specter Data Files

Introduction

Several data files are bundled with the specter package. This document summarizes these files.

specter/data/

Sky Data Files

These files are used for building up input models and throughputs.

ZenExtinct-KPNO.fits
HDU 1 has a binary table with columns WAVELENGTH [A] and EXTINCTION [mag/airmass] for KPNO. Below 5000 A the curve is from kpnoextinct.dat; above 5000 A is from Arjun Dey. The data were merged by Nick Mostek for bbspecsim.
sky-uves.fits
HDU 1 has a binary table with columns wavelength [Angstroms] and flux [1e-17 erg/s/cm^2/A/arcsec^2]. This is a sky spectrum from 3400-10600 A (vacuum) stitched together from the individual spectra described and available from ESO. The code that originally generated this file is in a separate product, bbspecsim/pro/sky/uves_sky.pro .

specter/test/t/

This directory contains sample data files used for unit tests.

Filename Format Type Loglam wavedim fluxdim
spec-000.fits image STAR None 1 1
spec-001.fits table STAR None 1 1
spec-002.fits image STAR False 1 1
spec-003.fits table STAR False 1 1
spec-004.fits image STAR True 1 1
spec-005.fits table STAR True 1 1
spec-006.fits image STAR None 0 1
spec-007.fits image STAR False 0 1
spec-008.fits image STAR True 0 1
spec-009.fits image STAR None 1 2
spec-010.fits image STAR* None 1 2
spec-011.fits image STAR False 1 2
spec-012.fits image STAR* False 1 2
spec-013.fits image STAR True 1 2
spec-014.fits image STAR* True 1 2
spec-015.fits image STAR None 2 2
spec-016.fits table STAR None 2 2
spec-017.fits image STAR* None 2 2
spec-018.fits table STAR* None 2 2
spec-019.fits image STAR False 2 2
spec-020.fits table STAR False 2 2
spec-021.fits image STAR* False 2 2
spec-022.fits table STAR* False 2 2
spec-023.fits image STAR True 2 2
spec-024.fits table STAR True 2 2
spec-025.fits image STAR* True 2 2
spec-026.fits table STAR* True 2 2
spec-027.fits image STAR None 0 2
spec-028.fits image STAR* None 0 2
spec-029.fits image STAR False 0 2
spec-030.fits image STAR* False 0 2
spec-031.fits image STAR True 0 2
spec-032.fits image STAR* True 0 2