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1. the Grouping Menu button and the Expand Collapse button which change the virtual view in the Navigation Panel 10 VLT MAN ESO 19200 XXXXXX Overview The Find Entry field accepts typed entries and the associated find button search for the entry in the Navigation Panel a File counter on the right hand end of the toolbar a number indicates the total number of files selected at any given moment ESO Right of the number of selected files the DO and RBS icons are shown These icons are displayed in blue whenever Gasgano detects that the Data Organiser and or the Reduction Block Scheduler are currently running on the local workstation They are displayed in white otherwise Files loaded by the tool are shown in the Filesystem view of the Navigation Panel sorted by Run ID and OB ID and organised in a directory tree which is called a virtual view A selected list of keywords configurable by the user is listed The keyword names are displayed at the top of each column 2 The File Association Panel displays associations between set of raw frames pipeline reduced frames and the master calibration frames used to produce them Its top part is organised into four different registers a Raw Files a Master Calibration Files a Reduction Block a Product Files Clicking on an entry in any of these registers makes it the active selected file 3 The File Detail Panel shows the header of a f
2. ESO In addition to the standard registers an additional one the Databases register is available for database connectivity settings Clicking on any of these registers activates a configurable panel All panels have an OK and Cancel buttons on the lower part Accepting the preferences via the OK button will have to twofold effect of saving them into the gasganorc configuration file and enforcing them in the current session Though not required the preference file can be edited using any ASCII editor Refer to chapter 9 for the list of available entries 4 1 1 Configuring the Data register The Data register shown in Figure 3 contains general file system settings filenames of rules and filter files recognised text files extensions and the location of the keyword list directory the directory where all user defined keyword lists are stored The Data register is divided into three main sections 1 In the upper part the Data Directories and Files field specifies which directories or files are automatically loaded at start up Adding entries to this panel and accepting the preferences with the OK button automatically loads the corresponding data sets into memory if not loaded yet Selecting a directory file selects all files in the directory To load a directory GASGANO User s Manual Last saved 01 02 2002 17 Configuring GASGANO Do it first Q click on the Add File button A dialog box which allows navigati
3. GASGANO Installation and Startup 3 4 3 5 To start the application enter the following on the command line e gasgano amp If Gasgano starts correctly the main screen will appear If the DISPLAY setting is incorrect or Xauthority is not correctly set the application will not start and messages similar to the following will be displayed on the screen Xlib connection to xt313 0 0 refused by server Xlib Client is not authorized to connect to Server java lang InternalError Can t connect to X11 window server using xt313 0 as the value of the DISPLAY variable at sun awt motif MToolkit lt init gt MToolkit java 103 java awt Toolkit getDefaultToolkit Toolkit java 399 javax swing Imagelcon lt init gt Imagelcon java 95 javax swing Imagelcon lt init gt Imagelcon Jjava 106 org eso gasgano GasProp loadProperties GasProp java 275 org eso gasgano Gasgano lt init gt Gasgano java 139 org eso gasgano Gasgano main Gasgano java 26 Ph ECAT Cr cr er ee vom om m m Your local directory structure and configuration files With the default installation a directory gasgano is created under HOME This directory contains all the executables and the accessory files These files should never be modified directly by the user A gasganorc configuration file will be created in HOME The tool may use additional directories to store keyword lists for reports and filtering of head
4. MESEI EUROPEAN SOUTHERN OBSERVATORY Organisation Europ enne pour des Recherches Astronomiques dans I H misph re Austral Europp ische Organisation f r astronomische Forschung in der s dlichen Hemisph re VERY LARGE TELESCOPE VLT Data Flow System GASGANO User s Manual Doc No VLT PRO ESO 19000 1932 X x Date 15 July 2001 Prepared P Amico N Kornweibel M Zamparelli Approved M Peron Released P Quinn Welcome to GASGANO Change Record Issue Section Paragraph Revision Date affected Reason Remarks since last revision 1 0 September 27 Preliminary Draft 1999 1 4 February 26 All Draft PSO Commissioning MAR2001 2001 1 4 February 26 All Revised version 2001 1 5 July 2001 All Public release 2 VLT MAN ESO 19200 XXXXXX Welcome to GASGANO 1 1 1 2 1 3 WELCOME TO GASGANO Gasgano is a Data File Organiser developed and maintained by the European Southern Observatory ESO to help its user community to manage and handle in a systematic way the astronomical data observed and produced within almost all the observatory facilities e g the tool will not help for instance with SEST data The tool is designed according to ESO specifications for fits and tfits files A basic familiarity of the reader with ESO DFS and format standards is assumed throughout this document For more information on this subject refer to section 1 4 Purpose amp Sc
5. V_BESS which classifies a file as FORS1 frame that was either observed under the engineering standard Run ID or its exposure time is less than 1 minute or its filter is not a V_BESS this example is not in the distributed version of the classification rules 4 Complex rules These rules include combinations of nodes AND and OR and multiple sub expressions conditions on keywords The indentation gives the order of execution of each single block of constraints AND DPRCATG CALIB AND DPR TYPE like WAVE DPR TYPE like LAMP DPR TECH SPECTRUM which classifies a frame as ARC_LSS for FORS2 The inline translation of this rule in algebric notation is DPR CATG CALIB amp DPR TYPE like WAVE amp DPR TYPE like LAMP amp DPR TECH SPECTRUM This rule can be simplified eliminating the innermost AND amp clause and putting all 4 constraints under the same AND node AND 28 VLT MAN ESO 19200 XXXXXX Configuring GASGANO Do it first DPR CATG SCIENCE DPR TYPE SKY DPR TECH MOS D V MOS_mos_obs_ Stare OR F TPL TPL D V MOS_mos_obs_jitter which classifies as MOS_SCIENCE frames taken with VIMOS The corresponding expression in algebric notation is DPR CATG SCI ENCE amp DPR TYPE SKY
6. The recommended RTD viewer is also capable of dealing with data cubes In addition to the tool bar button the viewer can be launched to display a file selection through the Menu Bar Files gt Display item 5 8 Copying Moving Files Gasgano can move or copy files from their loading location to another selected by the user After selection of file s click on the Menu Bar on Selected Files gt Copy or Selected Files gt Move A window similar to that shown in Figure 10 appears it allows browsing on the file system in order to select the destination directory When the location has been selected click on the Copy Move button According to the operation Gasgano may behave in different ways 1 If files are moved to a new directory i e not loaded the directory is automatically loaded by the tool 2 If files are copied to a new directory the directory is not automatically loaded 3 If files are copied or moved to a directory which is already loaded nothing happens Manual refresh has to be forced click on File gt Refresh in the Menu bar It is not possible to delete a file with Gasgano but you can move files to a wastebasket directory in your file system and then remove them manually 5 9 Creating a tar file To create a tar file out of a set of selected files click on the Menu bar Selected Files gt Tar A window similar to the one shown in Figure 10 appears Select the destination directory and type the name o
7. 2001 04 26T10 10 08 R TPLSTART 2001 04 26 11 28 42 Gi TPL START 2001 04 26T11 40 41 ISAAC 2001 04 26T11 43 53 793 fits ISAAC 2001 04 26T1 1 45 06 335 fits ISAAC 200 1 04 2671 1 46 27 708 fits fl ISAAC 200 1 04 2671 1 47 40 216 fits ISAAC 200 1 04 2671 1 49 01 586 fits fi ISAAC 200 1 04 2671 1 50 14 115 fits ISAAC 200 1 04 2671 11 51 51 126 fits Figure 11 snapshot of the Navigation Panel when the Group by Directory option is selected In addition to the three levels OBS PROG ID 60 A 9021 A OBS ID 200004904 and TPL START the path of the files is included on top these files are under the directory raid51_isaac isaac raw 010425 The Group by Telescope option works in the same way as the Group by Directory and adds a top layer which group files according to the keyword TELESCOP e g ESO VLT U1 This option is mainly thought for ESO internal use 5 2 2 Expanding and collapsing the view The first time a data set is loaded into the application the tree in the selected view e g the Default grouping is collapsed and only the list of the top folders e g the list of OBS PROG ID is shown In order to view the content of the folders below single click on any point on the folder line i e a click on the node the folder icon or on the name Clicking a second time closes the folder that is the double click has no effect and if you are fast enough no changes in the
8. amp DPR TECH MOS amp TPL ID VIMOS_mos _obs_Stare OR TPL ID VIMOS_mos_obs_jitter OR AND TPL D SAACSW_img_obs_AutoJitter AND DPR TYPE OBJECT DE TPL SAACSW_img_obs_AutoJitterOffset which classifies as J expression in algebraic notation is DPR TYPE 0BJECT TTER_OBJ frames taken with ISAAC The corresponding TPL ID ISAACSW_img_obs_AutoJitter amp DPR TYPE OBJECT OR TPL ID ISAACSW_img_obs_AutoJitterOffset amp DPR TYPE OBJECT The same classification rule can be written in different ways As a rule it is recommended to privilege first human readability like in the case above and then to use the logical expression with the least possible number of constraints The higher this number the slower will be the tool in classifying files It is the responsibility of the user to ensure that there are no contradicting rules or that no rule is a subset of another The tool applies the rules for file classification in the order in which they are present in the classification rules file Therefore the first rule is always applied You may need to use a rule that is a subset of another one For example AND F TPL ID SAACLW_IMG_OBS_AUTOJITTER and AND DPR TYPE 0OBJECT SAACLW_I
9. but the first one are deleted Once the rule is modified you submit it to the file using the row of buttons at the bottom of the window respectively the buttons are Up Down Add Rule Replace Rule Reset Rule Dismiss There are various possibilities 1 Click on the Replace Rule button to replace the existing rule with the new one 2 Click on the Add Rule button to add this rule to the list of existing one Beware to avoid having two rules with the same name the Classification field must be edited 3 Click on the Reset Rule button to revert to the original rule that is UNDO Before adding or replacing the rule be sure of checking that the Instrument field is correct If you add a rule before changing its classification or in other words you have two rules with the same name you can select the wrong one and delete it via the Delete Rule button Alternatively you can select it modify the Classification field and then use the Replace Rule button What happens if there are two identical rules or two rules with the same name Nothing bad The tool classifies the files using the rules in the order they are present in GASGANO User s Manual Last saved 01 02 2002 31 Configuring GASGANO Do it first the classification rule file The second instance of the rule will therefore never be applied 4 2 3 Creating a new rule Advanced users If the application is started with no classification rules fi
10. printf s n i gt gt tmp name ascii done gt Run eclipse is_twflat xterm e sh c SE_PATH bin isaacp twflat e b i tmp name ascii o GAS_TMP_DIR name SE_PATH bin is rename GAS_TMP DIR S name rm tmp name ascii read dummy amp The part in bold in the example shows the call to the script Here E_PATH bin is the standard path to eclipse routines once you have installed the software In order to see the output of the eclipse routine xterm is called The options e sh c commandl command2 command3 allow the user to execute a series of commands in the terminal session For more information on the options for xterm see the Unix man pages The first command E_PATH bin isaacp twflat calls the eclipse routine with some options e b e o see the twflat online help manual page within isaacp 5 the second command separated by a E_PATH bin is_rename calls another eclipse routine which renames the product name which is the output of the twflat recipe in GAS_TMP_DIR using the ESO naming convention for data products online help type is_rename This command is optional and displayed here for explanatory purposes The last command read dummy serves the purpose to leave the xterm session open and to check the output of the eclipse routine Pressing the lt RET gt key in the window closes it The amp at the end provide a means to run the xterm and comm
11. Save to File in the File Details Panel allows the user to save the currently displayed virtual reduction block to disk It is possible to save and subsequently edit virtual reduction blocks from within the application Save the virtual reduction block to a file Load the file into Gasgano or simply refresh the view if it was saved in currently loaded directory Edit it using an editing script from the Script Board E g a shell script that calls you favourite ASCII file editor GASGANO User s Manual Last saved 01 02 2002 51 Reference guide 7 ESO THE DATABASE VIEW TBD 52 VLT MAN ESO 19200 XXXXXX The DATABASE view 8 REFERENCE GUIDE 8 1 Summary of Inputs Table 1 Keyboard shortcuts SHORTCUT ACTION CTRL r Open keyword list editor CTRL s Toggle open close the Script Board CTRL c in the File Detail Panel Copy content of selection to CTRL v in a text filed such as Paste the content of the Clipboard Table 2 Mouse actions BUTTON CONTEXT EFFECT Left click Navigation panel on Expand the corresponding item nodes folder icons folder showing its sub components lines Left click Navigation panel on files Select the file Right click Navigation panel on Selection of all files included in the nodes folder icons folder folder and its subfolders lines Right click Keyword lists editors also Add insert empty row above in Preferences edito
12. The data product containing the result of an observation Different instrument modes produce in general different observation frames Real Time Display The Real Time Display software or RTD was designed to display astronomical images either from image files or from some external source such as a CCD camera or external process via shared memory Reduction Block RB it is the equivalent of the Observation Block at the end of the data flow system chain It defines the basic blocks needed for the data reduction software to process data A reduction block contains the name of the instrument which produced the frames the reduction recipe which has to be applied the name of the output files the products the list of raw frames to be used as input to the reduction recipe and all parameters and master calibration files to be used as additional inputs The reduction block is created by the DO software as an ASCII file with extension rb After processing by the RBS software the extension is renamed to rX executed rZ failed no product produced rY some error in execution The reduction block allows the application to associate the raw files and the master calibrations to the products generated by a recipe When a reduction block file is not present Gasgano is still able to visualize a so called virtual reduction block which works exactly as a real one and serves the same association purpose The virtual reduction block is created by me
13. VINCI L Insert Row Delete Row OK Cancel Figure 5 The Menus and Instruments register in the Preferences Menu 4 1 3 ESO Configuring the Databases register GASGANO User s Manual Last saved 01 02 2002 23 Configuring GASGANO Do it first You can skip this subsection and go to the next chapter if you are not an ESO internal user The Databases register shown in Figure 6 allows specific settings related to the Database view When Gasgano is started on an ESO workstation the upper part of the Main Screen is divided into registers in addition to the Navigation Panel of the Filesystem View there is a Navigation Panel of the Database View and a Results register Clicking on the register icon situated at the bottom left of the Navigation panel a different register is selected The Database view shows the content of the Observations Database in the ESO archive organised in a virtual view trees structure identical to that offered for the file system the files are organised by oBS PROG ID and OBS ID More information on the database view in Chapter 7 The use of the database requires possessing an account with permission to access the obrep2 and observation databases The Read observations from database toggle button activates the Database View in the Main Panel The fields below allow the user to specify the connectivity parameters for database access In particular 1
14. and the contents are free Once the list is complete click on File gt Save As to save the file The file should be optionally saved in the directory specified in the Preferences Data register for the keyword lists since this is the directory where Gasgano looks when trying to load a keyword list file To edit an existing file click on File gt Open in the Menu bar of the keyword list editor The tool opens the usual file system browse window in the default directory as specified in the Preferences Browse and or select the file click Load Edit the file as needed and then save To create a new file click on File gt New File gt Quit quits the editor without saving the file The keyword list files are standard ASCII files and can be edited with any editor without having to use the built in editor GASGANO User s Manual Last saved 01 02 2002 41 A simple session 5 11 5 12 OBS PROG ID OBS ID l Obs ID OBS TARG NAME Target OBS TPLNO T num TPLID TPL id TPL NEXP NN TPLEXPNO IX num ARCFILE Archive File Name ORIGFILE Orig Flle Name DPR CATG DPR Cat DPR TYPE DPR Type DPR TECH DPR Tech TELAIRM START AirM ra dec Insert Row Delete Row Figure 13 the Keyword List Editor The list of keywords has been edited and the file saved to disk Filtering file headers On the top part of the File Detail Panel there are a Load Filter button and a Filter toggle on off button Click on Load fi
15. completion status from the obreb2 database provided the user has an account with read permission to the database 2 2 Gasgano ata glance Figure 1 shows the main screen of the tool It consists of three panels the Navigation Panel on the top the File Association Panel in the middle and the File Detail Panel on the bottom Sliding bars separates the panels and allows panel resizing i On the left hand end of each panel bar there are two control buttons of triangular shape which allow expanding and collapsing of a panel both upward and downward ESO The Navigation Panel consists of three different registers In addition to the Filesystem view there is a Database view and a Results view The former allows connection to the ESO observations database and shows the files organised by OBS PROG ID and OBS ID The Result view allow the user to browse an info file as created by the data packer software and shows sets of raw science files and their associated calibrations 1 The Navigation Panel contains a the Menu bar File Selected Files Tools and Help Q the Toolbar The Toolbar from left to right shows the External Viewer button to start a viewing application e g RTD and display the selected file the Frame Report button which creates custom reports the script board button which launches the script board window to run selected executables The three buttons operate on selected files
16. files by name to external applications provides a mean to filter the file sets based on keyword expressions File filters can be edited and saved and loaded from disk provides a mean to classify files based on keyword expressions provides keyword expression functionality to define filter and classification rules These expression include AND OR gt lt gt lt and operators Overview 12 provides a mean to interactively refresh the display of a file set reflecting the addition of new files modification of exiting files or removal of files from the file system 13 provides a mean to search keywords within a displayed header 14 provides a mean to search for files based on the entries displayed 15 provides a mean to send one or more FITS files to image display software e g RTD 16 ESO provides a mean to connect to the ESO VLT Observations database and view its content organised by Run ID and OBS ID It is possible to restrict the view to specific observing periods e g observing period 67 all Run IDS of the kind 67 167 267 X 0000 X to filter the views to search for entries and to download files from the archive provided the user has an account with the proper permissions set If unsure of your account status and permissions contact the VLT archive catalog eso org 17 ESO provides a mean to complement the filesystem view with information on the OBS
17. in the Preference Editor Panel and those in the gasganorc file Field in preference editor Entry in resource file User s guide gasganorc Register Data Data_Directories_and_files with button Add DATA_FILES The list of directories or files File and button Remove Selected Files automatically loaded at application startup Keyword List directory KEYWORDLIST_DIR The default directory where the application looks for keyword list iles Scripts directory SCRIPTS_DIR The directory where the application looks for executable external commands Filter _Rule file FILTER_FILE The file containing the rules for Navigation Panel filtering Filesystem view ee ASSE The file containing the classification rules ASCII files Shorten data files path for commands SHORTEN_FILES_PATH True false specifies whether command piped to the shell should be shortened Automatic Filessystem Refresh UPDATE_TIMER 1 2 5 30 frequency for automatic ilesystem update erbosed Register Databases Database Read_observations_from_Databas DBOBS_REQUIRED True false ESO whether the e database view is active Database server URL DBOBS_SERVER_URL The fully qualified hostname and port for the database server containing the observations database Database server ID DBOBS_SERVER_ID An identifier for the server containing the observations database Database username DBOBS_USERID The userid to log into the abovementioned database OB_status Display OB
18. inserted in the field and OK is pressed the content of the filed is reset to the previous value TPLID si MISAACSw_spec_cal_Arcs Keyword values upper case with dot notation TPL ID ORIGFILE OBS NAME RA String values contained within double quotes flat_001 SCIENCE 23 04 97 12 3 Numeric values 12 13 5 0 7 45 4f 23 like notlike String value using as a wild card flat NTT ok cancel Figure 8 Editing Boolean expression window Syntax and examples are explained in the text below the editable fields Below the editable field in Editing Boolean expression window there are some basic examples on how to type the rules As a basic rule beware of always putting double quotes for strings use as wildcard characters works only with the logical expression like andnotlike do not use quotes for numeric values It is possible to add a node after a sub expression simply selecting the sub expression and clicking on the Add Node button Viceversa it is possible to add a sub expression under a node clicking on the node and then on the Add Sub Expression button Whenever an operation is not possible e g adding a node under another node the corresponding button his greyed out e g Add Node It is possible to transform a node into a sub expression selecting the node and then clicking on the Change to Sub Expression button In this event all sub expressions under this node
19. not fixed Upon selection of a file in the Navigation Panel files from the various sections of the virtual reduction block will be listed in the different registers of the File Association Panel 50 VLT MAN ESO 19200 XXXXXX An advanced session Register Raw Files lists all raw files used to create a product Clicking on any of these entries sets the selection in the Navigation Panel to this file If the file is not loaded a File not loaded message is displayed in the File Details Panel Register Master Calib File lists the master calibration products used during data reduction In the example in Figure 16 these files are IS_SSAM_010608A_SK_s03t_216_Xe Ar tfits and IS_SSFM_010608A_SK_s03t_216 fits both stored in the directory raid5l_isaac isaac raw gasgano_swap test and both currently loaded into the application In the case if a virtual reduction block we know that these files are currently loaded in the application as they are displayed with the full path information Register Reduction Block Files lists all reduction blocks associated with the selected file Clicking on any entry listed in this register will display the reduction block in the File Details Panel Register Product Files lists all products associated with the selected file Clicking on any file listed in the Product Files register selects this file in the Navigation Panel if the file is currently loaded in the application The button
20. of the VLT Unit telescopes and their instruments Any file which is neither fits or tfits that is fits and tfits extensions is ignored by the tool upon loading The only exception to this rule are plain ASCII files which are recognised loaded and displayed provided that the tool is configured to recognise their extension More on configuration can be found in chapter 4 After a set of VLT standard files is loaded into the tool more on this in chapter 5 the main panel resembles Figure 2 The Navigation Panel displays 98 files organised in folders according to their Run ID e g 67 D 0351 A their OBS ID e g 105201 and optionally according to a user selected keyword e g TPL START which groups all files observed within the same template execution The Run ID folder line usually contains also the instrument name taken from the INSTRUME keyword of the first file listed in the folder This view is also called a tree because files are organised in a tree like structure with the OBS PROG ID OBS ID and TPL START in this example Another keyword may be selected as branches The view can be modified in many ways more on this in section 5 2 Each folder is displayed with a node icon a folder icon and a line of text describing the folder folder line The latter may be for instance the combination of the OBS PROG ID INSTRUME keywords as seen in Figure 2 E g 60 A 9021 A ISAAC Clicking on any folder line or icon
21. released l to be re executed canceled Alzi olx Pls v loloj Insert Row Delete Row OK Cancel Figure 6 The Databases register in the Preferences Menu of the Gasgano application for ESO users 4 2 Editing the classification rules Gasgano provides a mean to classify files based on keyword expressions The concept of classification of files is used within the VLT DFS by the Data Organiser which classifies files according to fits keyword related rules and then creates reduction block to be sent to the data reduction pipeline Classification of files according to user specified rules might be useful for quick look assessment of a data package and for data reduction purposes Gasgano classifies files as they are loaded comparing the value of specific keywords in their headers with the rules specified in the file by default HOME gasgano rules rul which is located in the directory specified in the Data register of the Preference Editor see subsection 4 1 1 The rules are applied in the order they are written in the classification rule file If there is conflict between rules identical or similar intersecting rules the first in the file has the precedence Gasgano is distributed to the users with a default classification rules file which can be edited to meet the user s specific needs This file contains basic classification rules for all the available VLT instruments and it is updated
22. statistics for header read classification and overall file read times Events redundant to be deleted in future releases ExpressionAndRules verbose info concerning the classification rule editor and the visualization of Expressions as strings Database ESO all queries and database initialization procedures All the union of all the verbose levels 62 VLT MAN ESO 19200 XXXXXX
23. the basis of keyword properties or values The concept is similar to that of the classification rules It is possible to set a constraint on a keyword or a set of keywords by means of AND OR logical expressions and to have the tool displaying only those files that fulfil the condition To filter files click on the Menu bar under File gt Filter files A new panel called Filter Builder appears Figure 12 It consists of an upper window empty at first use After each use of the filtering option the filter rules will be remembered and listed in this window for re use The lower window allows editing in the same way as the Classification rules builder window Refer to section 4 2 for a description of the syntax and how to edit the rules The rule displayed in the lower window of the Filter Builder is the one that is applied to the loaded data set once the OK button is pressed Rules are saved in the HOME gasgano filter rul file unless otherwise specified in the Preferences OBS PROG ID like 66 C KEYWORD value TPLID ISAACSW_img_tec_Zp DET DIT 1 7726 AND DET NDIT 10 0 INS FILT1 NAME Ks INS FILT1 NAME H INS FILT1 NAME H AND CLASSIFICATION Acquisition AND INS FILT1 NAME H CLASSIFICATION Acquisition Change to Sub Expression Add Sub Expression Delete Add Node OK Delete Expression Cancel Figure 12 The Filter
24. the server URL in the format jdbc sybase Tds lt hostname gt lt portnumber gt 2 the server ID simply for identification purposes Example ESOECF 3 the username used to connect to the server Contact your Database Administrator for the correct values for the server you wish to connect to The Display OB Status from database toggle indicates whether the return status from the execution of an OB should be queried from the database and displayed in the application The OB Status is then displayed in the OBS ID folder line after the OBS ID number in the Navigation Panel If set to on the fields below have to be filled with all the necessary information for database connectivity Ask your database administrator or DMD personnel for assistance The lower part of the panel contains a code string association table for displaying purposes when the OB statuses from database are requested Example when the query to the database for a certain OB returns the value x the folder line for that OB displays the message executed 24 VLT MAN ESO 19200 XXXXXX Configuring GASGANO Do it first Read observations from database server URL server ID username vi Display OB Status from database server URL username OB Status Label Partially defined Defined queued for scheduling Initiated Started paused during execution Aborted executed reduced Completed
25. without wildcard characters must be entered The search is case insensitive Once found in the panel the line containing the string is highlighted To find an entry in a fits header in the File Details panel proceed in the same way using the Find in header filed on the panel s toolbar 5 7 Displaying Files Gasgano offers the possibility to define default file viewers as explained in the section 4 1 1 even though NO viewers are distributed together with the application The simplest way to display a file is to select it and to click on the leftmost button icon on GASGANO User s Manual Last saved 01 02 2002 39 A simple session the Toolbar The selected file is passed to the defined application script which displays the file It is possible to define three types of viewers which will automatically started by the tool according to the type of selection in the Navigation Panel 1 Single tfits table the tool runs the tfits viewer 2 Single fits selection the tool runs the fits file viewer 3 Multiple fits file selection the tool runs a viewer that accepts data cubes in input As explained in section 4 1 1 it is advisable to call to a script rather than a viewer application that the viewer may be run in the background This avoids freezing Gasgano The example script load_rtd given in the same section shows how it is possible to configure a viewer in such a way that it automatically takes input files from Gasgano
26. 01 06 08T22 30 54 343 fits 46 VLT MAN ESO 19200 XXXXXX An advanced session Even if the files are shown in the Navigation Panel without the path the option truncate filenames in the Preferences Display register is turned on the path is passed to the executable 2 In case the Supply Classification toggle button on the Script Board window is turned on each file and its classification separated by a space are passed as a list aiska test ISAAC 2001 06 08T22 28 22 108 fits TWFLAT diska test ISAAC 2001 06 08T22 28 47 361 fits TWFLAT diska test ISAAC 2001 06 08T22 29 12 282 fits TWFLAT aiska test ISAAC 2001 06 08T22 29 38 666 fits TWFLAT diska test ISAAC 2001 06 08T22 30 03 865 fits TWFLAT diska test ISAAC 2001 06 08T22 30 28 985 fits TWFLAT diska test ISAAC 2001 06 08T22 30 54 343 fits TWFLAT 3 In case the Supply Classification toggle button on the Script Board window is turned off and the shorten data files paths for command toggle button in Preferences Data register is set off files are passed as a list separated by spaces ISAAC 2001 06 08T22 28 22 108 fits ISAAC 2001 06 08T22 28 47 361 fits ISAAC 2001 06 08T22 29 12 282 fits ISAAC 2001 06 08T22 29 38 666 fits ISAAC 2001 06 08T22 30 03 865 fits ISAAC 2001 06 08T22 30 28 985 fits ISAAC 2001 06 08T22 30 54 343 fits 2 Linking to an ASCII editor to edit an ASCII file for instance a reduction block file created form a virtual reduction block and saved to file se
27. Builder window In this example rules are saved in the file filter rul It is possible to configure the file and its location through the File gt Preferences panel The upper window shows a list of rules The selected rule is displayed in the lower window and it is the one which is applied to the data set loaded by the application all files with filter set to H and with CLASSIFICATION other than Acquisition are displayed The others are filtered out by the application Once the filter has been applied the first row of the Navigation Panel displays a message In the example of Figure 12 the message is Displaying X files Filter INS FILT1 NAME H AND CLASSIFICATION Acquisition 38 VLT MAN ESO 19200 XXXXXX A simple session Where x is equal to an integer number including O if no files that fulfil the constraints are found To remove the filter click on the Menu bar the File gt Unfilter files When a data set is filtered the application keeps in memory the files that have been filtered out Therefore removing a filter does not require files to be reloaded from disk The filter files option is very useful when dealing with a large data set It is recommended to load the entire data set the first time and then to apply filters One example is for instance to filter out all calibration files DPR CATG CALIB when just a quick look of the scientific frames is needed 5 5 Recl
28. K_s03t_216 fraid51_isaac isaac rawgasgano_swap test ISAAC 2001 06 09707 14 46 460 fits fraid51_isaac isaac raw gasgano_swap test ISAAC 2001 06 09707 16 05 599 fits fraidS1_isaac isaac raw gasgano_swap test ISAAC 2001 06 09707 17 13 448 fits fraidS1_isaac isaac raw gasgano_swap test ISAAC 2001 06 09707 18 32 587 fits fraidS1_isaac isaac raw gasgano_swap test ISAAC 2001 06 09T07 19 40 435 fits fraidS1_isaac isaac raw gasgano_swap test SAAC 2001 06 09T07 20 57 698 fits j fraidS1_isaac isaa fraidS1_isaac isaa Figure 16 snapshot of the File Detail Panel showing a virtual reduction block reconstructed by Gasgano using the HIERARCH ESO PRO REC1 keywords The meaning of various sections of the reduction block is discussed in section 2 2 When more than one virtual reduction block is associated with a selected file all components from all the reduction blocks are combined and listed in the registers If one of these virtual reduction blocks is selected the files associated with the selected reduction block will be displayed in bold in the Raw Files and Products Files registers In a virtual reduction block names of files currently loaded by the application are displayed with their full path on the local file system Names of files not currently loaded by the application are shown without path information This is because the RECI keywords store only file names and contain no path information as the path information is
29. Last saved 01 02 2002 3 Welcome to GASGANO Gasgano is a mouse driven graphical tool Familiarity with the use of a mouse or some other graphical pointing device is assumed Familiarity with VLT Instruments with ESO Fits file headers with the definitions of run ids OBS PROG ID observation blocks OBS ID observing templates and HIERARCH ESO keywords and for internal users with the VLT archive and databases structure is a must 1 4 Reference documents and web pages 1 GEN SPE 19400 794 1 1 25 Nov 97 Data Interface Control Document 2 VLT SPE ESO 19000 0842 0 92 14 Aug 97_ VLT Data Flow System Architectural Design Document 3 VLT PRO ESO 19000 1930 1 0 27 Sep 99 VLT Data Flow System Gasgano DFS File Organiser Design Document 4 For more information on science operations and the VLT data flow point at http www eso org outreach info events ut 1 fl whitebook wb100 html 5 For the example using the eclipse library of data reduction routines chapter 6 http www eso org eclipse http www eso org eclipse eug eug eug html http www eso org eclipse isaac refer also to the online help of eclipse isaacp man recipe_name 6 More information on the Real Time Display software http archive eso org skycat docs rtd 1 5 Glossary 1 5 1 General Where appropriate these definitions were adopted from the Data Interface Control Document XX Minor wording changes have been made since Gasgano is
30. MG_OBS_AUTOJITTER TPL ID DPR TYPE 0OBJECT SEQ CUMOFFSETX 0 If this order is maintained on the classification rule file the second rule will never be applied Inverting the order of the rules ensures that both will be applied As a rule always put the most specific or restrictive rule on top GASGANO User s Man ual Last saved 01 02 2002 29 Configuring GASGANO Do it first 4 2 1 4 2 2 Changing the order of the rules in the classification rules file To change the order of the rules in the classification rules file use the two Up and Down buttons on the bottom of the window first select the rule that has to be moved and then click on the button so many time as many position changes are required You can skip the section 4 2 2 and 4 2 3 if you are a first time user Editing an existing rule Advanced users The easiest way to configure a personal set of classification rules is to modify the rules distributed with the tool the file ALL_rules rul contain rules for all instruments of the VLT commissioned at the time of the release while ISAAC_rules rul FORS1_rules rul FORS2_rules rul UVES_rules rul and VIMOS_rules rul contain the classification rules for the specific instruments The two FORS instruments have the same set of rules but since the tool applies the rules on the basis of the INSTRUME keyword they have to be specified twice either with FORSI or with FORS2 as ins
31. NEXP T ED false EXPNO TPL NEXP rul 1270 800 T_GROUPING ISAAC FORS1 FORS2 UVES VIMOS CONICA EFOSC USI AMI Se O DA AAA Aa A A K nm C DAQQQAQAQAQAADNG DLI USTOM1 USTOM1_LBL Cu USTOM2 USTOM2_LBL Cu USTOM3 USTOM3_LBL Cu USTOM4 USTOM4_LBL Cu SOFI E WFI VINCI MIDI ST_DIR gas keywords ETR IEVE dpcli stom Menul stom Menu2 stom Menu3 stom Menu4 SSSSES SSS EAH Hammer OBSTATUS scheduling D_SORTING false _MAPPING P I Initiated nameschema ARCFILE T nt ag outpath Partially defined D Defined O queued for S Started p Paused during execution A Aborted X Executed R Reduced C Completed L released K Cancelled OB_STA RIN ER TUS_FROM_DB_R NAME RINT_FONT SansSeri RINT_ORI ENTATION P ADEC_CONVERSION tr CRIPTS_DIR scripts HOR TEN_FIL UUN HORT_FIL ENAME t rue TEXTFILE EXTENSIONS FI S_TO_VIEWER PDA TE_TIMER 0 lt ct ERBOSE_I EVEL 0 ES_PATH FOUIRED false 16 ue true ascii paf 58 VLT MAN ESO 19200 XXXXXX Appendix A gasganorc settings The following table contains the correspondence between entries
32. PN is a way of expressing arithmetic and or logical expressions that avoids the use of brackets to define priorities for evaluation of operators Here are some examples not all of them are examples taken from the supplied classification rules files 1 The simplest rule The simplest rule classifies frames using a one keyword classification criteria ISAAC IWFLAT TPL ID ISAACSW_IMG_CAL_TWFLATS Where ISAAC is the instrument TWFLAT is the classification label and the rule states that if in a fits file header the keyword TPL ID observing template 26 VLT MAN ESO 19200 XXXXXX Configuring GASGANO Do it first identity is equal to ISAACSW_IMG_CAL_TWFLATS then this file must be classified as TWFLAT twilight flat In the lower panel the rule will be displayed simply as TPL ID ISAACSW_IMG_CAL_TWELATS File Instrument ISAAC to_be_deleted ORIGFILE like Test ISAAC ITTER_OBI TPL ID ISAACSW_img_obs_Autolitter AND DPR TYPE OBJECT ISAAC JITTER_SKY KTPLID ISAACSW_IMG_OBS_AUTOJITTEROFFSET AND DPR TYPE ISAAC IM_STD_STAR TPLID ISAACSW_IMG_CAL_STANDARDSTAR ISAAC LW_SP_STD_ KTPL ID ISAACLW_SPEC_CAL_STANDARDSTAR AND DPR TYPE ISAAC IM_DARK TPLID ISAACSW_IMG_CAL_DARKS ISAAC SP_DARK TPL ID ISAACSW_SPEC_CAL_DARKS ISAAC TWFLAT KTPLID ISAACSW_IMG_CAL_TWFLATS ISAAC L
33. SWS1 MR 2001 06 09713 32 43 331 fits FLAT ISAAC SWS _MR_ FLATS 0004 f SK open SWS1 MR 2001 06 09T13 42 22 746 fits FLAT ISAAC_SWS_MR FLATS 0011 i SK open SWS1 MR 2001 06 09T13 37 14 975 fits FLAT ISAAC SWS_MR FLATS 0007 h SK open SWS1 MR nd of Report 1 1 5 9 3 1 7 1 1 8 2 6 4 1 7 Figure 14 the Report window A list of files previously selected in the Navigation Panel is displayed with their keyword values If a keyword is not present the header a blank space is left like for ra and dec in this example On the Menu bar of the Report window the File and Options Menus are available The File Menu contains the Print Save As and Quit entries Print sends the report file to the default printer as specified in the Preferences Display and Printing register Save a allows saving the file to disk the usual browse window is open The Options Menu contains the Select Fonts entry When selected it opens the Edit fonts window which allows selecting a different font type and size from the one selected in the Preferences Display and Printing register The selected font is used only for the current report To save it permanently edit the entry in the Preferences a Monospaced fonts are ideal for printing because they maintain the correct alignment of the columns Other fonts may not do this GASGANO User s Manual Last saved 01 02 2002 43 6 1 6 2 AN ADVANCED SESSION This chapter descri
34. W_IM_STD_ TPLID ISAACLW_img_ _cal_StandardStar ISAAC TLW_IM_ Auto TPLID ISAACLW_img_ obs_AutoC hopNod ISAAC Lw SP Auto TPLID ISAACLw_spec_obs_AutoChopNod ISAAC SW_SP_Gen TPLID ISAACSW_spec_obs_GenericOffset ISAAC Sw_IM_Gen TPLID ISAACSW_img_obs_GenericOffset OR TPLID ISAACS ISAAC SW_SP_JITTER TPLID ISAACSW_spec_obs_AutoNodOnslit AND DPR CATG ISAAC Sw_Arcs_ma TPLID ISAACSW_spec_cal_Arcs AND INS OPTI1 ID mask_S2 ISAAC Sw _ rcs sliti TPLID ISAACSW_spec_cal_Arcs AND INS OPTI1 ID slit 1 ISAAC SW_Arcs_ slit2 KTPL ID ISAACSW_ Spec _cal_Arcs AND INS OPTI1 ID slit_ _2 ISAAC sw_Arcs_slit TPLID ISAACSW_spec_cal_Arcs AND INS OPTI1 ID slit_0 6_ti ISAAC Slit Image ORIGFILE like Slit image_ ISAAC SW_ZP TPLID ISAACSW_img_tec_Zp ISAAC LW_ZP TPLID ISAACLW_img_tec_Zp ISAAC Acquisition KORIGFILE like dumpRtd OR ORIGFILE like _acq_Image ISAAC ILLUMFRAME TPLID ISAACSW_img_tec_IllFrame Instrument isaac Classification JITTER_O8 OR AND TPLID ISAACSW_img_obs_Autolitter DPR TYPE OBJECT AND TPLID ISAACSW_img_obs_AutolitterOffset DPR TYPE OBJECT Change to Sub Expression Add Sub Expression Delete Add Node Up Down Add Rule Delete Rule Replace Rule Reset Rule Figure 7 The Clas
35. a row above another one select reference line and right click on the Insert Row button Edit the fields as needed 6 Clickon OK 7 The report is generated and the report window is opened see Figure 14 E AE File Options eport Title Fits File Report ate Generated 04 Jul 2001 11 37 48 ILENAME target name i ndit filtl filt2 ins mode grat wlen expno n exp 1661100 1661100 1661100 1661100 1661100 IS_SSFM_010608A_5K_s03t_216 fits FLAT ISAAC_SWS_MR_FLATS_0001 Y 10 SK open SWS1 MR 1661100 ISAAC 2001 06 09713 34 04 704 fits FLAT ISAAC_SWS_MR FLATS_0005 SK open SWSI MR ISAAC 2001 06 09T13 39 48 863 fits FLAT ISAAC SWS MR FLATS 0009 SK open SWSI MR ISAAC 2001 06 09T13 31 30 824 fits FLAT ISAAC _SWS_MR FLATS 0003 SK open SWSI MR ISAAC 2001 06 09T13 41 01 371 fits FLAT ISAAC SWS MR FLATS 0010 i SK open SWSI MR IS_SSFM_010608A_SK_s12_216 fits FLAT ISAAC_SWS_MR FLATS_0007 f SK open SWSI MR 2 2 2 2 2 0 2 2001 06 09T13 43 35 245 fits FLAT ISAAC _SWS_MR_FLATS_0012 A SK open SWS1 MR 2 1661100 12 2001 06 09T13 28 56 927 fits FLAT ISAAC_SWS_MR_FLATS_0001 A SK open SWS1 MR 2 1661100 2001 06 09T13 38 27 490 fits FLAT ISAAC_SWS_MR_FLATS_0008 SK open SWS1 MR 2 1661100 2001 06 09T13 30 09 451 fits FLAT ISAAC _SWS_MR_FLATS_0002 SK open SWS1 MR 2 1661100 2 1661100 2 1661100 2 1661100 2 1661100 2001 06 09713 35 17 203 fits FLAT ISAAC SWS MR FLATS 0006 i SK open
36. a string operand The RHS may contain characters which are treated as wild cards when matching with the LHS Note Only the wild card is valid there are no other wild card operators available with the Like operator NotLike As for Like but the opposite result is returned upon evaluation Keyword Expression Classes A keyword expression is a tree structure with AND and OR operators as nodes and comparison operators gt lt Like etc as leaves of the tree structure Evaluation of the expression involves evaluation of each of its leaves and nodes in a depth first traversal until a result for the root node is determined The nodes of the tree are either AND or OR operators containing two or more branches The leaves of the nodes must be comparison operators lt etc Each comparison operator contains a RHS Right Hand Side value and LHS Left Hand Side value and an operator Comparison operators may be evaluated as Float objects or String objects depending on the values of operands A comparison will be evaluated using Float objects only if all operands return a valid Float value Failing this the comparison is tried using String objects If comparison using Floats or Strings is not possible the expression will fail to evaluate 56 VLT MAN ESO 19200 XXXXXX The DATABASE view Figure 17 shows a couple of simple expressions and their string representations Q PL ID FORSI_img ca
37. ame 3 Double click on the desired script in the Script Board If the confirm option on the board is active the confirm window should give the message gas script dir your_script path_of_the _selected directory i Clicking with the middle mouse button on the OBS PROG ID or OBS ID folders in the Navigation Panel has the effect of saving the content of the folder line into the internal clipboard Since the tool does not make a check on the meaning of the line but passes it as is to the executable it is responsibility of the user to adapt the script according to the way Gasgano passes arguments If for GASGANO User s Manual Last saved 01 02 2002 45 An advanced session example the user clicks with the middle button on the OBS PROG ID folder containing data for a run ID the folder line passed to the executable is of the kind OBS PROG ID INSTRUME e g 60 A 9021 A ISAAC 6 4 Example scripts Gasgano can run executables in the sense that it passes a list of parameters the files currently selected in the Navigation Panel to an external application The executable may be anything a shell script a C program etc that can be run from the command line It is responsibility of the user to create executables that handle the list of parameters file names and or classification string in a correct way In order for Gasgano to see the application and to display it in the Script Board the executable or a lin
38. ands in the background without freezing Gasgano 6 5 File associations GASGANO User s Manual Last saved 01 02 2002 49 An advanced session At the end of the data reduction process additional keywords are written in the header of the data products These keywords HIERARCH ESO PRO REC1 XXX XXX where the XXX XXX may vary provide a means to associate raw files their products and the master calibrations product used in the data reduction process The File Association Panel uses these keywords to show associations between raw frames and frames reduced by any one of the instrument data reduction pipelines As explained in section 2 2 Gasgano is able to reconstruct these associations and display them in a virtual reduction block When the user selects a file in the Navigation Panel all the associations between this and other files are displayed in the File Association Panel The associations displayed may list name of files that are not currently loaded in Gasgano Note that pipeline products produced earlier than period 68 that is earlier than October 2001 may not contain the PRO REC1 keywords Therefore the extrapolation of a virtual RB is not possible If available the tool will recognise reduction Block file rb rX etc and use them to build associations An example of virtual reduction block is shown in Figure 16 recipe isaac_spec_obs_nodonsilit save to file instrument ISAAC IS_SSCM_010608A_S
39. ans of keywords REC1 keywords saved in the header of all data products The virtual reduction block is a feature introduced during observing period 67 in some test cases Therefore data sets distributed before April 2001 are not compatible with it Reduction Block Scheduler RBS software part of the DFS which operates on Reduction Blocks obtained from the Data Organizer it analyzes the RB checks the presence of input files and fires the corresponding data reduction recipe Pipeline Reduced Frame the result of data reduction applied to either raw or calibration frames Reduced frames are also called pipeline products Run ID Same as Observing Program ID the ID of an Observing Run The format is PPP X 0000 X Valid Run ID examples 63 A 0352 A 167 A 4563 B The Run ID is stored in the HIERARCH ESO OBS PROG ID keyword Service Mode SM observing operations mode where the astronomer submits a detailed description of their observing program to ESO for later possible execution Service Mode programs are executed primarily in order of their ESO Observing Programs Committee assigned priority but only when the astronomer specified observing conditions are achieved onsite Science Observation Blocks Observation Blocks used to acquire scientific data 6 VLT MAN ESO 19200 XXXXXX Welcome to GASGANO Template a high level data acquisition operation Templates provide the means to group commonly used procedures into w
40. assify and or Refresh the view It is possible to force the application to reclassify all files loaded that is re apply the classification rules clicking in the Menu Bar on File gt Reclassify Reclassification of files is done automatically by the application every time the classification rule file name is changed in the Preferences but it has to be done manually by the user every time s he modifies the rules The Refresh option under File gt Refresh in the Menu bar allows refreshing the view in the Navigation Panel The automatic refresh option is useful when the content of the loaded directories changes frequently for instance while moving or copying files outside the tool If this is not the case since the application freezes for a short time during the refresh it is recommended to set the field in the Preferences to No update and perform a manual refresh in case is needed Itis possible to have an automatic refresh of the loaded directories by setting up the refresh time in the File gt Preferences Data register 5 6 Finding tools It is possible to find entries in the Navigation Panel and in the File Details Panel by means of the Find tools To find an entry in the Navigation Panel type the string to be looked form in the field Find an entry on the upper toolbar and then click on find to the right Clicking twice or more on it will search for other entries of the same string in the panel The string is searched as is and
41. atabase browser to easily locate and view data sets corresponding to a given observing program or taken with a given instrument or a given telescope This functionality is only available with ESO observations database 2 1 DIE a ee 10 11 What Gasgano does The Gasgano tool provides a means to display sets of DFS data files grouped in a virtual directory structure which reflects the program and observation grouping of the data files The grouping of files allows easy identification of all data files associated with a OBS PROG ID and an OBS ID An additional instrument specific level of keyword based grouping can be added Gasgano recognises fits files and fits tables and ASCH files by means of their file extensions e g fits and tfits provide a means to classify files according to a user defined sets of rules The classification of a file is stored in the Gasgano Meta keyword CLASSIFICATION provides a clear mapping between raw fits files pipeline products and master calibration files provides a mean to select files for e g display of header keywords and image data provides a mean to move copy files to other directories provides a mean to generate reports for a set of selected files These reports may be configured by definitin of list of header keywords to be printed in a tabular form provides a mean to select sets of files for archiving to standard applications e g tar provides a mean to send selected list of
42. ation panel for the database Register Menus amp lnstruments instrument specific intermediate grouping filesystem only IntermediateGroupT able INSTRUMENT_GROUPING List of semicolon separated pairs lof INSTRUMENT KEYWORD to be used for further instrument roupin Field in preference editor Entry in resource file User s guide gasganorc database pull down menus associations database_pull_down_menus raw1 col2 MENU_CUSTOM1_LBL Label for custom menu1 database only database_pull_down_menus raw1 col3 MENU_CUSTOM1 Application bound to menu item 1 database_pull_down_menus raw2 col2 MENU_CUSTOM2_LBL Label for custom menu2 database only database_pull_down_menus raw2 col3 MENU_CUSTOM2 Application bound to menu item 2 database_pull_down_menus raw3 col2 MENU_CUSTOM3_LBL Label for custom menu3 database only database_pull_down_menus raw3 col3 MENU_CUSTOM3 Application bound to menu item 3 database_pull_down_menus raw4 col2 MENU_CUSTOM4_LBL Label for custom menu4 database only database_pull_down_menus raw4 col3 MENU_CUSTOM4 Application bound to menu item 4 database_pull_down_menus raw5 col3 MENU_RETRIEVE Application to retrieve a file from he databaseaime he following information are not available via the PreferenceEditor Panel FRAME_BOUNDS ormat X Y Width Height he size and location of the main rame when the preferences are laccepted DISPLAY_COLUMNS SIZE he size in points of the columns of he Navigation Panel Filesyste
43. bed advanced features of the application Running external executables Just as a set of selected files can be sent to the tar copy and move command it may be also sent to a user selected executable The files selected in the Navigation Panel are passed as command line parameters one file per parameter with the full path name On demand the full path may be dropped and the external command executed after a cd into the common directory of all selected files This requires that all selected files are stored in the same directory In order to drop the path activate shorten data files paths for commands button in the File gt Preferences Data register There are two ways to send selected files to a custom program 1 Select one data set and use the option Run from the Selected Files menu in the Menu bar A browse window appears Locate the script select it and click on Run or double click on the script name to execute Click Okin the confirmation window 2 Use the Script Board This option is suitable to a situation where several instrument dependent external commands have to be executed frequently The Script Board The Script Board is an additional window which shows a configured set of commands corresponding to executable files in the file system The window can be left open while using Gasgano It is activated by clicking on the Script Board button the third from the left on the tool bar or selecting Script Board from
44. c isaac rawgasgano_swap test ISAAC 2001 06 09707 17 13 448 fits fraid51_isaac isaac raw gasgano_swap test ISAAC 2001 06 09707 18 32 587 fits fraid51_isaac isaac raw gasgano_swap test ISAAC 2001 06 09T07 19 40 435 fits fraidS1_isaac isaac raw gasgano_swap test ISAAC 2001 06 09707 20 57 698 fits fraidS1_isaac isaac 6_Xe Ar tits fraid51_isaaciis gasgano_swap wgasgano_swapitest 0106 s0 6 fits v Figure 2 Gasgano s main panel after loading a typical VLT data set In this specific example files observed with the VLT Antu telescope and ISAAC are shown Refer to the text for a description of this figure The first row of the Navigation Panel displays a message indicating how many files are loaded and whether or not they are grouped or filtered more on grouping and filtering in Chapter 5 sections 5 2 1 and 5 4 The typical message is Displaying nnn files Unfiltered GASGANO User s Manual Last saved 01 02 2002 13 Overview The lower File Detail Panel displays the virtual reduction block associated with the science spectrum As explained in the glossary reduction blocks list all the ingredients used to create a reduced frame The reduction block can be an ASCII file created by the Data Organiser or can be virtual that is created on the fly by Gasgano using header keywords information In Figure 2 a virtual reduction block for the selected file is displayed in the File Details Panel Its compon
45. cludes a set of FITS keywords and a set of variables characterizing the category to which the data belong Based on an event handling rule which defines the calibration strategy it reacts upon events e g delivery of a raw frame by an instrument through the archive completion of a template or of an observation block and applies a hierarchy of Reduction Rules for creating a reduction plan for one or more data products creating a set of Reduction Blocks to be executed in a given order Data Products data files delivered to PI Co Is as result of the execution of ESO observing programs or setup information submitted to ESO in relation to observing programs Data products include observation frames observatory calibrations meteorological and seeing measurements relevant to primary observations etc Exposure a synonym for the acquisition of a single data frame typically resulting in a single FITS file Header Keywords header keywords can be standard FITS 8 character long e g TELESCOP MJD OBS ESO standard e g HIERARCH ESO OBS PROG ID or Gasgano Meta Keywords see sections 8 2 and 8 3 Within Gasgano HIERARCH ESO keywords are specified in dot notation without the HIERACH ESO part E g OBS PROG ID Master calibration product a reduced frame used as a master for calibration of science and calibration raw frames Observing Run an approved ESO Program consists of one or more Observing Run
46. collapse Find entry ssc find 1 File _CLASSIFICATION DET DIT DET NDIT INS MODE INS FI JINS G O amp Displaying 98 files Unfiltered Bid 60 A 9021 A ISAAC Bid 67 B 0026 4 ISAAC Bid 67 D 0351 A ISAAC EB 105201 Gi TPLSTART 2001 06 09T07 10 41 ISAAC 2001 06 09T07 14 46 460 fits SW_SP_JITTER 60 0000 1 SwS1 SK rl ISAAC 2001 06 09T07 16 05 599 fits SW_SP_JITTER 60 0000 1 SWS1 SK BV ive ISAAC 200 1 06 09T07 17 13 448 fits Sw_SP_JITTER 60 0000 1 SWS1 SK 2 1 ISAAC 2001 06 09T07 18 32 597 fits SW_SP_JITTER 60 0000 1 SWS1 SK 21 ISAAC 2001 06 09T07 19 40 435 fits Sw_SP_JITTER 60 0000 1 SWS1 SK Zia fi ISAAC 2001 06 09T07 20 57 698 fits Sw_SP_JITTER 60 0000 1 SWS1 SK 21 EI IS_SSCM_010608A_SK_503t_216_105201 fits SPECTRA_COMB 60 0000 1 SWS1 SK Zale IS_SSCM_0106084_SK_sO3t_216_105201 tfits SPEC_EXTRACTED 60 0000 1 SWS1 SK Dele A ISAAC 2001 06 09T07 14 46 460_sta sell ay Raw Files Master Calib Files Reduction Block Files Product Files raid51_isaac isaac raw gasgano_swap test IS_SSAM_010608A4_SK_sO3t_216_Xe A r tfits raid51_isaac isaac raw gasgano_swap test IS_SSFM_010608A_SK_s03t_216 fits recipe isaac_spec_obs_nodonslit save to file instrument ISAAC IS_SSCM_010608A_SK_s03t_216 fraid51_isaac isaac rawgasgano_swap test ISAAC 2001 06 097T07 14 46 460 fits fraid51_isaac isaac raw gasgano_swap test ISAAC 2001 06 09707 16 05 599 fits fraid51_isaa
47. e section 6 5 create a link in the common script directory In s mypath emacs edit_ascii The edit_ascii file will be visible in the Script Board To use it select an ASCII file and double click on edit_ascii NOTE Gasgano freezes until the emacs session is concluded The same procedure can be followed to create a link to any executable 3 A simple parser for the list of parameters this shell script expects as input a list of file names from Gasgano it assumes the option Supply Classification in the Script is turned off The file should be saved in the common script directory e g call it crea_list_of_frames When executing select the files in the Navigation Panel and double click on crea_list_of_frames in the Script Board If the Script Board is positioned on an instrument specific script directory use the override button reference XXX bin sh Example shell script to be used with Gasgano crea_list_of_frames sh creates a file framelist ascii to be used with eclipse recipes gt move to the working directory GAS_TMP_DIR mypath gasgano cd SGAS_TMP_DIR GASGANO User s Manual Last saved 01 02 2002 47 An advanced session gt Clean old stuff if s GAS_TMP DIR framelist ascii then rm S GAS TMP DIR framelist ascii fi gt Format input for eclipse routine list echo for i i n Llist do printf s n i gt gt framelis
48. e tool is modified by means of the Preference panel the corresponding setting is saved into the gasganorc file This is a standard ASCII file containing a list of entries with the format KEYWORD value E g CLASSRULE_FILE my_gasgano_path UVES_rules rul specifies the name of the classification rule file 32 VLT MAN ESO 19200 XXXXXX Configuring GASGANO Do it first A list of all the possible entries in the gasganorc file and their meaning is given in chapter 9 It is recommended for the normal user to modify the preferences from within the tool instead of editing manually the gasganorc file GASGANO User s Manual Last saved 01 02 2002 33 5 1 A SIMPLE SESSION This chapter will describe a simple session with Gasgano and its most basic functionality If you are a first time user please take some time to read this part Start up procedures are described in Chapter 3 Loading files into Gasgano To load files into the application click on File gt Add Remove Files A window appears see Figure 9 The main panel of the window is empty when no directories or files are loaded E C Data Directories and Files SE Di Add File Remove Selected Files Cancel Figure 9 the Edit directory set window allows adding or removing directories files to from the Navigation Panel In this example no files are loaded Clicking on Add File starts another panel to browse in the file sys
49. ell defined and standardized units They can be used to specify a combination of detector instrument and telescope configurations and actions Templates have input parameters described by a template signature and produce results that can serve as input to other templates As an example an Acquisition Template takes target coordinates and produces through an interactive procedure the precise positions used later e g to place an object on a slit Visitor Mode VM observing operations mode where the astronomer is present at the telescope while their observing program is being executed VLT Control System VCS the software and hardware tools that are used to control directly VLT instruments telescopes and related hardware It enables and performs the acquisition of scientific and technical data Originally designed for the Very Large Telescope the VCS has also been installed at the La Silla New Technology Telescope NTT and 3 6m telescope 1 6 Abbreviation and Acronyms AT Acquisition Template DFS Data Flow System ESO European Southern Observatory GUI Graphical User Interface OB Observation Block RB Reduction Block RTD Real Time Display SM Service Mode UT VLT Unit Telescope VM Visitor Mode VLT Very Large Telescope VRB Virtual Reduction Block VCS VLT Control System 1 7 Conventions used in this document Features available for Gasgano running on ESO computers are framed The label ESO appears on the top left Ti
50. ents are the data reduction recipe used isaac_spec_obs_nodonslit the instrument Isaac the basename of the data products IS_SSCM_010608A_SK_s03t_216 the set of raw files that were reduced included in the firs set of curly braces the optional set of master calibration frames in the second set of curly braces The latter set may also contain special parameters used for the data reduction The structure of the reduction block is always the same and by means of the save to file button on the right hand side of the File Details Panel it is possible to write the virtual reduction block to a file EEO Once a virtual reduction block is saved to file it can be loaded and handled by the tool This for instance includes the possibility to request the RBS to execute it again or the possibility to edit it to modify it and then run it again The re execution of the RB cannot be triggered within Gasgano unless the RBS is running and the saved RB file is copied in the proper directory usually DFS_REDBLOCK 14 VLT MAN ESO 19200 XXXXXX 3 1 GASGANO INSTALLATION AND STARTUP System definition and requirements Software requirements supported platforms are Linux HP UX SunOS with JDK 1 1 7 or 1 1 8 For viewing fits file an image display software such as RTD or Saoimage is needed Hardware Requirements Gasgano requires at least 100 Mb of RAM depending upon data set size and usage so it
51. ers defaulted to S HOME gasgano keywords classification rules files rules for file filtering both defaulted to S HOME gasgano and user defined scripts defaulted S HOME gasgano scripts The user may change the default values by means of the Preference editor see section 4 1 Exiting Gasgano To exit Gasgano select File gt Quit on the Menu bar or type CTRL Q 16 VLT MAN ESO 19200 XXXXXX Configuring GASGANO Do it first 4 CONFIGURING GASGANO DO IT FIRST Gasgano was designed to be flexible and configurable to the greatest possible extent in order to accommodate a wide range of uses The tool comes with a standard configuration set which can be tailored to specific user requirements by means of the Preference Editor 6 Configuring the tool to suite your needs may take some time and effort especially if you want to define your set of classification rules for the files It is nevertheless highly recommended to do it before you plan to use the tool extensively A good configuration setup is likely to save you a lot of time and once it is done you will be able to re use it Another advantage of configuring the tool first is that you will become more familiar with its features 4 1 Running the Preference Editor To access the Preference Editor click on File gt Preferences The Preference Editor window will appear It is organised in registers Data Display and Printing Menus and Instruments
52. every time a new instrument becomes operational In addition instrument specific classification rules files are also distributed Example ISAAC_rules rul UVES_rules rul etc GASGANO User s Manual Last saved 01 02 2002 25 Configuring GASGANO Do it first The use of the default files is encouraged for all first time users More experienced users who wish to modify the existing rules and to create their own sets of rules are encouraged to read sections 4 2 2 and 4 2 3 If the user foresees working with files produced by only a single instrument it is advisable to configure Gasgano to use the appropriate instrument specific classification rules file instead of the generic one It is also advisable to edit the file and delete or update the classification rules according to user s specific data reduction needs The classification rules supplied with Gasgano are similar to those used by the ESO data reduction pipeline therefore tailored to an automatic data reduction strategy for large amounts of data Itis very important to spend some time configuring the classification rules A good reason to do so has to do with the tool s performance Assuming an average data packet of more than 500 files the time needed by the application to load them into memory and to classify them is significantly higher the more classification rules are stored This also applies whenever there is a need to reload the files or reclassify them f
53. f the tar file in the field File name at the bottom Click on the tar button The tool will freeze for the time needed to create the 40 VLT MAN ESO 19200 XXXXXX A simple session 5 10 tar file that is the time needed by the underlying UNIX workstation to perform the job This can be quite long if the number of files is large The syntax of the tar command carried on by Gasgano is tar cbf 20 lt list of parameters gt where lt list of parameters gt is the list of files selected in Gasgano Creating a keyword list file Keyword lists are ASCII files used by Gasgano to filter file headers or to print reports so that only the keywords present in the list are shown in the File Details Panel or printed To create a keyword list file from scratch with Gasgano click on the Menu Bar on Tools gt Edit Keyword Lists A new window called Keyword List Editor appears It contains two columns labelled Keyword Name and Report Label At the bottom there are the buttons Insert Row and Delete Row On the upper Menu Bar the File Menu contains the entries Open New Save As and Quit Add as many rows as needed with the Insert Row button In the first column enter the fits keyword as it appears in the file header without the HIERARCH ESO part in uppercase and in dot notation Figure 13 shows an example The Report Label column allows the user to specify the label used by the application when creating a report The syntax
54. forms of notation for data entry typically the dot notation is shown for display purposes 8 3 Meta Keywords Gasgano defines internally a number of keywords which are used within the application but are not read from a FITS file header These keywords are called Meta Keywords and are designed to never conflict with keywords read from a FITS file This is achieved by giving all Meta Keywords illegal names Meta Keywords are used to represent data which the user may want to use in Keywords expressions and reports but which is not contained within the current set of keywords read from a FITS header The Meta Keywords currently in use in Gasgano are the following CLASSIFICATION a keyword representing the FITS file Classification as defined by means of the classification rules The keyword is illegal since it is not hierarchical and it is over 8 characters in length FILE_PATH a keyword representing the full path of the data file on disk This keyword is illegal as it contains an underscore _ character PIPE_PRODUCT a keyword indicating if the file is a raw frame or pipeline product A raw frame will have a PIPE_PRODUCT value of F while a pipeline product file will have a PIPE_PRODUCT value of T This keyword is illegal as it contains an underscore _ character 8 4 Keyword Expressions 54 VLT MAN ESO 19200 XXXXXX The DATABASE view This secti
55. g The following keywords may be listed a All 8 character standard fits and ESO keywords Example RA DEC EXPTIME ORIGFILE HIERARCH ESO specific keywords without the HIERARCH ESO prefix Example INS FILT1 ID TPL START INS GRIS1 NAME Gasgano meta keywords which are defined by the tool only but are available for display purposes CLASSIFICATION FILE_PATH and PIPE_PRODUCT More on these keywords and their meaning in section 8 3 CLASSIFICATION is among the meta keywords the most useful to display it represents the classification of a raw science calibration file done by the tool according to the classification rules which are fully configurable by the user More on classification rules and how to configure them in section 4 2 20 VLT MAN ESO 19200 XXXXXX Configuring GASGANO Do it first Data Display amp Printing Menus and Instruments ome Filesystem Displayed Keywords Printer Name ppblaS1 ORIGFILE 3 q DET DIT z Printer orientation portrait v DET NDIT Printer Font Choose new font INS MODE INS FILT1 1D INS GRAT WLEN Tfits Viewer tableview TPLEXPNO i TPL NEXP Font Test t Fits Viewer load_rtd Cube Viewer cubeview Insert Row Delete Row truncate filenames convert RA DEC sort by MJD le OK Cancel Figure 4 The Display amp Prin
56. have loaded a large number of files since the refresh freezes the application for an amount of time which is roughly proportional to the number of files loaded GASGANO User s Manual Last saved 01 02 2002 19 Configuring GASGANO Do it first The Verbose Level option is used for debugging purposes only and specifies which debug level should be monitored while the application is running This option should always be set to No Verbose which is the default value For more information about the meaning of the other verbose levels refer to chapter 10 of this manual Whenever a verbose level is activated diagnostic messages are written to stdout When troubleshooting your USG contact may ask you to activate one of the verbose levels and report these messages It is recommended to start Gasgano with gasgano gt my_log_file 2 gt amp 1 amp if you want to reproduce an error This command saves all messages from stdout and stderr in the file my_log_file which can be used for troubleshooting Configuring the Display amp Printing register The Display amp Printing register shown in Figure 4 contains settings for the Navigation Panel in the Main Screen settings for the printer options and for configuring the file viewers The configurable items in this register are 1 Filesystem Display Keywords editable list keywords in this list are displayed by the tool in the Navigation Panel The display follows the list orderin
57. hted in light blue Single selection is done by single clicking on the object a file a directory a folder Multiple selection is possible in two ways After selecting the first file via a single click the user can 1 press the Shift key while mouse clicking on another file this selects a block of contiguous files 2 press the Ctrl key while mouse clicking on another file this adds individual files to the selected list Other options for file selection include 1 Click on any node in the tree with the right mouse button this expands the node and the sub nodes below it and selects all the files within 2 Click on any already expanded node with the right mouse button this selects all files within that node Press the Ctrl key while right mouse clicking on a node will allow multiple selections of nodes In all cases if files are selected the action of clicking will deselect the file s In Section 8 1 Table 2 summarises all mouse click options GASGANO User s Manual Last saved 01 02 2002 37 A simple session Right clicking on the uppermost folder icon in the Navigation Panel e g in Figure 2 the one with the Displaying 98 files Unfiltered folder line selects all the files loaded by the application To deselect them either left click_on a single file or use the Expand Collapse button on the Toolbar 5 4 Filtering files Gasgano offers the possibility to filter files loaded in the Navigation Panel on
58. ile selected in the Navigation Panel This panel can be used to filter the header using a user defined list of keywords and to search for strings in the header itself Depending on the type of file selected the File Details Panel displays different information the header for fits and tfits file the content for ASCII files including special ASCII files like the reduction blocks GASGANO User s Manual Last saved 01 02 2002 11 Overview Find entry CLASSIFICATION RA DEC TPL NEXP TPL EXPNO EI Displaying 0 files grouped by directory Unfiltered m aj Number of files currently selected MENU BAR TOOL BAR NAVIGATION PANEL Pen panel Raw Files Master Calib Files Reduction Block Files Product Files No associated reduction block files FILE ASSOCIATION PANEL FILE DETAILS PANEL Figure 1 Gasgano s main panel The three sections are from top to bottom the Navigation Panel the Association Panel the File Detail panel Sections are separated by sliding bars which can be moved up or down with click and drag or can be collapsed using the little triangular icon on their right side The Menu bar contains File Selected Files Tools and Help Gasgano s main use is that of a file browser It can be used to browse through fits tfits and ASCII files in a files system It is optimised to work with ESO DES standard files i e files created with one
59. in the view opens it or in other words displays its content 12 VLT MAN ESO 19200 XXXXXX Overview Raw files are displayed in blue reduced in red text files in grey The icons for each file differ according to the file type For each file the values for some selected keywords are displayed In this example CLASSIFICATION a Gasgano proprietary keyword SPECTRA_COMBINED in the example DET DIT 60 0000 DET NDIT 1 INS MODE SWS1 INS FILT1 ID SK and INS GRAT WLEN 2 1 are displayed T The file 1S_SSCM_010608A_SK_s03t_216_105201 fits is selected as can be seen by the light blue highlight band On the upper right corner of the window the number 1 gives the total number of selected files Since the selected file is a pipeline product an ISAAC short wavelength science combined spectrum the Association Panel shows its properties and associated files In Figure 2 the Master Calib Files register is displayed Two frames with their path in the file system are listed These frames are the master calibration frames used during the data reduction of the science spectrum The IS_SSAM file is the arc frame and the IS_ISSFM file the spectroscopic flat Both files are loaded in the data set Clicking on one of these files in the Association Panel will move the selection in the Navigation Panel to highlight it File Selected files Tools Help Ksi 3 ray Default grouping xj
60. ined by the keyword TPL START which is set to the same values for all frames taken within the same run of an observing template All frames share the Observations Block OBS ID 36 VLT MAN ESO 19200 XXXXXX A simple session for a defined run OBS PROG ID and are located in the same directory in the file system Any keyword can be used to define the extra layer provided it is present in all the headers If a file does not contain the selected keyword it will be placed in the same OBS PROG ID and OBS ID folders at the same level in the tree as the additional layer The application lists the keyword used for the optional grouping and its value on the folder line in the Navigation Panel in the figure the files with TPL START 2001 04 26T11 40 41 are expanded 5 2 4 Resizing the fields All fields in the Navigation Panel can be resized to accommodate the length of the keywords values The fields names are displayed in a bar just below the main Toolbar in the order specified in the Preferences Display and Printing register When the mouse pointer is on the separation line between two fields it changes shape Clicking the mouse left button allows grabbing the separation line and resizing the field to the preferred length 5 3 Selecting Files Any operation on file s such as viewing the header content displaying a frame with a viewer copying moving creating reports etc requires a selection Selected files appear highlig
61. k to it must be put in either the common script directory or in one of the instrument specific directories In all the following examples of scripts substitute mypath with the appropriate path to the executable in your file system For those examples which use the eclipse library see references 5 Examples 1 Parameters passed to an executable when files are selected and passed to an executable Gasgano may sends three different outputs Consider the script that saves the list of parameters sent by Gasgano to the file tmp output txt bin sh Example shell script to be used with Gasgano Print output save to output txt the list of parameters sent to an executable echo gt tmp output txt Assume that the following files are selected in the Navigation Panel ISAAC 2001 06 08T22 28 22 108 fits ISAAC 2001 06 08T22 28 47 361 fits ISAAC 2001 06 08T22 29 12 282 fits ISAAC 2001 06 08T22 29 38 666 fits ISAAC 2001 06 08T22 30 03 865 fits ISAAC 2001 06 08T22 30 28 985 fits ISAAC 2001 06 08T22 30 54 343 fits 1 In the default case files are passed as a list of names with full path separated by a space diska test ISAAC 2001 06 08T22 28 22 108 fits diska test ISAAC 2001 06 08T22 28 47 361 fits diska test ISAAC 2001 06 08T22 29 12 282 fits diska test ISAAC 2001 06 08T22 29 38 666 fits diska test ISAAC 2001 06 08T22 30 03 865 fits diska test ISAAC 2001 06 08T22 30 28 985 fits diska test ISAAC 20
62. l_bias AND TPL ID FORS1_img_cal_bias RA gt 265 0 RA lt 266 0 RA gt 265 0 AND RA lt 266 0 RA gt 265 0 RA lt 266 0 12 3 gt ten Note that this expression will not evaluate RHS is a Float LHS is a String TPLID Like FORS RA gt 265 0 AND RA lt 266 0 AND TPL ID Like FORS OR 12 3 gt ten Figure 17 Expression Tree Examples GASGANO User s Manual Last saved 01 02 2002 57 Appendix A gasganorc settings 9 1 APPENDIX A gasganorc SETTINGS Printout of gasganorc 19 06 2001 Gasgano Properties Editor CLASSRULE_FILE rules rul COMPONENT_FONT Dialog 14 CUBE_ DATA_FILE DBOBS_INS DBOBS T SOFI EMMI TO_VIEWER S DBOBS_DISPLAY_COLUMNS CLASSIFICATION DBOBS_DISPLAY_COLUMNS_SIZE 0 0 0 0 0 All TRUMENTS ISAAC FORS1 FORS2 UVES VIMOS CONICA EFOSC CES SUSI WFI VINCI MIDI RUMEN IOD 66 DBOBS_PER DBOBS_RE ID R DBOBS_SERVER R DB_SERVER DBOBS_SERVE DBOBS_USERID URL URL DB_USER_N M DISPLAY_COL DISPLAY_COLUMNS CLASSIFICATION TPL ID ORIGFILE TPL UMNS_SIZE 0 0 0 0 0 FILTER_FI LE filter FITS_TO_V FRAM Gl IEWER BOUNDS 8 100 er EN RA DEC TPL EXPNO TPL
63. le a window with a warning will pop up at start up the Classification Rule Builder window starts empty To create a new rule follow the step by step sequence 1 Fill in the Instrument field E g ISAAC 2 Fill in the Classification field E g SCIENCE_imaging 3 Click on the rule editor panel on the KEYWORD value string appear Either a Click on the Edit button and edit the rule double click of the string is also possible or b Click on the Add Node button Case a is to edit a single constraint rule while option b adds a node with two sub expressions To edit and modify the nodes and or the sub expressions proceed as told in the previous section 4 Click on the Add Rule button Repeat steps 1 4 till all the rules have been added 4 2 4 Closing the Classification Rule Builder window Once all the rules have been modified or created click on the Dismiss button which will automatically save all changes in the rule file which is the one is specified in the Preference Data register Once the window has been closed the changes take effect only if a reclassify is forced To do so click on File Reclassify in the Menu bar 4 3 The gasganorc file The gasganorc file is created in the HOME directory the first time the tool is started The first version of this file contains default settings which the user can modify as explained in the previous sections Every time the set up of th
64. lter to have the browsing window opening on the default directory for keyword lists Select the file and click on Load Click on the toggle button Filter so that it is blackened If a file in the Navigation Panel is selected only the header keywords present in the keyword list file will then be displayed To remove the filter deselect the toggle button Filter To load another keyword list file repeat from the beginning When the fits header filtering is on the Find in header works only on the currently displayed keywords Creating a report A report is an ASCII file that displays file header keywords for a set of fits and or tfits files in a tabular form To create a report a keyword list file is needed If none is available create it as explained in section 5 10 Then 1 Select fits or tfits files in the Navigation Panel as specified in section 5 3 2 Click on the Report button on the main Toolbar the second icon button from left or click on Selected files gt Report 42 VLT MAN ESO 19200 XXXXXX A simple session 3 The Load Keyword list window appears At first use it is empty while for subsequent uses the last loaded keyword list is kept in memory 4 If it is empty click on the Load Keyword List button at the bottom the browse window opens in the default directories for keyword list files Browse and select a file 5 Modify the loaded file if needed using the Insert Row and Delete Row buttons To add
65. m iew Reserved for future use DBOBS_INSTRUMENT he instrument selected for the database query in the database iew DBOBS_INSTRUMENTS he list of all possible instruments hich can be used in the database iew 60 VLT MAN ESO 19200 XXXXXX Appendix A gasganorc settings Field in preference editor Entry in resource file User s guide gasganorc DBOBS_DISPLAY_COLUMNS_ The size in points of the columns of SIZE he Navigation Panel Database iew Reserved for future use DBOBS_PERIOD he observing period selected for he query in the database view GASGANO User s Manual Last saved 01 02 2002 61 Appendix B Verbose levels I 0 APPENDIX B VERBOSE LEVELS The verbose level can be set in the Data register of Preferences Menu see section 4 1 1 The verbose facility is to be used for debugging purposes only upon request from ESO Support personnel and is in no way meant to be complete or understandable for the users The default value for this option should be set to No Verbose during normal use of the tool The possible values and their description are DataModelChange changes like addition or removal of OBComponents andVRB to the application memory are displayed DataModelEvent notification to the Navigation Panel tree of addition removal of components ExternalCommands not used BaseName verboses information on how the basename for an OBComponent isdetermined Timing activates collection of
66. on through the file system is opened a Select the desired directory or file and accept by clicking on the Add File button a more detailed description of the Add File dialog box can be found in section 5 1 Q To remove a directory from the loaded list select it with a single mouse click and then click on the Remove Selected Files button When removing items from the list multiple selections CTRL left click are possible Data Directories and Files fraidS1_isaac isaac raw gasgano_swap fraid51_isaac isaac raw gasgano_swap test fraidS1_isaac isaac raw gasgano_swap ssal test Add File Remove Selected Files Filesystem specifications please use semicolon as separates Keyword List directory kw Scripts directory gas scripts Filter Rule file filter rul Classification Rule file isaac gasgano ISAAC_rules rul Textfile Extensions lascii paf fs shorten data files paths for commands Automatic Filesystem Refresh No update Verbose Level No Verbose s Figure 3 The Data register in the Preferences Menu Q Inthe middle section of the register the Filesystem specifications allow the user to define a the directory where to store user defined keyword lists to be used for example to create printable reports or to filter the fits header displayed in the File Detail panel in the main screen The default value is S HOME gasgano keywo
67. on discusses the use of keyword expressions in Gasgano Keyword expressions are used to classify FITS data files and filter the data file set Keyword expressions evaluate to a boolean value They are a combination of Operands and Operators Operands have three different types character strings numbers and keywords Keywords are represented as the names of the keyword and return either a Float or a String value Strings are represented as characters enclosed in double quotes e g SKY A String can not return a Float value Floats are numeric values 12 0 1 45 67 etc Floats can not return a String value Supported Operators are listed in Table 3 LHS Left Hand Side RHS Right Hand Side GASGANO User s Manual Last saved 01 02 2002 55 Reference guide 8 5 Table 3 Keyword expression operators AND Boolean operator which evaluates to true if and only if all of its two or more sub expressions evaluate to true Boolean operator that evaluates to true if one of its two o more sub expressions evaluates to true ee to true if the LHS een the RHS a Evaluates to false if the LHS equals the RHS Ba Evaluates to true ifthe LHS is greater than the RHS Evaluates to true ifthe LHS is greater or equal to the RHS Evaluates to true ifthe LHS is less than the RHS lt Evaluates to true if the LHS is less than or equal to the RHS Like Like performs a string comparison where the RHS must be
68. ope This document is the user s manual for the Gasgano ESO Data Flow System File Organiser in short Gasgano This manual describes Gasgano Version 1 5 the first public release of the tool The tool was distributed to internal ESO users for the first time at the end of 1999 This manual does not contain an installation guide Installation instructions for home users are maintained online on the Gasgano web pages http www eso org gasgano Installation instruction for ESO observatories on site installation instructions can be obtained from the DMD System Engineering Group seg eso org Location of the latest version of this manual The latest version of this manual will be available from the official Gasgano web site http www eso org gasgano Intended Audience This manual is intended for Gasgano users Users can be either internal ESO users or astronomers of the ESO community Gasgano shows different features depending on the software environment in which it runs Features available to internal ESO users may be masked and therefore invisible for external users Throughout the document these features are described in separate sections which are marked as ESO in a framed text This is not a technical manual For technical details refer to the Gasgano DFS Organiser Design Document VLT PRO 19000 1930 or contact the ESO System Engineering Group seg eso org Audience pre requisites GASGANO User s Manual
69. or instance if you change the columns displayed in the Navigation Panel in the Main Screen Selecting just the rules you require speeds up the classification of files The classification rules file is not in ASCII format and therefore can be edited from within the tool only by means of the classification rules editor To access the file click on the Menu Bar Tools gt Classification rules The Classification Rule Builder window appears as shown in Figure 7 The window is divided into two sections the list of rules in the upper part and the editor panel in the lower part At the bottom a set of buttons allows maintenance of the list of rules A rule selected in the upper panel is displayed in the lower panel where it can be edited For each rule an instrument and a classification label must be specified The instrument label tells the tool to apply a rule for files whose keyword INSTRUME has the same value the classification appears in the Navigation Panel if the CLASSIFICATION keyword is on the list of keywords to be displayed Preferences Panel Display options register The upper panel consists of a table with three columns The Instrument and classification column display the content of the above mentioned labels The rule column displays the classification criteria The lower panel allows display creation and editing of classification rules The rules are graphically rendered in a sort of RPN Reverse Polish Notation In short R
70. ps are highlighted by the candle bullet we chose a candle because our tips are not that bright and you may get burnt GASGANO User s Manual Last saved 01 02 2002 7 Welcome to GASGANO 1 8 Examples and default values are typed using Courier fonts Gasgano graphical user interface related items are typed in bold Keystrokes combinations are typed in bold italic How to get help or report problems with Gasgano or this manual In all of the following situations e Gasgano bug reports e Suggestion for improvements to this manual e Technical assistance contact the ESO User Support Group usg help eso org VLT MAN ESO 19200 XXXXXX OVERVIEW Gasgano is a GUI software tool for managing and viewing data files produced and handled by VLT Control System VCS and the Data Flow System DFS Specifically Gasgano scans a specified set of directories and organises the data in a manner familiar to its user showing key information about the files and grouping the data primarily according to its Run ID and Observation Block ID Once the data is presented to the user it is available for viewing archiving and reporting Single files or groups of files can be selected by means of a single mouse click and sent as input to external scripts or software Additional sort and search functions allow the user to refine his her query or locate specific information ESO In addition to this Gasgano can be used as a d
71. r selected row onto Add Insert Row button Ctrl Left click Navigation panel on files Multiple selection of non contiguous files Shift Left Navigation panel on files Multiple selection of contiguous click files selection first file must be already selected Ctrl Right Navigation panel on Multiple selection of content of nodes folder icons folder GASGANO User s Manual Last saved 01 02 2002 53 Reference guide click lines non contiguous folders nodes Shift Right Navigation panel on Multiple selection of content of click nodes folder icons folder contiguous folders nodes lines Middle mouse Navigation panel on Save the content of the folder line button nodes folder icons folder into an internal clipboard The lines content of the clipboard can be then used via the Script Board It emits a beep 8 2 Keywords Gasgano uses keywords for expressions classification display and report generation There are not keyword dictionaries or defined keyword sets in Gasgano and entries of non existent or bad keyword names will not be detected For example a FITS file report requiring the PIPPo keyword to be printed will not produce an error The column in the resulting report will be left blank ESO Hierarchical keywords can be expressed in both full e g HIERARCH ESO TEL AIRM START and dot e g TEL AIRM START notation While Gasgano supports both
72. rds b the scripts directory where to store user defined scripts or executables external command see chapter 6 The default value is set to HOME gasgano scripts under the account s HOME directory 18 VLT MAN ESO 19200 XXXXXX Configuring GASGANO Do it first c the name of the file which contains the rules to filter the files in the Navigation Panel the default file is filter rul located into the account s HOME gasgano directory d the name of the file that contains the classification rules for the raw files It is defaulted to HOME gasgano rules rul e the recognised text files extensions it is defaulted to ascii paf longlog but as many extensions as desired can be added Entries should be separated with a semicolon Example in the default case the tool recognises pippo ascii as a simple text file When the file is loaded if selected its content is displayed in the File Detail panel The file pippo txt will not be recognised and therefore not loaded ignored by the tool When this list is modified a manual refresh of the data set must be forced Click on File gt Refresh in the Menu bar Moreover if an extension is deleted from the list the change takes effect the next time the tool is started or in other words the files with this extension are not automatically unloaded by the tool As already mentioned Gasgano recognises file types by their file extension For fit
73. s each of which specify an independent combination of telescope instrument and observing operations mode i e Service Mode or Visitor Mode Observing Program ID see Run ID Observation a coordinated sequence of telescope instrument and detector actions that results in a scientific or technical dataset Observation Blocks OB the smallest observational unit within the Data Flow System An Observation Block contains a sequence of high level operations called templates that need to be performed sequentially and without interruption in order to ensure the scientific usefulness of an observation Observation Blocks may contain only one target acquisition Observation Blocks may contain scheduling and collect all status information of operations as they pass through the Data Flow System from definition execution and reduction Observation Blocks used in both Visitor and Service Mode to acquire data They are used to acquire scientific calibration and technical data GASGANO User s Manual Last saved 01 02 2002 5 Welcome to GASGANO Observation Block ID the unique identifier of an Observation Block It is stored in the keyword HIERARCH ESO OBS ID Valid OB ID examples 19368 200083938 Pipeline a set of software tools part of the DFS which implements data reduction Raw frames are classified grouped by types and sent to data reduction recipes or reduction algorithms Recipes produce pipeline products Raw Frame
74. s advisable to run it on machines with not less than 512MB RAM If visualised on a remote X11 terminal make sure that at least 48 MBs of memory is available Processor speed becomes an issue only when accessing large numbers of compressed fits files ESO Gasgano is a Java based application shipped with ESO s DMD Data Flow System software It is intended for use on DFS workstations and is targeted for these Unix platforms This document assumes Gasgano is running in such an environment whenever it describes ESO features System Settings since Gasgano is an X application prior to launching the DISPLAY environment variable must be correctly set Gasgano will activate a heartbeat functionality for the processes Data Organiser and Reduction Block Scheduler if the environment variables DFS_PRODUCT and DHS_DATA are defined that is a DFS pipeline environment is in place This is used to monitor the Data Reduction Pipeline activities 3 2 Downloading Gasgano Gasgano can be downloaded from the dedicated Web pages located at http www eso org gasgano Installation instructions are also posted on this web page Contact the User Support Group usg help eso org if you need assistance ESO Gasgano is supported by the Software Engineering Group Please contact SEG regarding installation upgrades etc seg eso org 3 3 Running Gasgano GASGANO User s Manual Last saved 01 02 2002 15
75. s files these extensions are fits 2 D frame and tfits table It is not possible to configure the file extensions for fits or tfits files Therefore the fits file pippo rta will not be recognised by the tool The user should take care or renaming files to the default extensions Q The bottom section deals with miscellaneous settings a The shorten data files paths for commands button specifies whether the application should try to determine a common path for all data files supplied to an external command and execute a cd to that path prior to executing the external command itself This can be useful to overcome shell limitations in the maximum amount of characters permitted on the command line when calling an external application or scripts If the user selects a set of files with more than one path the file names are not shortened b The Automatic Filesystem Refresh sets the frequency for a refresh procedure the tool scans the loaded directories and verifies whether a file has been modified and therefore its header needs to be read in again or whether files have been added removed from a directory in the current data set The possible settings are No update default 1 2 5 30 minutes This option is useful when you are running data reduction procedures that create new files in the loaded directories or when you are moving files from the command line into from loaded directories This option should be turned off when you
76. s selected Gasgano checks if all files share the same INSTRUME keyword If this is the case the Script Board looks into an instrument specific directory specified as a subdirectory of the script directory named after the INSTRUME keyword itself A typical example situation looks as follows lt gasgano script dir gt files common to all instruments if any lt gasgano script dir gt ISAAC files for isaac lt gasgano script dir gt FORS1 files for forsl lt gasgano script dir gt EMMI 1 57 f files for EMMI release 1 57 where lt gasgano script dir gt is the common script directory set in the Preferences If the selected files do not share a common INSTRUME keyword Gasgano shows the files in the lt gasgano script dir gt directory The Override button on the top left corner of the Script Board overrides the instrument specific settings and repositions the view of the Script Board in the common script directory 6 3 Passing a directory path to an executable It is possible to pass the path of a directory loaded into the application on the file system to an executable To do this 1 Select the Group by directory view on the Tool bar In the Navigation Panel a collapsed list of folders with the directories names paths should be visible 2 Click on the desired directory with the middle button of the mouse A beep sound should be heard This way Gasgano has saved into an internal clipboard the directory n
77. sification Rules Builder Panel Some of the rules for the ISAAC instrument are displayed in the upper panel The lower panel shows the classification rule for files of the type JITTER_OBJ This rules is explained in more detail in the following text 2 Double condition rule In this case a double condition on one keyword or on two keywords is requred to classify a file AND F TPL D ISAACLW_IMG_CAL_DARKS DET MODE NAME UncorrHighBias which classifies an ISAAC file as LW_Uncorrelated_Dark whenever both conditions are satisfied Note that AND is referred to as a Node and TPL ID ISAACLW_IMG_CAL_DARKS is called a Sub Expression FR GFILE like dumpRtd GASGANO User s Manual Last saved 01 02 2002 27 Configuring GASGANO Do it first ORIGFILE like _acq_Image which classifies a file as Acquisition image whether its ORIGFILE Original filename keyword contains the string dumpRtd or the string x_acq Image 3 Triple multiple condition rule The simplest example for this rule is to check if three or more conditions are all meet or one of three or more conditions condition is met AND DPR CATG CALIB u CHIPS 1 0 DPR TYPE DARK which classifies a file a UVES files as a DARK_BLUE OR exe lt like 60 A 9023 EXPTIME lt 60 NS FILT1 ID
78. st To change the font type size and characteristics click on the Choose new font button The viewers setup fields located below the printer setup fields allow specifying the UNIX command to launch file viewers Three different viewers are possibly configurable a Tfits Viewer launched by the application whenever a single tfits file is selected b Fits Viewer launched by the application whenever a single fits file is selected c Cube Viewer launched by the application whenever more than one fits file is selected It is responsibility of the user to define calls to external viewers No viewers are shipped with Gasgano and the three fields are empty by default It is possible to specify a viewer in two ways 1 type the name of the application as you would from a terminal command line The path to the application you plan to use should be in the PATH Example rtd Note however that no amp sign is allowed in the field and that in the case of the example the application will freeze Gasgano In order to be able to load one image after the other clicking on the file name in the application panel it s recommended using method 2 2 You call an external shell script which in turn calls another application The truncate filenames toggle on off button allows the user to specify whether the filenames are displayed with their complete path or not in the Navigation Panel view Default is on The Convert RA DEC toggle but
79. status from OB_STATUS_FROM_DB_REQU Trueffalse ESO whether the database IRED Observation Block status is displayed for each Observation OB_status server_URL DB_SERVER_URL The fully qualified hostname and port for the database server containing the obrep2 database OB_status username DB_USER_NAME The userid to log into the abovementioned database OB statusMapping OBSTATUS_MAPPING A simple mapping between one character return codes and human readable descriptions for the OB status Register Display amp Printing Filesystem_Displayed_Keywords DISPLAY_COLUMNS List of semicolon separated keywords displayed in the navigation panel for filesystems a IE Printer_orientation PRINT_ORIENTATION L P Landscape or Portrait Printefont PRINT_FONT The font used for printing GASGANO User s Manual Last saved 01 02 2002 59 Appendix A gasganorc settings isualise tfits files isualise fits files isualise a set if fits files runcate_filenames SHORT_FILENAME True false whether the filename in he navigation panel should be specified with its complete path For the filesystem only eee ieee Whether RA and DEC keywords are visualized in sexagesimal notation from the original decimal Sort by MJD MJD_SORTING Whether fits and tfits files in the navigation panel are sorted lacording to they MJD or according by name Database_Displayed_keywords DBOBS_DISPLAY_COLUMNS List of semicolon separated keywords displayed in the navig
80. t ascii done Executing a data reduction recipe this shell script passes a list of frames to the eclipse recipe that creates imaging flat fields It should be saved in the directory lt gasgano script dir gt ISAAC In this example the file is called twflat The typical input is a list of files selected in the Navigation Panel mypath ISAAC 2001 07 05T22 18 35 944 fits mypath ISAAC 2001 07 05T22 18 52 351 fits mypath ISAAC 2001 07 05T22 19 08 761 fits mypath ISAAC 2001 07 05T22 19 25 173 fits mypath ISAAC 2001 07 05T22 19 41 581 fits mypath ISAAC 2001 07 05T22 19 57 992 fits mypath ISAAC 2001 07 05T22 20 12 537 fits mypath ISAAC 2001 07 05T22 20 28 947 fits mypath ISAAC 2001 07 05T22 20 45 355 fits mypath ISAAC 2001 07 05T22 21 01 763 fits bin sh Example shell script to be used with Gasgano requires the following eclipse routines isaacp dfits fitsort is_twflat twflat starts the eclipse is_twflat recipe gt move to the working directory GAS_TMP_DIR mypath gasgano cd S GAS_TMP_DIR gt Define a unique name for files name basename 1 fits gt Clean old stuff if s tmp name ascii then rm tmp name ascii 48 VLT MAN ESO 19200 XXXXXX An advanced session gt Format input for eclipse routine list echo f r 1 arn Slaset do
81. t directories and Files for loading into the application To select a directory file single click on it and then click on the Add File button Multiple selections when adding files are NOT possible Once files are loaded by the tool the Navigation Panel the File Association Panel and the File Details Panel will look like shown in Figure 2 5 2 Changing the view The view in the Navigation Panel can be changed in various ways according to the user s preferences or needs 5 2 1 Grouping files On the Toolbar of the Navigation Panel right of the icon buttons there is a selector menu combo box which by default displays the Default Grouping field The other available options are Group by Directory and Group by Telescope The default setting leaves the tree unchanged and as described in section 2 2 displays files grouped by their OBS PROG ID the OBS ID and the optional user s defined keywords The Group by Directory option adds an extra layer on top of the default view and groups file by their location in the file system The Complete absolute path of each group of files in the same directory is displayed in the panel as shown in Figure 11 GASGANO User s Manual Last saved 01 02 2002 35 A simple session BA Group by Directory v File E Displaying 372 files grouped by directory Unfiltered EI raid51_isaac isaac raw 010425 id 60 A 9021 A ISAAC c 200004904 Calibration no status available i TPL START
82. tem To add directories and files click on the Add File button A new window appears as shown in Figure 10 The first time the panel is opened the content of the HOME directory is shown Subsequently the application will remember the last selected directory It is possible to navigate through the file system either double clicking on a folder to change directory or using the first button after the combo box on the upper toolbar to move up one level To select a directory to load its name should appear in the field File Name at the bottom single click on its name and then press the Add File button Multiple selections are NOT possible when adding directories It is also possible to select a single file and add it the same way A simple session Loading a directory will automatically load all its subdirectories If some of them are not needed they have to be selected in the Edit directory set panel Figure 9 and removed by clicking on the Remove Selected Files button When removing directories or files from the list of loaded ones multiple selection is possible To learn how to do multiple selection go to section 5 2 E I Look in raw OTOBT 4010620 4010621 cJ 010622 c 010623 C4 010624 c 010627 c 010628 CSao1i9ne70 File name 10624 Add File EHRSIOETADEN All Files 9 v Cancel Figure 10 The Add File Panel allows browsing in the file system to selec
83. the Tools menu or typing Ctrl s when the mouse pointer is on the main Gasgano s window To execute one command one has to double click on it Figure 15 shows the Script Board Gasgano Script Directory Board Override Dismiss Double click to execute cdbingest check_dpeash clean_directory convert_tfits sh lerea_list_of_frames db_change sh digestiv sh dpc_list dpe_nighttxt edit_ascii make_cube move_products pack_reduced sh pack_reduced_cali prepare_dpc_listsh prepare_gc_data sh prepare_gc_data_o show_tfits lsubtract_2_frames uves_plot sh view_cube sh confirm Supply classification Run in background Figure 15 The Script board An advanced session The confirm option will trigger a pop up window prior to running the specified executable which request an additional confirmation from the user On the Script Board the Supply classification option will pass the CLASSIFICATION Meta keyword along with each file name The sequence passed to the script is of the kind Filenamel CLASSIFICATION1 Filename2 CLASSIFICATION2 The Run in background option is disabled in the present version of Gasgano The Script Board automatically looks for the executables in a directory the common script directory This directory cannot be a link to another directory specified using the Preferences Editor in the Data register When the Script Board is open and a data set one or more files i
84. ting register in the Preferences Menu The fields are filled in with possible entries These entries are dependent on the system settings and user preferences To enter a keyword type its name inside a field The buttons Insert Row and Delete Row allow the user to add more rows a scroll bar appears on the left side when there are more rows than those which fit in the field or to delete selected row no multiple selection is available The keyword names are case sensitive must be uppercase and the tool will mark the field as INVALID whenever this rule is not respected There are no syntax or validity checks therefore if a wrong keyword name is typed in no error message is displayed but there will be an empty column in the Navigation Panel The order of the keywords in the list is the order of display of the column in the Navigation Panel To add a keyword above an existing one in the list right click on the Insert Row button 2 The printer set up fields situated on the right half side of the register include a Printer Name with no default value Specify in this field the Unix name of your printer e g in Figure 4 ppbla51 b Printer orientation defaulted to portrait It can be set to Landscape GASGANO User s Manual Last saved 01 02 2002 21 Configuring GASGANO Do it first 3 4 5 6 c Printer Font defaulted to Monospaced 8pts The chosen font can be seen below the field Font Te
85. ton allows the user to specify whether the entries for right ascension RA and declination DEC if present in the Displayed Keywords list should be displayed in sexagesimal or in decimal notation Default value is on sexagesimal The Sort by MJD toggle button forces the application to display files sorted by the content of the keyword mgp oss This option is useful if the files have been renamed following a user defined code which would sort them in a different order than that of the UT time of observation like is the case of the VLT Archive standard naming convention Default value is off ESO 7 The Database Displayed Keywords editable list keywords in this list are displayed by the tool in the Navigation Panel of the Database view What written under 1 is valid in this case too Configuring the Menus and Instruments register The Menus and Instruments register shown in Figure 5 allows configuration of the virtual view in the Navigation Panel by adding an instrument specific criteria to group files under common registers The default virtual view shows the loaded files organised in a virtual directory tree organised in run ID OBS PROG ID keyword and 22 VLT MAN ESO 19200 XXXXXX Configuring GASGANO Do it first OB ID oBs D keyword intermediate containers The user might wish to group files sharing some common properties i e the same value for a specific fits keyword The Men
86. trument label The FORS_rules rul contains rules for both instruments It is possible to append a classification rule files to another one Click the Menu File gt Append other rule file in the Classification Rule Builder The browse window opens Browse and select the file click on Append Suppose you want to modify the following rule AND TPL ID TSAACLW_IMG_CAL DARKS DET MODE NAME UncorrHighBias into OR F TPL ID like Jitter TPL ID notlike Generic 1 To edit the node AND double click on it alternatively single click and then click on the leftmost button EDIT A window with a toggle button which allows to select between the option AND OR Select OR Confirm with OK 2 Double click on the first term of the logical expression A window appears see Figure 8 On the top part there are two editable fields and in between them a toggle button The first field contains the keyword as seen on the header without the HIERARCH ESO part for ESO standard fits keywords Type in it TPL ID The syntax for keywords is case sensitive and requires dots in between strings 3 Select with the toggle button the filed like 4 Type in in the leftmost field Jitter 5 Confirm with OK 6 Repeat steps 2 5 to edit the second sub expression 30 VLT MAN ESO 19200 XXXXXX Configuring GASGANO Do it first Whenever a syntactically wrong value is
87. us and Instruments register contains an editable table which contains two columns the Instrument column lists all available instruments and the criteria column both are editable The Instrument column should contain the name of the instrument as specified by the INSTRUME keyword in the header The user may want to specify for the criteria a header keyword following the rules already explained in Subsection 2 2 Examples TPL START OCS CON QUAD For many instruments and especially ISAAC the use of TPL START is particularly useful whenever an OB contains several templates TPL START is identical for all files belonging to the same template instance and it is set to the UT starting time of its execution For VIMOS it may be convenient to group the files by the different detectors making use of the keyword ocs con QuapD For FORS1 and FORS2 in case of observation with many different masks grouping by means of MASK 1D might prove useful If the OBS ID is the smallest meaningful container for your data set and you want to group your files according to another keyword but on a higher level of grouping it is preferable to make use of the file filtering options described in section 5 4 Preferences Editor Data Display amp Printing Menus and Instruments instrument specific intermediate grouping filesystem only instrument criteria ISAAC TPLSTART FORS1 ae FORS2 UVES VIMOS CONICA EFOSC CES SUSI SOFI EMMI WEI
88. used at several ESO facilities not just the VLT Acquisition Template AT an Observation Block component An Acquisition Template is used to specify how a target is acquired by the telescope It may also specify any preliminary instrument configuration steps e g set rotator to specific angle It can contain parameters for interactive as well as automatic acquisitions This template may define a different instrument detector configuration from the templates within the Observation Description Each science Observation Block contains at most one Acquisition Template Calibration Observation Blocks Observation Blocks used to acquire calibration data 4 VLT MAN ESO 19200 XXXXXX Welcome to GASGANO Data Flow System DFS a system that can handle the flow of data and information within certain ESO facilities in particular the VLT It includes subsystems for proposal handling observation handling science and engineering data archiving science data pipeline processing and handling and data quality control 2 The DFS is being developed by the ESO Data Management and Operations Division DMD Data Organizer DO software part of the DFS responsible for the preparation of the actual pipeline reduction It handles in a dedicated database the so called Observation Summary Table all the information describing the data products needed for the pipeline raw frames physical data and derived data extracted from the archive This in
89. view are noticeable Clicking through the various layers of the tree will expand collapse it It is possible to expand or collapse the entire tree at once by means of the Expand Collapse toggle button on the Toolbar The Expand Collapse is a toggle button in the sense that when the tree is collapsed such as after a data set is loaded the button displays Expand When it is expanded it displays Collapse Sometimes the button shows the wrong value It may be set to Expand even if the tree is partially expanded or vice versa This is because while the user has the option to click on one or more folders to expand them the tool and the Expand Collapse button has got no memory of this action Therefore it does not change the status value of the button Clicking twice on it forces a reset 5 2 3 Introducing an extra level in the tree Figure 11 shows a tree with four layers or levels The Group by Directory adds the first layer and it is optional The second and third are by default and usually are the first and second layers in the Default grouping view The fourth level is optional and can be configured by the user as explained in section 4 1 2 Whenever a keyword is chosen for the additional grouping all files with an header that is fits and tfits which share the same value for that keyword are grouped together provided they already share the same higher level grouping In Figure 11 the extra level is def
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