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An alternative second step-Filippenko & Greenstein data

An alternative way of dealing with this type of data would actually be to treat it as if it were Oke & Gunn data and use `cspike' and `interp' as described in the section on the second step for Oke & Gunn data). This is probably satisfactory so long as the data does not cover a range with significant absorption features. (If it does, you can always remove the bad points with `spied' before interpolating.)

If you do this, you have to supply a bandwidth, since the table file will not have specified one. You can put one into the spiketrum generated by `gspike' (section on first step).

   ICL> setobj value=40 object=gmspike.MORE.FIGARO.TABLE.BANDWIDTH

will set the bandwidth to 40 Angstroms. The effect of this is going to be similar to smoothing the observed spectrum with a filter 40 Angstroms wide in order to get the continuum values at the points specified by the table. After that, you just go through the `cspike', (`spied'), `interp' sequence as in the section on the second step for Oke & Gunn data, finally ending up with a calibration spectrum called `calib'.



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FIGARO A general data reduction system
Starlink User Note 86
Keith Shortridge, Horst Meyerdierks,
Malcolm Currie, Martin Clayton, Jon Lockley,
Anne Charles, Clive Davenhall,
Mark Taylor, Tim Ash, Tim Wilkins, Dave Axon,
John Palmer, Anthony Holloway and
Vito Graffagnino
2004 February 17
E-mail:ussc@star.rl.ac.uk

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