SUN/66.5

Starlink Project
Starlink User Note 66.5

Jeremy Bailey
Anglo-Australian Observatory

2 May 1997


TSP — A Time Series/Polarimetry Package

Version 2.3

Users’ Manual



Contents

1 Introduction
2 Running TSP
 2.1 Starting TSP
 2.2 TSP Commands
3 TSP Data Format
4 Relationship to FIGARO
5 Spectropolarimetry Reduction Algorithms
6 AAT Pockels Cell Spectropolarimeter Data
 6.1 Introduction
 6.2 Data reduction sequence
 6.3 Efficiency Calibration
 6.4 Wavelength Calibration
 6.5 Flux Calibration
 6.6 Plotting Data
7 AAT Wave-Plate Spectropolarimeter Data
 7.1 Introduction
 7.2 Data reduction sequence
 7.3 Efficiency Calibration
 7.4 Position Angle Calibration
 7.5 Wavelength Calibration
 7.6 Flux Calibration
 7.7 Plotting Data
8 CGS2 and CGS4 Spectropolarimetry Data
 8.1 Reducing CGS4 data
 8.2 Reading CGS2 data files
 8.3 Position angle calibration
 8.4 Efficiency calibration
 8.5 Flux Calibration
 8.6 Plotting Data
9 Time Series Data
 9.1 Input of Data
 9.2 Processing Data
 9.3 Plotting Time Series Data
10 Imaging Polarimetry Data
11 Three dimensional data
 11.1 Displaying time series images
 11.2 Extracting Light Curves from Time Series Images
 11.3 Image motion and software tip/tilt correction
12 Writing TSP programs
13 New Features in TSP version 2.3
 13.1 New Command
 13.2 Bug fixes
 13.3 Other Changes
14 New Features in TSP version 2.2
 14.1 New Commands
 14.2 Bug Fixes
15 New Features in TSP version 2.1
 15.1 UNIX version
 15.2 Imaging Polarimetry Commands
 15.3 CGS4 Spectropolarimetry
16 New Features in TSP version 2.0
 16.1 New Commands
  16.1.1 Commands for spectropolarimetry reduction
  16.1.2 IR Spectropolarimetry
  16.1.3 Time Series Data
  16.1.4 Time Series Imaging Data
  16.1.5 General
 16.2 TSPSUBS library
 16.3 Figaro File access
 16.4 Bad Pixel Handling
A TSP commands
B Detailed Command Descriptions
C TSPSUBS routines
 C.1 TSPSUBS — Routines to Create New Structures
 C.2 TSPSUBS — Routines to Find or Create Stokes Components
 C.3 TSPSUBS — Routines to Map or Unmap Data Arrays
 C.4 TSPSUBS — Routines to Inquire or Alter the Data Array Size
 C.5 TSPSUBS — Routines to Read or Write LABEL and UNITS strings
D Detailed description of TSPSUBS routines