

Table of Contents

• 1. Introduction
  • 1.1. Software Requirements
  • 1.2. Downloading the tutorial datasets
• 2. Setting up the Calibration Service
  • 2.1. The Configuration File
  • 2.2. Usage from the Command Line
  • 2.3. Usage from the API
• 3. Example 1 - Star field with dithers
  • 3.1. Example 1 - Datasets descriptions
  • 3.2. Example 1 - Star field with dithers - Using the “reduce” command line
  • 3.3. Example 1 - Star field with dithers - Using the “Reduce” class
• 4. Example 2 - Separate CCDs
  • 4.1. Example 2 - Datasets descriptions
  • 4.2. Example 2 - Separate CCDs - Using the “reduce” command line
  • 4.3. Example 2 - Separate CCDs - Using the “Reduce” class
• 5. Tips and Tricks
  • 5.1. Getting Bad Pixel Masks from the archive
  • 5.2. Create Master Fringe Frame
  • 5.3. Bypass automatic calibration association
  • 5.4. Browse Recipes and Primitives
  • 5.5. Customizing input parameters
  • 5.6. Setting the output suffix
• 6. Issues and Limitations
  • 6.1. Memory Usage
  • 6.2. Double messaging issue
  • 6.3. Astropy warnings

Appendix

• Downloading from the Gemini Observatory Archive
• Fringe Correction Tables

Indices and tables

• Index
• Module Index
• Search Page