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KI Nulling Data Products

Calibrated Nulling Output Description


Calibrated narrow-band Nulling data files are text files that are produced by the calibration application nbNullCalib, part of the V2Calib package.

The first section of the output is an extended preamble (with commentlines indicated by # symbols) containing the following pieces:


The second section of the file containes a list of calibrated output data. For each specified target/pseudonym there is a designation header, and then a sequence of space delimited data lines. The contents of these data lines is described by the following table:

field#

content

comments

1

Target Designation

Target Designation (string)

2

# NULLSPEC Records

# of null spec records averaged into this target scan (integer)

3

MJD

Modified Julian Date (day) (float)

4

UTC Date/Time

UTC Date/time in dd/mm/yyyy/hh:mm:ss format (string)

5

UTC

UTC Time (decimal hours) (float)

6

Delay

Average delay (m) (float)

7

NChannels

Number of spectrometer channels (integer)

8 + 7*(i-1)

Wavelength (float)

Effective wavelength (microns) for channel i

9 + 7*(i-1)

CalNull i

Channel i calibrated null (dimensionless) (float)

10 + 7*(i-1)

ErrNull i

Channel i std error in calibrated null (dimensionless) (float)

11 + 7*(i-1)

RawNull i

Channel i raw (L-1) null (dimensionless) (float)

12 + 7*(i-1)

ErrRawNull i

Channel i std error in raw null (dimensionless) (float)

13 + 7*(i-1)

SysNull i

Channel i estimated system null (dimensionless)

14 + 7*(i-1)

ErrSysNull i

Channel i std error in system null (dimensionless) (float)

15 + 7*NChannels

# Cals

Number of calibrators used in calibrating this scan (integer)

16 + 7*NChannels

uCoord

u * lambda -- RA baseline projection (m) (float)

17 + 7*NChannels

vCoord

v * lambda -- Dec baseline projection (m) (float)

18 + 7*NChannels

HRangle

Hour angle on target for this scan (decimal hours) (float)

19 + 7*NChannels

Baseline

Baseline designation for this scan (e.g. KI_K1K2) (string)


where the channel index i runs from 1 to NChannels.