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The following keywords are created by the telescope data acquisition system:
(from Mink et al, 2021, Appendix C, Table 6)

Keyword Sample Value Comment Description
SIMPLE T Fits standard file
BITPIX -32 Bits per pixel -32 = 4-byte floating point
NAXIS 2 Number of axes
NAXIS1 2681 Axis length dispersion axis
NAXIS2 1 Number of objects in file 1=spectrum, 2=sky+spectrum,3=sky
NAXIS3 4 Spectra in IRAF multispec file 1=spectrum, 2=sky+spectrum,3=sky
EXTEND F File may contain extensions
ORIGIN 'NOAO-IRAF FITS Image Kernel July 2003' FITS file originator
DATE '2013-03-18T19:29:11' Date FITS file was generated
IRAF-TLM '2013-03-18T19:42:34' Time of last modification
COMMENT FITS (Flexible Image Transport System) format is defined in 'Astronomy
COMMENT and Astrophysics',volume 376, page 359; bibcode: 2001A&A...376..3559H
OBJECT 'NGC4116' SET BY COMMENT FILE
NAMPS 1 Number of amplifiers read out for original 2D spectrum
DATE-OBS 2013-03-18 UT YYYY-MM-DD at start of exposure
RA '12:07:36.81' MEAN RA
DEC '+02:41:32.3' MEAN DEC
EPOCH 2000 MEAN EQUINOX
POSANGLE 90 Spectrograph position angle [prior to November 12, 2002]
ROTANGLE ' 90 Spectrograph position angle [after November 12, 2002]
FASTFOC '970     ' FAST spectrograph focus setting
RRA '12:07:42.1' REQUESTED RA
RDEC '+02:41:32.3' REQUESTED DEC
REPOCH 2000 REQUESTED EQUINOX
TRA '12:07:42.1 RA BY TELESCOPE
TDEC '+02:44:03.3 DEC BY TELESCOPE
TEPOCH 2000.000 EPOCH BY TELESCOPE
ST '11:06:11' Telescope Sidereal Time at start of exposure
HA '+02:19:08' Hour Angle hh:mm:ss at start of exposure
DOME 117 Dome azimuth angle in degrees
UT '06:31:30' UT HH:MM:SS AT START OF EXPOSURE
UTEND '07:01:30' UT HH:MM:SS AT END OF EXPOSURE
AIRMASS 1.16 AIR MASS BY TELESCOPE
ST '09:27:23' TELESCOPE SIDEREAL TIME AT END
EXPTIME 720.004 INTEGRATION TIME, SECONDS
GJDN 2456365.782292 GEOCENTRIC JULIAN DAY AT MIDDLE OF EXPOSURE
HJDN 2453795.75925 HELIOCENTRIC JULIAN DAY AT MIDDLE OF EXPOSURE
SITENAME 'flwo1' Observatory name = FLWO 1.5 m
SITELONG '+110:52:39.0' Observatory longitude in degrees west of 0 ddd:mm:ss
SITELAT '+31:40:51.4' Observatory latitude in degrees dd:mm:ss
SITEELEV 2320.0 Observatory elevation in meters
DETECTOR 'FAST3' Detector identifier
CCDSERIA 'STA520A SN4377' Chip ID
INSTRUME 'FAST ' Instrument name
DISKDIR /data/fast/2013.0313 Original raw directory with local date yyyy.mmdd
DISKFILE 81 File number in original raw directory
TELESCOP 'TILLINGHAST' 1.5 m (60 inch) telescope
EXPTIME 1800.000 Integration time in seconds
DARKTIME 1800.000 Total elapsed time in seconds
IMAGETYP OBJECT IRAF spectrum type (object flat comp bias dark)
CCDSUM 1 2 Binning of raw image X (dispersion) and Y (cross-dispersion) axes
BIN 2 Binning of cross-dispersion axis
LTM1_1 1.0000000 IRAF pixel/pixel in X
LTM2_2 1. IRAF pixel/pixel in Y
CCDSEC '[35:2715,1:161]' Actual detector image limits
GAIN 0.8000000 Read Gain(1), electrons per ADU, set by parameters
RDNOISE 8.6 Read Noise(1), electrons, set by parameters
RAMPROG0 'serial parallel skip 99 repeat 80 add 4 end skip 93 repeat 8'
RAMPROG0 'add 4 end'
OBSERVAT 'FLWO1 ' Observatory (= Whipple Observatory Ridge 60-inch)
DISPAXIS 1 Dispersion axis
IMAGETYP 'OBJECT ' IRAF TYPE KEY object, flat, bias, dark.
OBSERVER 'P BERLIND ' observer(s)
P.I. 'Huchra ' Principal Investigator Name
PROGRAM '#141 Mapping the Nearby Univserse ' Program Name
APERTURE '3 ' arcsec
DISPERSE '300 ' gratting (lines/mm)
TILTPOS '600 ' tilt position
LOGNAME 'perry ' LOGIN NAME
INSTRUME 'FAST '

The following keywords are added by the data reduction pipeline:
(from Mink et al, 2021, Appendix C, Table 7)

Keyword Sample Value Comment Description
RFN 20130313.0081 Observation sequence = yyyymmdd.nnnn
WCSDIM 3 Number of world coordinate system dimensions
WAT0_001 system = equispec IRAF multispec format
WAT1_001 'wtype-linear label=Wavelength units=angstroms' IRAF WCS
WAT2_001 'wtype-linear' IRAF WCS
TRIM Mar 18 15:12 Trim data section is [35:2715,1:161]
OVERSCAN Mar 18 15:12 Overscan section is [2:30,1:161] with mean = 716.1741
ZEROCOR Mar 18 15:12 Zero level correction image is zero
FIXPIX 'Mar 1 10:19 Bad pixel file is badpix4.pl'
CCDSEC '[5:2677,6:75]' Data section after image trimmed
CCDMEAN 155.4683 Mean value of pixels in CCD image
CCDMEANT 1048086765 Number of counts in CCD image
CCDPROC 'Mar 1 10:19 CCD processing done'
FLATCOR 'Mar 1 10:19 Flat field image is norm with scale=1'
DCLOG1 'Transform' Reference wavelength calibration spectrum
DC-FLAG 0 Wavelength axis is linear, not log wavelength
TRIM 'Mar 1 10:19 Trim data section is [5:2677,6:75]'
OVERSCAN 'Mar 1 10:19 Overscan section is [2695:2717,1:81] with mean=645.9997'
ZEROCOR 'Mar 1 10:19 Zero level correction image is zero'
CTYPE1 'LINEAR ' X-axis WCS is linear
CTYPE2 'LINEAR ' Y-axis WCS is linear
CRVAL1 3476.54223632812 WCS (wavelength) value at X-axis reference pixel
CRPIX1 1. X-axis WCS (wavelength) reference pixel
CD1_1 1.46894121170044 X-axis WCS units (Angstroms) per pixel
CD2_2 1. Y-axis WCS units (spectra) per pixel
HISTORY procdata.findspec 2.2a 28-Feb-2006 23:15 obj = 38:44
BANDID1 'spectrum - background fit, weights variance, clean yes'
BANDID2 'raw - background fit, weights none, clean no'
BANDID3 'background - background fit'
BANDID4 'sigma - background fit, weights variance, clean yes'
APNUM1 '1 0 64.00 119.00'
CTYPE3 'LINEAR '
CD3_3 1.
LTM3_3 1.
WAT3_001 'wtype=linear'
FINDOBJ '85:92' Cross-dispersion pixel range for object extraction
FINDBACK '65:80,96:111' Cross-dispersion pixel ranges for background extraction

The following keywords are added by RVSAO data analysis tasks:
(from Mink et al, 2021, Appendix C, Table 8)

Keyword Sample Value Comment Description
VELOCITY 1265.35069460358 Velocity in km s-1 = cz from emission line
Z 0.00422075500422317 Velocity as z
CZERR 300. Velocity error in km s-1 set from emission line
ZERR 8.83416159802586E-6 Velocity error in km s-1
VELQUAL Q Velocity quality Q = good ? = questionable X = bad
BCV 4.2293119430542 Solar system barycentric velocity correction
CZXC 1289.70966527454 Cross-correlation velocity = cz
ZXC 0.00430200777295808 Cross-correlation z
CZXCERR 2.64841539087617 Cross-correlation error
CZXCR 51.4057371762259 Cross-correlation R-value
BESTTEMP femtemp97.fits Best cross-correlation template
CZPARAMS 13 4096 1 5 20 250 500 0.05 No.temps xcor: bins zeropad filterx4 bellwindow
rvsao.xcsao parameters: number of templates, number of log-wavelength pixels, zpad flag, 4 filter limits, apodization
XCTEMP1 fabtemp97.fits 1317.375 34.757 6.7242 0.475 350.109 1316.788 0.000
XCTEMP2 ztemp.fits 1304.660 19.003 8.48857 0.469 237.782 1300.509 0.000 yes
XCTEMP3 femtemp97.fits 1289.710 2.648 51.4057 0.877 184.699 1285.354 0.000 no
XCTEMP4 fs2temp.fits 1281.685 28.899 6.66855 0.463 291.868 1277.337 0.000 yes
XCTEMP5 fglotemp.fits 1294.446 31.103 6.84486 0.458 319.406 1291.380 0.000 yes
XCTEMP6 fm32temp.fits 1295.454 32.659 6.87543 0.462 336.430 1292.184 0.000 yes
XCTEMP7 fn7331temp.fits 1262.144 48.538 6.40995 0.449 463.554 1257.691 0.000
XCTEMP8 eatemp.fits 1328.693 142.354 1.38256 0.098 495.571 1321.587 0.000 no
XCTEMP9 eltemp.fits 99085.439 292.865 1.71597 0.118 1093.522 99079.649 0.000
XCTEMP10 sptemp.fits 1304.153 6.535 23.2321 0.819 210.281 1271.864-28.010 no
XCTEMP11 m31_a_temp.fits 100184.771 379.495 1.10537 0.080 1304.335 37205.074
XCTEMP12 m31_f_temp.fits 99610.749 148.512 1.59509 0.100 497.927 15643.079 0.
XCTEMP13 m31_k_temp.fits 77365.998 123.226 1.73377 0.124 618.769 86365.812 0.
XCSAO rvsao.xcsao 2.8.2 18-Mar-2013 15:34 CZXC = 1289.71 R = 51.41
VELSET Velocity from 6730.815A S2 emission line
QPLOT rvsao.xcsao 2.8.218-Mar-2013 15:43 VELOCITY = 1265.35 Q = Q
COMMENT 19 blank lines
END



Note 1
The image coordinate system (Ic,Il) refers to the recorded image pixel array. The image array may include other information such as overscan and prescan. Thus the actual data pixels from the CCD may occupy only a region of the image. However the image coordinate system begins with (1,1) for the first pixel in the image. The first data pixel will begin with some coordinate (Ic1,Il1). The data pixels then increment by one for each "binned" pixel. As with the amplifier coordinate system the general linear coordinate transformation between the CCD and image coordinates is given by:
Ic = LTM1_1 * Cx + LTM1_2 * Cy + LTV1
Il = LTM2_1 * Cx + LTM2_2 * Cy + LTV2
Cx = ( LTM2_2 * (Ic - LTV1) - LTM1_2 * (Il - LTV2)) / (LTM1_1 * LTM2_2 - LTM1_2 * LTM2_1)
Cy = (-LTM2_1 * (Ic - LTV1) + LTM1_1 * (Il - LTV2)) / (LTM1_1 * LTM2_2 - LTM1_2 * LTM2_1)