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instrument file

NAME

instrument data file (IDF), default name suffix .ins.

DESCRIPTION

The instrument data file (IDF) is the resultfile of instrument. It stores a
description of some Wide Field Camera properties and contains references to
other calibration datafiles. Amongst these is the name of the mask file and
the appropriate detector file.

                             IDF FITS structure

  ext.name type  dim                       description
 PRIMARY   ---  0     keyword data only.
                      mask pattern, binned to match detector pixelsize,
 WFCbinmask-32  nx ny first plane computed with open maskelement set to 1,
                2
                      closed element to 0, second plane vice versa.

 WFCdftmask-32  nx ny discrete Fourier transform of the original mask
                2     pattern, planes differing as above.
                      first plane : for each pixel in the sky, the
                      reciprocal of the total detector area (cm2) seen

 WFCcf     -32  nx ny through open maskelements.
                2     second plane: for each pixel in the sky, the
                      reciprocal of the area (not) seen through closed
                      maskelements.



Mark Savenije
Sat Jan 18 15:04:49 MET 1997