ORAC-DR – Programmer’s Guide

SUN/233.4

Starlink Project
Starlink User Note 233.4

Tim Jenness, Frossie Economou, Brad Cavanagh
Joint Astronomy Centre, Hilo, Hawaii

June 2004

4.1-0

Abstract

orac-dr is a general purpose automatic data reduction pipeline environment. This document describes how to modify data reduction recipes and how to add new instruments. For a general overview of orac-dr see SUN/230. For specific information on how to reduce the data for a particular instrument, please consult the appropriate orac-dr instrument guide.

1 Introduction
2 Overview
3 Recipes
3.1 Recipe Names
3.2 Recipe locations
4 Primitives
5 Writing a Primitive
5.1 Log Files
5.2 Temporary and intermediate files
5.3 Passing information between primitives
6 Calibration
6.1 Calibration overrides
7 Message output
8 Recipe Debugging
9 Adding new instruments
9.1 Frames
9.1.1 Frame headers
9.2 Groups
9.3 Calibration
9.4 Algorithm Engines
9.5 Orac-dr
9.6 Recipes
A Directory Layout
B Perl Bibliography
C Class libraries
C.1 ORAC::Bounds
C.2 ORAC::Calib
C.3 ORAC::Calib::WFCAM;
C.4 ORAC::Calib::ACSIS;
C.5 ORAC::Calib::SCUBA
C.6 ORAC::Calib::SCUBA2
C.7 ORAC::Constants
C.8 ORAC::Display
C.9 ORAC::Frame
C.10 ORAC::Frame::NDF
C.11 ORAC::Frame::UKIRT
C.12 ORAC::Frame::WFCAM
C.13 ORAC::Frame::JCMT
C.14 ORAC::Frame::ACSIS
C.15 ORAC::Frame::SCUBA
C.16 ORAC::Frame::SCUBA2
C.17 ORAC::General
C.18 ORAC::Group
C.19 ORAC::Group::NDF
C.20 ORAC::Group::UKIRT
C.21 ORAC::Group::WFCAM
C.22 ORAC::Group::ACSIS
C.23 ORAC::Group::SCUBA
C.24 ORAC::Group::SCUBA2
C.25 ORAC::Index
C.26 ORAC::LogFile
C.27 ORAC::Loop
C.28 ORAC::Msg::Control::AMS
C.29 ORAC::Msg::Task::ADAM
C.30 ORAC::Print
C.31 ORAC::TempFile
D Core libraries
D.1 ORAC::BaseFile
D.2 ORAC::BaseFITS
D.3 ORAC::BaseGSD
D.4 ORAC::BaseNDF
D.5 ORAC::Basic
D.6 ORAC::Convert
D.7 ORAC::Core
D.8 ORAC::Display::Base
D.9 ORAC::Display::GAIA
D.10 ORAC::Display::KAPVIEW
D.11 ORAC::Error
D.12 ORAC::Inst::Defn
D.13 ORAC::Msg::EngineLaunch
D.14 ORAC::Msg::MessysLaunch

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