Reference File Updates Following the Application of New Geometric Distortion and Walk Corrections I: Overview
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| author | Indriolo, Nick Fischer, William J. Frazer, Elaine French, David Hasselquist, Sten Hernandez, Jaquline Johnson, Christian I. Kakkad, Darshan Miller, Lauren P. Rafelski, Marc Sankrit, Ravi |
| author_facet | Indriolo, Nick Fischer, William J. Frazer, Elaine French, David Hasselquist, Sten Hernandez, Jaquline Johnson, Christian I. Kakkad, Darshan Miller, Lauren P. Rafelski, Marc Sankrit, Ravi |
| contents | The calibration of Cosmic Origins Spectrograph (COS) data is performed by the data processing pipeline known as CalCOS. CalCOS utilizes several reference files that store information required for data processing (e.g., dispersion solutions), and these reference files can be updated for the purpose of improving calibrated data products. In 2024 a major effort to improve the far-ultraviolet (FUV) geometric distortion, delta-geometric, and walk corrections was completed. Those three corrections occur early in the CalCOS workflow and shift photon events into the corrected reference frame ((XCORR, YCORR) coordinate system) in which subsequent calibration steps-and their reference files-are defined. This change necessitated the re-derivation of all "downstream" reference files in use at the time. Here we summarize the effort to create new versions of 56 reference files applicable to lifetime positions 1 through 6 and intended for use with the new geometric distortion, delta geometric, and walk corrections. The primary outcome of this work is improved wavelength and flux calibrations for COS FUV spectra. |
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| spellingShingle | Reference File Updates Following the Application of New Geometric Distortion and Walk Corrections I: Overview Indriolo, Nick Fischer, William J. Frazer, Elaine French, David Hasselquist, Sten Hernandez, Jaquline Johnson, Christian I. Kakkad, Darshan Miller, Lauren P. Rafelski, Marc Sankrit, Ravi Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics The calibration of Cosmic Origins Spectrograph (COS) data is performed by the data processing pipeline known as CalCOS. CalCOS utilizes several reference files that store information required for data processing (e.g., dispersion solutions), and these reference files can be updated for the purpose of improving calibrated data products. In 2024 a major effort to improve the far-ultraviolet (FUV) geometric distortion, delta-geometric, and walk corrections was completed. Those three corrections occur early in the CalCOS workflow and shift photon events into the corrected reference frame ((XCORR, YCORR) coordinate system) in which subsequent calibration steps-and their reference files-are defined. This change necessitated the re-derivation of all "downstream" reference files in use at the time. Here we summarize the effort to create new versions of 56 reference files applicable to lifetime positions 1 through 6 and intended for use with the new geometric distortion, delta geometric, and walk corrections. The primary outcome of this work is improved wavelength and flux calibrations for COS FUV spectra. |
| title | Reference File Updates Following the Application of New Geometric Distortion and Walk Corrections I: Overview |
| topic | Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.09917 |