[PIPE2D-1133] Correct fiber throughputs Created: 16/Dec/22  Updated: 08/Feb/23  Resolved: 17/Dec/22

Status: Done
Project: DRP 2-D Pipeline
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Type: Task Priority: Normal
Reporter: hassan Assignee: price
Resolution: Done Votes: 0
Labels: EngRun, calib-mgmt
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relates to PIPE2D-1132 b1 detectormap has incorrect waveleng... Done
Sprint: 2DDRP-2023 A
Reviewers: hassan

 Description   

Paul Price commented in PIPE2D-1132:

The quartz spectra in the fiberProfiles have 3x higher flux on one side of the PFI than the other, so we need to fix that or it will adversely affect sky subtraction and flux calibration. If there isn't another set with more suitable illumination, I'm hoping we can manually scale them to match the actual throughput from the sky (via a twilight exposure, maybe?).

Robert Lupton commented in same ticket:

We have to sort out the fibre throughputs. Twilight sky is one option (with field rotation!) but it's a bit tricky to get. Another option is to use the bright sky lines (e.g. 5577 in the blue, and reasonably-isolated sets of Meinel lines in the red). They should be uniform across the field of view to a percent or two, and we can beat that down as sqrt(N). It'd be good to confirm that both approaches give the same result.



 Comments   
Comment by price [ 17/Dec/22 ]

The 3x variation of fluxes within a spectrograph module appears to be due to a combination of vignetting in the corrector and scale changes with radius. It does not mean that the spectrograph has 3x less throughput at large radius, as point sources will not scale the same.
There is a ~40% difference between the fluxes for r1 and r3 (r3 is larger). It's not yet clear where this comes from.
Both these variations appear to normalise out using the quartzes.

The current fiber profiles normalisations have a bunch of holes, due to NANs from masked pixels in the combined image; I've fixed this.

Merged changes to master after a quick informal review by hassan.

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