tune_map.html

Fine-Tuning the Spectral Map

editpar adjust-map
./adjust-map.par

type q to end

SEARCH_HEIGHT           10       half height of search range
SEARCH_WIDTH            10       half-width of search range
SLIT_WIDTH               5       slit width
ORD_DISP                 3       order of dispersion error fit
ORD_SAG                  1       order of y-distortion error fit
ORD_TILT                 1       order of tilt error fit
FIT_TILT                 y       fit slit tilt?
MINLINES                 5       minimum # of lines for tweak
LINELIST        HeNeAr_short.dat       line list file
EDGE                     2       slit edge to exclude
SIGLIMIT          8.000000       line rejection threshold in dispersion
ITERATIONS               5       number of iterations
OUTLIER-WT               y       underweight outlying point?
NCLUMP                   6       number of points in clumps for underweighting
HISTOGRAM                y       use histogram to reject lines outside 
				 search region?

The adjust-map program outputs three files:

The diagnostic plots in ift0012.ps are very useful for checking the spread of the errors and the quality of the fits. You can use these plots to see whether you need to use a different order for fitting the errors (see Figure 5). The blue dots represent the errors that were factored in the fits, whereas the red dots indicate which errors were excluded, based on the value of SIGLIMIT.

Figure 5: Sample page of plots in the ift0012.ps file output by adjust-map.

You can also check the quality of the map by generating a file with the positions of the lamp features, this time using spectral-map. For example, we can run the following command to use the map file we just produced:

spectral-map -m ift0012 -l HeNeAr.dat -b 1 -e

Then, we could overplot the coordinates in the resulting ift0012.xy file onto the lamp mosaic in ds9 using the display8 and tvmark routines in IRAF. Your spectral map at this point should be quite good. Figure 6 shows how well the positions in ift0012.xy line up with the actual features.

Figure 6: Same section of lamp mosaic displayed in ds9 as in Figure 2, but with newly mapped positions marked with green points.