Friday, June 19, 2009

The Surf 31

* Abstract
* Introduction
* Starting up SURF
o Getting help

* What data do I have?
* Supported Observing Modes
* Message filtering
* SCUBA sections
* Environment variables
o SURF environment variables
+ DATADIR
+ SCUBA_PREFIX
+ SCUBA_SUFFIX
o Other useful environment variables

* Basic outline of SCUBA data reduction
* The data reduction process
o Preliminaries
o Skydips
o Noise measurements
o Common data reduction
o Despiking
+ Manual despiking
+ Automatic despiking
o Map making
+ Rebinning multiple datasets
+ Output coordinate frames
+ Exporting maps
o Photometry
+ SURF photometry and KAPPA
o Scan maps
+ Baseline removal
+ Sky removal
+ Dual beam deconvolution
# EKH method
# Emerson II method
o Polarimetry data reduction

* Citing SURF
* Future Work
* Release Notes
o Changes in Version 1.6-11
o Changes in Version 1.6-10
o Changes in Version 1.6-9
o Changes in Version 1.6-8
o Changes in Version 1.6-7
o Changes in Version 1.6
o Changes in Version 1.5
o Changes in Version 1.4
o Changes in Version 1.3
o Changes in Version 1.2
o Changes in Version 1.1
o Version 1.0-0

* Glossary
* Bibliography
* An alphabetical summary of SURF commands
* Classified SURF commands
* Complete routine descriptions
o ADD_DBM - Generate a chopped image from a single beam map
o BOLREBIN - Generate a separate regridded image for each bolometer
o CALCSKY - Calculate sky contribution from median image
o CHANGE_DATA - Set SCUBA data to any value
o CHANGE_FLAT - Change the flatfield in a SCUBA datafile
o CHANGE_NACENTRE - Shift the Nasmyth centre of the array
o CHANGE_POINTING - Change the pointing corrections to map data
o CHANGE_QUALITY - Set SCUBA data quality bad or good
o DESPIKE - Despike data by position
o DESPIKE2 - Remove spikes from SCAN/MAP observations
o DSPBOL - Interactive display and despiking
o EXTINCTION - Remove the effect of atmospheric extinction from a SCUBA observation
o EXTRACT_DATA - Write bolometer positions and values to text file
o EXTRACT_FLAT - Extract a flatfield from a SCUBA demodulated data file
o FLATFIELD - Flatfield demodulated SCUBA data
o INTREBIN - Generate a separate regridded image for each integration
o MAPSUM - Produce one-line summary of SCUBA map observations
o OBSSUM - Produce one-line summary of SCUBA observations
o PHOTSUM - Produce one-line summary of SCUBA photometry observations
o PLTBOL - Interactive bolometer display
o POINTSUM - Produce one-line summary of SCUBA pointing observations
o QDRAW - Draw a data set with plus or minus 5 sigma range
o REBIN - Rebin demodulated SCUBA data onto output map
o REDUCE_NOISE - Process demodulated noise data
o REDUCE_SWITCH - reduce the switch sequence for a SCUBA observation
o REMDBM - Remove dual beam signature from scan maps
o REMIP - Remove instrumental polarisation from SCUBA pol data
o REMSKY - Remove sky noise and constant offsets from SCUBA jiggle data
o RESTORE - remove the chopped beam response from SCAN/MAP observations
o RLINPLOT - Interactive display
o SCAN_RLB - Remove baselines from SCAN/MAP data
o SCUBA2MEM - Calculate bolometer positions as tangent plane offsets
o SCUCAT - Concatenate photometry datasets for further processing
o SCUCLIP - Simple sigma clipping for each bolometer
o SCUCLKERR - Determine the possible error in the times stored in the data header
o SCUHELP - Gives help about SCUBA software
o SCULOG - Produce summary of SCUBA observations
o SCUMAKEWT - Create weights array for dual beam deconvolution
o SCUNOISE - Display SCUBA noise data
o SCUOVER - Routine to overlay the bolometer names onto a rebinned image
o SCUPA - Show position angle of array
o SCUPHOT - Reduce SCUBA PHOTOM data
o SCUPLOT - Interactive display and despiking
o SCUQUICK - automate the basic SCUBA data reduction
o SCUSETENV - Set the startup environment variables for SURF
o SCUSHIFT - Correct for data shift error in demodulated data files
o SDIP - Reduces and displays skydip data
o SETBOLWT - Calculate or set bolometer weights
o SIGCLIP - Clip a dataset at n-sigma
o SKYDIP - calculate sky properties from SCUBA skydip data
o SKYSUM - Produce one-line summary of SCUBA skydip observations

* Reducing data at the Joint Astronomy Centre
o During Observing
o Hilo

* File naming and data structures
o Naming Conventions
o Structure of RO files
o Structure of demodulated files

* FITS keywords
o Demodulated data
o Rebinned data

* Description of despiking method used by despike
* Quality flags
* Skydips
o Calibration
o Removing bad skydip data from the fit

* Correcting `shifted' data
* Notes on scripts
* About this document ...

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