scucat

Concatenates the individual photometric observations to produce a final coadded data set. Note that the user specified output file is appended with the bolometer names that were used in the observation (see the section on multiple bolometer chopping for examples (§)). It is recommended that this command be executed even if the data set consists of one observation - otherwise the nomenclature becomes unwieldy when plotting the data. Specifically, the plotting routine will require an extension of the form .bolometer_peak to be added to the output of scuphot. For example, if the scuphot output file red25_phot.sdf is an observation with the central pixel of the long-wave array then it will be identified by red25_phot.h7_peak if it is not processed by scucat.

Data that have already been concatenated with scucat can be added to scuphot output. This feature is useful if previously reduced data from one night need to be coadded with newly reduced data from another. Note that you will be prompted for a bolometer name after entering the file name of the previously concatenated dataset.