CCDSETUP

Sets the CCDPACK global parameters

Description:

CCDSETUP sets the values of a sequence of global parameters to be used within CCDPACK. The values of these parameters, when set, will override those of any others, except values entered on the command line. This routine should be used before starting a CCDPACK reduction sequence. The parameters are primarily concerned with values to do with the CCD device characteristics, items such as:

The routine also initialises the CCDPACK logging system.

All parameters may be supplied as ! (the parameter-system null value) this indicates that the current value is to be left unchanged if one exists (this will be shown as the default and can also be accepted by pressing return) or that a value is not to be assigned for this global parameter. If a value is not assigned it will be defaulted or prompted as appropriate when other CCDPACK applications are run.

If you are using CCDPACK Sets, then some of the parameters describing device characteristics may differ according to which member of each Set is being described. By setting the BYSET parameter to true, and supplying a value for the INDEX parameter, you can indicate that the global values you supply apply to the members of each Set with that Set Index. In this case it will be necessary to run CCDSETUP once for each Set Index to be used (for instance, once for each chip in a mosaic camera), giving a different INDEX value each time. This applies to the global parameters ADC, BOUNDS, DEFERRED, DIRECTION, EXTENT, MASK, RNOISE and SATURATION.

The removal of global parameters is performed by the CCDCLEAR application.

Usage:

ccdsetup byset=? index=? logto=? logfile=? adc=? bounds=? rnoise=? mask=? direction=? deferred=? extent=? preserve=? genvar=? ndfnames=? useset=?

Parameters:

ADC = _DOUBLE (Read and Write)
The Analogue-to-Digital units Conversion factor (ADC). CCD readout values are usually given in Analogue-to-Digital Units (ADUs). The ADC factor is the value which converts ADUs back to the number of electrons which were present in each pixel in the CCD after the integration had finished. This value is required to allow proper estimates of the inherent noise associated with each readout value. CCDPACK makes these estimates and stores them in the variance component of the final images. Not supplying a value for this parameter may be a valid response if variances are not to be generated by DEBIAS. [!]
BOUNDS( 2 or 4 ) = _INTEGER (Read and Write)
The bounds of the bias strips of the CCD. These should be in pixel indices (see notes) and be given in pairs up to a limit of 2. The sense of the bounds is along the readout direction. For example, 2,16,400,416 means that the bias strips are located between pixels 2 to 16 and 400 to 416 inclusive along the readout direction. The bias strips are used to either offset the bias frame or as an estimate of the bias which is to be interpolated across the frame in some way (see DEBIAS). Not supplying values for this parameter may be a valid response if the bias frame is to be directly subtracted from the data without offsetting. [!]
BYSET = _LOGICAL (Read)
This parameter does not give the value of a global parameter to be set up, but affects the behaviour of CCDSETUP. If true, a value for the INDEX parameter will be solicited, and all the global values supplied will apply to the processing of images with that Set Index. In this way, you can provide different values of certain global parameters for different members of each Set (e.g. images read from different chips). [FALSE]
DEFERRED = _DOUBLE (Read and Write)
The deferred charge value. Often known as the "fat" or "skinny" zero (just for confusion). This is actually the charge which is not transferred from a CCD pixel when the device is read out. Usually this is zero or negligible and is only included for completeness and for processing very old data. [!]
DIRECTION = LITERAL (Read and Write)
The readout direction of the CCD. This may take the values X or Y. A value of X indicates that the readout direction is along the first (horizontal) direction, an Y indicates that the readout direction is along the direction perpendicular to the X axis. If this value is not supplied then it will be defaulted to X by DEBIAS. [!]
EXTENT( 4 ) = _INTEGER (Read and Write)
The extent of the useful CCD area in pixel indices (see notes). The extent is defined as a range in X values and a range in Y values (XMIN,XMAX,YMIN,YMAX). These define a section of an image (SUN/33). Any parts of the CCD outside of this area will not be present in the final output. This is useful for excluding bias strips, badly vignetted parts etc. [!]
GENVAR = _LOGICAL (Read and Write)
The value of this parameter controls whether or not variance estimates will be generated within CCDPACK. A value of TRUE indicates that the routines MAKEBIAS and DEBIAS should generate variances. A value of FALSE inhibits variance generation. Normally variances should be generated, even though disk and process-time savings can be made by their omission. [TRUE]
INDEX = _INTEGER (Read)
This parameter does not give the value of a global parameter to be set up, but affects the behaviour of CCDSETUP. It indicates which Set Index value (i.e. which member of each Set) the supplied values will apply to. Only used if BYSET is true.
LOGFILE = FILENAME (Read and Write)
Name of the CCDPACK logfile. If a null (!) value is given for this parameter then no logfile will be written, regardless of the value of the LOGTO parameter. [CCDPACK.LOG]
LOGTO = LITERAL (Read and Write)
Every CCDPACK application has the ability to log its output for future reference as well as for display on the terminal. This parameter controls this process, and may be set to any unique abbreviation of the following:

  • TERMINAL – Send output to the terminal only

  • LOGFILE – Send output to the logfile only (see the LOGFILE parameter)

  • BOTH – Send output to both the terminal and the logfile

  • NEITHER – Produce no output at all [BOTH]

MASK = LITERAL (Read and Write)
This parameter allows you to supply information about the presence of defective parts of your data (such as bad lines, columns, hot spots etc.). You can supply this information in two basic forms.

  • By giving the name of an image that has the areas which are to be masked set BAD or to a suitable quality value (see DEBIAS). This can be achieved by displaying a typical image using KAPPA, getting logs of the positions of an outline enclosing the BAD area and using the KAPPA application SEGMENT, by using the ZAPLIN facility or by using the ARDGEN application together with ARDMASK ( but see the next option instead).

  • By giving the name of an ordinary text file that contains an ARD (ASCII Region Definition) description. ARD is a textual language for describing regions of a data array. The language is based on a set of keywords that identify simple shapes (such as Column, Row, Line, Box and Circle). ARD files can be generated by the KAPPA application ARDGEN, or can be created by hand. A description of ARD is given in the section "ASCII region definition files" in the DEBIAS help.

If no mask file is available simply return an !

[!]

NDFNAMES = _LOGICAL (Read and Write)
The value of this parameter controls whether or not position list processing applications are expected to find the names of lists via association with images or not.

When position lists (which are just text files of positions with either an index, an X and a Y value, or or just X and Y values) are used the option exists to associate them with a particular image. This is achieved by entering the name of the position list file into an image’s CCDPACK extension under the item "CURRENT_LIST". Associating position lists with images has the advantage of allowing wildcards to be used for the input names and makes sure that positions are always used in the correct context (this is particularly useful when determining inter-image transformations). [TRUE]

PRESERVE = _LOGICAL (Read and Write)
The value of this parameter controls whether or not processed image data arrays retain their input data types. If it is set TRUE then CCDPACK applications will return and process any data in the input type. If it is set FALSE then the applications will output an image whose type is determined by which data type was considered necessary to allow processing of the input data. This will usually mean an output type of _REAL (all types not _INTEGER or _DOUBLE) or _DOUBLE (when input types are _INTEGER or _DOUBLE). This option should be used when a unacceptable loss of accuracy may occur, or when the data range can no longer be represented in the range of the present data type. The latter effect may occur when expanding input ADU values into electrons in DEBIAS, if the ADC factor is large and the input data has a type of _WORD. [TRUE]
RESTORE = _LOGICAL (Read)
Whether or not you want to restore the values of the program parameters from a "restoration" file. If TRUE then you’ll need to specify the name of the file using the RESTOREFILE parameter. A description of the contents of restoration files is given in the notes section. [FALSE]
RESTOREFILE = FILENAME (Read)
This parameter is only used if the RESTORE parameters is TRUE. It allows you to give the name of the restoration file to be used when restoring the program parameters. Restoration files are described in the notes section. [CCDPACK_SETUP.DAT]
RNOISE = _DOUBLE (Read and Write)
The nominal readout noise (in ADUs) for the current CCD. Estimates of the readout noise are made by the routines MAKEFLAT and DEBIAS. These can be used to estimate the validity of this value. Not supplying a value for this parameter may be a valid response if variances are not to be generated by MAKEBIAS and/or DEBIAS. [!]
SATURATE = _LOGICAL (Read)
This parameter controls whether the data are to be processed to detect saturated values or not. The actual saturation value is given using the SATURATION parameter. [FALSE]
SATURATION = _DOUBLE (Read)
The data saturation value. Only used if SATURATE is TRUE. [1.0D6]
SETSAT = _LOGICAL (Read)
This parameter controls how saturated data will be flagged for identification by later programs. If it is set TRUE then saturated values will be replaced by the value of the parameter SATURATION (which is also the value used to detect saturated data). If it is FALSE then saturated values will be set to BAD (also known as invalid). [FALSE]
SAVE = _LOGICAL (Read)
Whether or not to save the values of the program parameters to a "restoration" file. If TRUE then you’ll need to specify the name of the file using the SAVEFILE parameter. A description of the contents of restoration files is given in the notes section. [FALSE]
SAVEFILE = FILENAME (Read)
This parameter is only used if the SAVE parameters is TRUE. It allows you to give the name of the restoration file to be used when restoring the program parameters. Restoration files are described in the notes section. [CCDPACK_SETUP.DAT]
USESET = _LOGICAL (Read)
This parameter determines whether CCDPACK Set header information will be used when it is available. Most of the CCDPACK reduction and registration programs will look for Set header information in the .MORE.CCDPACK extension of the NDFs they are processing, and if it exists it will be used to modify the way the processing is done: broadly speaking, reduction programs will group corresponding members of different Sets together before processing, and registration programs will make use of a CCD_SET frame for alignment between members of the same Set.

This header information will only be present if it has been added (to the image itself or to one earlier in the reduction chain from which it was produced) by running the MAKESET program. If it is not present, the programs will behave as if USESET was false anyway, so it is normally quite safe for USESET to be TRUE. However, in some cases (especially if intermediate files are stored in foreign, i.e. non-NDF data formats) it may be more efficient to set this parameter false. You should also set it false if you wanted CCDPACK programs to ignore existing Set information for some reason.

If BYSET is true, this parameter will default to true also. [FALSE]

Examples:

ccdsetup
This will prompt you to enter all the global variables. You can accept defaults or enter the null value for any which you do not need to set.
ccdsetup byset index=1
In this case you will be prompted to enter values which apply to that member of each CCDPACK Set of images which has a Set Index of 1.
ccdsetup byset index=2 adc=1.5 mask=badpix2 accept
This will fix the ADC value to 1.5 and the mask image to the file badpix2 only for those Set members with a Set Index of 2. No other values will be prompted for. If this command is issued directly after the last example, then all the other global parameters will take the same values as were entered for index=1.

See also

“Package configuration”, “Global parameters with Sets”, CCDSHOW, CCDCLEAR.

Notes:

Behaviour of parameters

All parameters values are obtained by prompting. The suggested values (defaults) are either the current global values, if they exist, or the application current values (from the last time that the application was run). Global values corresponding to the INDEX parameter will be used as defaults if they exist. If the application has not been run then the "intrinsic" defaults are shown. The intrinsic defaults may be obtained at any time (in the absence of global values) by using the RESET keyword on the command line.