vmifucombinecube(7)


NAME

   vmifucombinecube  -  Rearrange  into  cube  format  images of extracted
   spectraproduced by vmifucalib, vmifuscience, and vmifustandard.

SYNOPSIS

   esorex vmifucombinecube [OPTIONS] FILE.sof

DESCRIPTION

   This recipe is used to rearrange into  a  single  cube  the  images  of
   extracted  spectra  from  different  VIMOS  quadrants.  Such images are
   created by the recipes vmifucalib, vmifuscience, and vmifustandard, and
   the classification tag of the product depends on the classification tag
   of the inputs:

            Input                         Output

      IFU_ARC_SPECTRUM_EXTRACTED    IFU_ARC_SPECTRUM_CUBE
      IFU_FLAT_SPECTRUM_EXTRACTED   IFU_FLAT_SPECTRUM_CUBE
      IFU_SCIENCE_REDUCED           IFU_SCIENCE_CUBE
      IFU_SCIENCE_FLUX_REDUCED      IFU_SCIENCE_FLUX_CUBE
      IFU_STANDARD_REDUCED          IFU_STANDARD_CUBE

   The input images must belong  to  different  quadrants,  so  that  they
   cannot  be  more than 4. The allocated cubes are the smallest possible,
   depending on the number of quadrants involved and on  whether  the  IFU
   shutter  was  on or off. The smallest cubes (20x20xN) are produced when
   just one quadrant is input and the shutter was on.  The  largest  cubes
   (80x80xN) are produced when 3 or more quadrants are given in input (and
   when either quadrants 1 and 3, or 2 and 4, are input), and the  shutter
   was  off.  Pixels belonging to missing quadrants are padded with zeroes
   if necessary.

OPTIONS

   Note that it is possible to  create  a  configuration  file  containing
   these  options, along with suitable default values. Please refer to the
   details provided by the 'esorex --help' command.

SEE ALSO

   The full documentation for the vimos pipeline can be  downloaded  as  a
   PDF file using the following URL:

          ftp://ftp.eso.org/pub/dfs/pipelines/vimos/vimos-pipeline-manual-6.9.pdf

   An overview over the existing ESO pipelines can be  found  on  the  web
   page http://www.eso.org/sci/software/pipelines/.

   Basic documentation about the EsoRex program can be found at the esorex
   (1) man page.

   It is possible to call the pipelines from python using  the  python-cpl
   package.    See   http://packages.python.org/python-cpl/index.html  for
   further information.

   The other recipes of  the  vimos  pipeline  are  vmbias(7),  vmdark(7),
   vmdet(7),      vmifucalib(7),     vmifucombine(7),     vmifuscience(7),
   vmifustandard(7),  vmimcalphot(7),  vmimflatscreen(7),  vmimflatsky(7),
   vmimobsjitter(7),  vmimobsstare(7), vmimpreimaging(7), vmimstandard(7),
   vmmoscalib(7),  vmmoscombine(7),  vmmosobsjitter(7),  vmmosobsstare(7),
   vmmosscience(7),    vmmosstandard(7),    vmspcaldisp(7),   vmspflat(7),
   vmspphot(7)

VERSION

   vmifucombinecube 3.1.7

AUTHOR

   ESO VIMOS Pipeline Team and VIMOS Consortium <usd-help@eso.org>

BUG REPORTS

   Please report any problems to usd-help@eso.org. Alternatively, you  may
   send a report to the ESO User Support Department <usd-help@eso.org>.

LICENSE

   This  file is currently part of the VIMOS Instrument Pipeline Copyright
   (C) 2002-2011 European Southern Observatory

   This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
   under  the  terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the
   Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at  your
   option) any later version.

   This  program  is  distributed  in the hope that it will be useful, but
   WITHOUT  ANY  WARRANTY;  without   even   the   implied   warranty   of
   MERCHANTABILITY  or  FITNESS  FOR  A  PARTICULAR  PURPOSE.  See the GNU
   General Public License for more details.

   You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along
   with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc.,
   51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA  02110-1301  USA





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