SC/10.1

Starlink Project
Starlink Cookbook 10.1

J. A. Stevens, R. J. Ivison, T. Jenness
Joint Astronomy Centre, Hilo, Hawaii

1 August 1997

Copyright © 1997 Science and Technology Facilities Council


The SCUBA photometry cookbook

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Contents

1 Introduction
2 Running up the software
3 The SURF commands
 3.1 reduce_switch
 3.2 change_flat
 3.3 flatfield
 3.4 extinction
 3.5 remsky
 3.6 scuphot
 3.7 scucat
4 Displaying and despiking the data
5 Sample reductions
 5.1 Example reduction – long method
 5.2 Example reduction - scuquick
6 Two and three bolometer chopping
7 Is it correct to coadd the data sets? The K-S test
 7.1 An example
8 A note on calibration
A Getting ASCII output
References

References

[1]   Gear W. K., Holland W. S., Lightfoot J. F., 1997 SCUBA Observing Manual

[2]   Duncan W. D., Robson E. I., Ade P. A. R., Griffin M. J., Sandell G., 1990, MNRAS, 243, 126

[3]   Jenness T., Lightfoot J. F., 1997, SURF – SCUBA User Reduction Facility, Starlink User Note 216

[4]   Currie M. J., 1997, KAPPA — Kernel Application Package, Starlink User Note 95

[5]   Currie M. J., Privett G. J., Chipperfield A. J., 1995 CONVERT – A format-conversion package, Starlink User Note 55

[6]   Wall L., Christiansen T., Schwartz R. L., 1996, Programming Perl, 2nd edn., O’Reilly & Associates, Inc.

[7]   Hughes D. H., 1993, JCMT–UKIRT Newsletter, 4, 32

[8]   Warren-Smith R. F., 1995, NDF – Routines for Accessing the Extensible N-Dimensional Data Format, Starlink User Note 33

[9]   Privett G. J., Jenness T., Matthews H. E., 1997, FLUXES – JCMT Position and Flux Density Calibration, Starlink User Note 213

[10]   Sandell G., 1994, MNRAS, 271, 75